Have you ever watched Ghost Adventures? If so, you've seen Grave Encounters. The difference? Budget and special effects. While Ghost Adventures has no effects, Grave Encounters has plenty, some good, some bad, but they like to show them off.
We follow our four paranormal investigators and a "psychic" on their lock down in the Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital where they are to spend eight hours locked inside the building looking for evidence of paranormal activity.
Initially they go around with people who have experienced things, grounds keepers, kids that have partied their, a guy that's supposed to be security but failed to keeps the aforementioned kids from said parties. They point out spots that have activity and talk about their experiences. Then the fun begins.
Lock down time. The crew shows that they are not in this because they believe in it, right away we know its all about entertainment and the money. They walk around taping the place only because they want to make another episode, another buck. But after things start actually happening they show their true colors and turn chicken.
Breaking through the entrance door and finding only a long hallway the crew begins to freak out. The building is shifting around them. They realize that the sun should have been up by that time, yet it is still dark outside. They were trapped.
They start wandering around trying to find another exit.
The happenings get more and more frequent, growing stronger and stronger. From moving wheelchairs and closing doors, building to deranged mutilated patients and disembodied arms popping out of walls and ceilings.Slowly, the members of the crew begin to get picked off in various ways. Hit by unseen forces, blood baths, falling down an elevator shaft, disappearing in a mist.
There are a million and one different effects on display and I think that is the one downfall of this movie. Instead of focusing on one type of haunting, they try them all. It just fails to build anything solid.
All in all, its got some good tense moments and has some good ideas, it just gets a little scatterbrained. Also, I love how it makes fun of Ghost Adventures, the "host" character needed to be more roid rage though.
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