jmbwithcats I have liked films by Ted Nicolaou in the past, but this will not rank as one of them.I give this this movie one star - strictly on the fact that they told the real New Orleans story of Madame LaLaurie.Watching the Blair Witch rip-off "The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)" and this movie is just so bad it's laughable. One guy walks around saying "I love the ghosts" to stay positive, a girl is a total basket case the entire time, at one point she exclaims, "Omg a dead bird! and the other girl asks, "How dead is it?" All the actors are terrible, and the screenplay is atrocious. I think the only good thing I can say about this movie is, nope I got nothing.Every thing the characters did in The St Francisville Experiment contradicted everything else they did or said at each moment... they are introduced as serious investigator friends, but it becomes clear in the first scene in the house they don't know each other at all and are complete amateurs, then one says to share all their feelings, so the one girl says a prayer by herself for herself which suddenly everyone is okay with, then they say as long as we stick together we should be able to handle this, so what do they do? They split up to go cleanse the house, all the rooms simultaneously... This movie was like that contradiction poem we heard as little kids, the one that goes... admission is free pay at the door, grab a chair and sit on the floor... this was the absolute contradiction haunting movie.The climax itself had such potential, but just left me feeling upset.Spoilers Ahead ---------------------------------------------- So many clichés and contradictions in this film, from the totally healthy cat that jumps out of an Armoire, a falling chandelier, non-cohesive emotions from scene to scene, saying lets stick together because that's how we'll be successful here, then splitting up, saying lets share all of our emotions so one girl prays by herself? The ending has one room shaking, an arm reaches for one girl, that was dull, another gets dragged, they find the guy who was in the attic, chained in the basement hidden medical room, and Ryan tied to a table? The only ghost you see is a bit of mist that quickly dissipates....Episodes of Ghost Adventures are scarier than this movie.I cannot recommend this movie to anyone.1/10

trnjamesbond As I watched this film, it's very believable, except for the chick that looks like Minni Driver, Madison Charap, her acting is so crappy, I can't stand her stupid big fat jaw, rambling on about the fiery white light,this chick has got to go. The character that is in control of the whole experiment is totally believable, he reminds me of the Paul character in Friday the 13th part 2, a very strong leader, and the camera man in the movie is also strong along with the girl with being afraid of her own shadow, (Ryan Larson). I love this film for what it is, and consider it better,and more productive than Blair Witch by far.Blair Witch is lame compared to this movie, at least you get to see some kind of paranormal activity, instead of hearing some stupid scratching at the side's of a camping tent with no visuals at all. Don't get me wrong I like Blair Witch as it is a new documentary style ghost movie, but this movie seems to engross me a little more. Also I do love the wisecrack, when Paul is going up the stairs with the crew and he turns around and says "Did you see Blair Witch?" I look at that statement as a tribute to the original documentary style ghost film, except this is a more evolved version of that film.The chair flying across the attic was awesome. This was a well put together movie,except for the fact that Madison Charap's character is the most annoying and stupid part of this film, the character she plays is so see through, and cliché. This, like I said is the only part of the film that is wrong.I love the cold eerie feeling that you get from the end of the film of the torture chamber in the basement. You can almost feel the cold draft from the basement. Then the final shot of the ghost like fog in that torture room. This totally completes the film. In the end, I love the atmosphere, and also the technique, like I said, Madison and the cheesy white light talk had to go. But I enjoy it more than Blair Witch, to bad it didn't get a worldwide theatre release.Bravo, to all the directors and production companies of this film, you took something that was popular and made it better, I love that. In the end I must say, you always have films that stun your senses, that's what it's all about, there's always people out there saying "Oh they stole from that other popular film!" Well I say that's just called evolution. You wouldn't have "The Silence of the Lambs" without "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", which all evolved from the murders of Serial Killer Ed Gein, which also spawned the film Psycho.This makes you think, doesn't it?

andreygrachev Ted Nicolaou made a lot of great horror and fantasy films. I am looking for all his films to see. I could not find this one for 3 year, until I unexpectedly found it in youtube. To tell the truth I wanted to see more ghosts and less talks here. It looks like in 1999-2001 Ted had a crisis , maybe in money. His features of this time look more like real low budget thrash z garbage movies. But I do not claim him to be a bad director this time . Everything happens. The ending has some nice creepy details and suspense but the whole film was long dull dialogues .only for real Ted's fans.www.myspace.com/neizvestnostlab

chillaaxcali Okay so actually I probably know more about this movie then all of you do reason for that is is that Tim Thopmson(Timothy Baldini) is my brother. He became good friends with the team leader i cant recall his name and that all of the events in the movie were fake, except for one. The part where they go up to the top of the attic and see the chair get flipped over is actually real. Reason this is, is that the mechanics used to pull back that chair at that speed would have made the hydraulics screaming. When i say hydraulics im reffering to thos little mechanical boxes they carry around. Because in real life the Team leader i think his name is troy is an engineer, and works with those sort of things... Hence his attitude when my brothers suggests he stay up in the attic and he freaks out because he knows its really real.