Grave Encounters (2011)
That has to be worth an applause. We found this film on the Asda top DVD-chart and thought we'd give it a try. That was a mistake, it was only a waste of time and all the DVD is good for is as a frisbee disc.Grave Encounters was written and directed by "The Vicious Brothers" and when I saw that my sucksense started tingling. If someone doesn't want to put their name on something, but rather use something like "The Vicious Brothers", there has to be something wrong with it.
The plot is simple and could have been so much better. I won't go into details but here's the set up.
A production crew that works for a ghost hunting show gets a tip about a disused mental hospital that is supposedly haunted. They decide to lock themselves in and spend a night recording things. Mysterious paranormal activity starts and it rapidly gets worse.
(It's a good start and it gets you interested but it's been done before though, like everything else in this film, in for example 1408*.)
I have a feeling that the writers/directors were trying to stuff this film full of stuff from horror films that they like. Even though the base plot is simple and worth so much more than this film they manage to screw up royally. There's too many characters none of them really memorable and there's too many different "scary" ideas. The film is such a jumble of things and they're so poorly executed that I was laughing through long parts of it. I have to admit that there was one or two scenes that made me jump a little but those were cheap scares.
Is it worth watching then?
If you have nothing better to do and have watched every other horror ever made, then yes. If I ever had to chose between this film and any other horror ever made, I'd pick any other horror ever made seven days a week.
Grade:
*Horror film from 2007 based on a Stephen King short story and directed by Mikael Håfström.
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