Grave Encounters

This movie had potential and it worked for the first 1/2 hour or so. Then it rapidly disintegrated, it's the only word I can think of that fits. The beginning was genuinely creepy, the characters were terrified by relatively benign events, things moving by themselves etc. I thought it was a great idea. Show how REAL people would react to even minor activity. There was real suspense and I thought it was going to be pretty good. It takes so little to cause so much terror in real life. They should have run with that idea. Then... it completely falls apart. They go for the big stuff. I'm sorry but when they change the rules, like they did here, violating all of the laws of physics and literally making anything possible it simply becomes "magic". Once a film is at the "magic" level it becomes a simple fantasy with no connection to reality and the fear vanishes instantly. There's no way I can relate to what's going on any more than I can relate to a movie like Hellraiser. If literally anything can happen then there's no real suspense, it's just a matter of finding out the details of the story and seeing how it ends. I'm not even going to touch the "forever" batteries in the cameras and computers. Reminded me of the infinite repeating guns in the old westerns. All in all a real disappointment for a movie that could have been so much more and a fresh new look at an old idea.

The executive producer Jerry Hartfield (Ben Wilkinson) of a video production company in California presents the Episode 6 – "The Haunted Asylum" of the reality show "Grave Encounters". He advises that the episode has not been edited. The director Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and his team of paranormal investigators formed by Sasha Parker (Ashleigh Gryzko), Matt White (Juan Riedinger), Houston Gray (Mackenzie Gray) and T.C Gibson (Merwin Mondesir) go to the Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital to spend the night locked down inside the haunted place. They schedule with the resident caretaker to release them on the next morning. But time seems to be different in the evil place. Sooner they learn that the building is a labyrinth and they can not find how to leave the spot. Further, they are frightened by fiends and they give signs of insanity. "Grave Encounters" is another sub-product of "Paranormal Activity", which seems to be the cheapest way to make a horror movie. There are two or three scenes that really scare the viewer, but it is not enough to save "Grave Encounters" . My vote is four. Title (Brazil): "Fenômenos Paranormais" ("Paranormal Phenomena")

Absolutely awful, extremely wooded acting, and so predictable. The main annoyance apart from the acting and plot is the constant use of the F word, which must be used about over 150 times. It's not a film it's supposed to be real, reality team filming potential ghosts in a mental hospital so why would they F so much? It would take ages to edit if it, if it were for real, and cost so much more money. The members of the team are supposed to educated, professional doing a job which they will present to the public. I cannot believe American or Canadians swear so much and constantly, and so many of them. To experience this in the UK you would have to be with a group of uneducated, criminal types youths in the very worst part of the country. Whilst typing this reviiew I have counted 43 F words in approx 6 minutes.

Okay well, after watching many of these films with the typical hand-held camera style I can be confident in saying that this is probably one of, if not the worst I have seen. Firstly it's a stereotypical setting held within a mental asylum, although very typical it can be a great plot line in some cases unfortunately in this it was not. The movie was cram packed full of highly suspenseful scenes which at the climax of the build up ended with showing the viewer absolutely nothing, and somehow after the 'nothing' that happened everyone seems to run away screaming like they saw the ghost of Vincent price himself. These films are so overplayed and have been turned into something more of comedy rather than fear. A window opens here and a door slams there, it has been done before. There ate never ending scenes of sleeping, screaming, crying and loud noises and shaky camera work. SPOILER this is probably the worst bit , all of a sudden the door of which they entered the asylum is now a meaningless entry door to yet ANOTHER endless abandoned hallway, so now the whole asylum is a labyrinth, soon after this everyone begins to go insane slowly but surely. And to top of this wonderful film when the frontman is the only person inevitably left he kills a rat with a metal pole and eats it in front of the camera, soon after the gracious scene, the most feared people from the asylums past, the doctors who performed the lobotomies on the patients all of a sudden show up and lobotomise our very brave and cocky frontman , THE END! Okay so, in a nutshell do not bother with this Whatsoever it's a waste of time and quite frankly both me and my girlfriend feel like ringing our box office provider and complaining that not only we would like our money back but as well as that why this atrocity is even featured on their box office.