True terror needs at least some authenticity. That's perhaps too much to ask of a faked movie about a faked reality show that still can't scare up a fresh idea.
Grave Encounters
Canada · 2011
Rated R · 1h 33m
Director Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz
Starring Sean Rogerson, Juan Riedinger, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray
Genre Thriller, Horror
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A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The picture's creepiness factor is sufficient to rate this a notch above genre average.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
As the uniformly annoying characters stumble around, screaming and cursing, we don't give a hoot for their survival. Quite the reverse: we're counting the minutes until the asylum's ghostly inhabitants silence them for good.
Slant Magazine by Nick Schager
Twelve long years after "The Blair Witch Project" pushed the first-person-POV subgenre to horror's forefront, and four years after [Rec] expertly refined the formula, Grave Encounters can't even pretend to be anything other than hopelessly derivative.
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