I'll say this first: I'm someone who absolutely LOVES found footage horrors, and when I do research and find a new one, I look into it further and/or try it. I had high hopes for this one when seeing the summary on Tubi, and I was so sorely disappointed (as is the case with many found footage movies these days, sadly).
This one did only a single thing right: looking like genuine found footage.
The rest of it was abysmal. I couldn't watch it through to the end and the only character I was able to tolerate was the psychic, who seemed to be the most professional and mature one of the group.
The cameraman and reporter constantly made immature jokes or comments like they were young children, and the reporter giggled at literally everything (I'm not overexaggerating, it's ridiculous how much she giggled, even during inappropriate times). She was the most immature one of the group, in my opinion. Not to mention, she hounded the graveyard caretaker with questions on a topic he said he wasn't comfortable talking about, then was jokingly passive aggressive about him behind his back when he left, calling him the 'town nutcase'. On top of that, her performance was amateur-level at best; She's a reporter, yet she's having to read off cards despite doing research beforehand as well as tripping over her own words and making awkward pauses in the middle of her sentences? I'm not sure if it was due to the actress being poorly talented or if the director wanted her to act the way she did, but she was the main reason I couldn't stand this movie.
On top of that, the landowner was a massive prick, telling them over the phone, supposedly, that he was fine with them staying the night and doing a story on the place, then meeting them and immediately doing a 180 with how he felt about it, giving literally no explanation as to why his feelings on the matter changed. He then proceeded to treat them all rudely with the excuse that the place wasn't haunted and that he was rich, so he could do whatever he wanted to. His entirety in the film consisted of him making rude comments, provoking the others into verbal fights, mocking them, and telling them to hurry it up and leave yet continuously interrupting their attempts to do so, prolonging their visit. Not to mention, the totally unnecessary fight between him and the reporter with her telling him she saw used condoms in another room, and he could go have fun with those, and him replying with 'Yeah, I'll bend you over'.... REALLY? Was something like that even remotely necessary???? It was absolutely poor taste, even for a movie this bad.
Young children would have been more mature than these people.
Even the paranormal activity of this film was poorly done and there was very little of it. And when it does happen near the very end of the film (after 3/4 of it being bickering, immature comments and repeated insults), it was extremely underwhelming and none of it made sense.
All in all, I feel lied to about this film after becoming excited about possibly finding a new one that was worth watching.
For anyone contemplating this movie, I wouldn't waste your time unless you're interested in the themes stated above.
This one did only a single thing right: looking like genuine found footage.
The rest of it was abysmal. I couldn't watch it through to the end and the only character I was able to tolerate was the psychic, who seemed to be the most professional and mature one of the group.
The cameraman and reporter constantly made immature jokes or comments like they were young children, and the reporter giggled at literally everything (I'm not overexaggerating, it's ridiculous how much she giggled, even during inappropriate times). She was the most immature one of the group, in my opinion. Not to mention, she hounded the graveyard caretaker with questions on a topic he said he wasn't comfortable talking about, then was jokingly passive aggressive about him behind his back when he left, calling him the 'town nutcase'. On top of that, her performance was amateur-level at best; She's a reporter, yet she's having to read off cards despite doing research beforehand as well as tripping over her own words and making awkward pauses in the middle of her sentences? I'm not sure if it was due to the actress being poorly talented or if the director wanted her to act the way she did, but she was the main reason I couldn't stand this movie.
On top of that, the landowner was a massive prick, telling them over the phone, supposedly, that he was fine with them staying the night and doing a story on the place, then meeting them and immediately doing a 180 with how he felt about it, giving literally no explanation as to why his feelings on the matter changed. He then proceeded to treat them all rudely with the excuse that the place wasn't haunted and that he was rich, so he could do whatever he wanted to. His entirety in the film consisted of him making rude comments, provoking the others into verbal fights, mocking them, and telling them to hurry it up and leave yet continuously interrupting their attempts to do so, prolonging their visit. Not to mention, the totally unnecessary fight between him and the reporter with her telling him she saw used condoms in another room, and he could go have fun with those, and him replying with 'Yeah, I'll bend you over'.... REALLY? Was something like that even remotely necessary???? It was absolutely poor taste, even for a movie this bad.
Young children would have been more mature than these people.
Even the paranormal activity of this film was poorly done and there was very little of it. And when it does happen near the very end of the film (after 3/4 of it being bickering, immature comments and repeated insults), it was extremely underwhelming and none of it made sense.
All in all, I feel lied to about this film after becoming excited about possibly finding a new one that was worth watching.
For anyone contemplating this movie, I wouldn't waste your time unless you're interested in the themes stated above.