The Movie Diorama Pseudo-documentaries can be an interesting narrative structure to convey a story. It automatically heightens the realism and enables creative use of camera placement, whether it be interviews or handheld footage. Justifying the utilisation of this structure fully depends on the subject matter, it has to be captivating enough to make you want to know more and pay attention to the interviews. This however, was utterly boring and far too predictable. Chronicling the events of an institute, hoping to prove supernatural psychic abilities exist, and how they deal with their most proficient case study which may turn out to be more paranormal than first anticipated. It's a horror, it's visible on the poster and included in the trailer, so it comes as no spoiler that Judith, the case in question, is actually possessed. Independently written and directed by Sparling, it's a shame he follows typical horror tropes and conformities by substituting an intelligent concept for an uninspired plot. Demonic possessions are practically in every horror film of the last decade, they are always depicted similarly and thus consequently become predictable. Exploring the abilities of telekinesis, pyrokinesis and other psychic abnormalities in itself makes for a frightening watch. Sparling already had the foundations laid out. Yet, he places lethargic bricks, one after the other, and cements them with an utterly boring mixture. This really was a tedious experience with very little happening on screen. The security cameras, considering this was supposed to be in the early 70s, were so advanced that they were able to capture audio to precisely inject loud jump scares. Really? You're not fooling anyone. The documentarian format serves no purpose aside from an interesting segment regarding the military desiring to weaponise Judith. However, this is immediately negated when they decide to invite the local priest over for an exorcism. Yes, I'm done. "Boringly dull and fundamentally uninteresting", put that in your documentary!

Leon Smoothy It surprises me the low average rate this movie has. The multitude of films out there that's not even watchable to the end about similar subjects are huge, yet many has got a higher rating. I don't know if the crowd watching this "low/middle-budget" film are expecting more blood and guts or what? This is quite a scary movie in the way that it deals with a subject actually practiced on a large scale by the CIA in the late 60-mid 70's. It's no fiction, Clinton even apologized for "the hundreds of thousands of civilians, mental patients, prisoners and military personnel abused by the government's in experiments" (among other projects the s.c "MK-ULTRA"). There is a lot of lies flying around the net about these experiments, but what makes this movie interesting is that even Reagan admitted to consulting mediums and (I don't really know the American term for it) "far-seers", people who claimed they could see Soviet activity from USA through their minds, and had used it for his decision-making. That's more than a bit worrying, and it's basically what this movie deals with.It's a well made movie, scary for those knowing what dealing with the occult from a "scientific" point of view (or any other) could result in. The actors all do a credible job, and it deserves being watched. One of the better movies on this subject made.

Paul Magne Haakonsen I didn't know about this movie prior to coming across it by sheer random luck. I read the synopsis and it did seem adequate. So I sat down to watch "The Atticus Institute".But I must admit that I lost interest fairly quickly into the movie. Why? Well, simply because the storyline failed to captivate, and the characters in the movie weren't particularly interesting or detailed.And the whole documentary-style to the movie didn't really appeal to me either. I am sure that some will enjoy the style in which the movie is filmed and set up, but it just didn't sit well with me."The Atticus Institute" just never took off. It started out okay, but then it just thrummed into a monotone pace and never gained momentum.As for the acting, well that was actually what worked in favor of the movie, but it was nowhere enough to lift up the movie or salvage the movie as it spiraled off course.My interest quickly wandered to my phone while watching "The Atticus Institute", and it never fully managed to lure me back. This was a rather boring movie and one that will be very quickly forgotten. A dull movie with an equally dull storyline. Don't waste your time or money on this movie.

Seth_Rogue_One I don't really know what the point of this movie was.It's not scary at all and it's made as a faux documentary style but all the footage of course is fake and all the people interviewed are actors, William Mapother off 'Lost' fame with a very recognisable face plays one of the psychologists maybe if they would have gone with people who weren't as famous it would have worked a little better.But on the other hand there are plenty of faux documentaries that does work so it's not all just that, it's just really boring.I don't really know what more to say about this movie cause there's really nothing to say, a real big bore of a movie.