aubie84
You have a choice in life- Get attention by hard work, seek positivity, overcome challenge, achieve life satisfaction... Or- This, needing attention by shock, negative posturing, and wallering in weird, base-need mindlessness- This film is an attempt at the latter and, like cult member insecurity behavior, they take peoples money to scare them as if they are now important, accepted and part of this club, new fetish, or documentary... Waste of time- Transparent in the intent, and insults the minds of productive, thinking humans. Here, sign my paper. Pay me your money... Boo- thanks. The 'scary' part only -is that people actually buy into it and can't think two steps ahead. Go to a haunted house?... Watch a horror flick?... See a Dominatrix?... but This is pathetic- I really tried, I strained even to get any smidge of value or understanding- but No- sad to watch distorted people with weak minds pretending to want to belong- Not sure which is more sad to watch- the dweebs (actors) paying to have weirdos scare them... Or the BOut guys taking these peoples money, filming a shake cam videos, and exploiting these troubled, psyche-dim participants- to make more money selling the silly process as a documentary? Too close to call-
Michael Ledo
This is one of those films that you either hate or took part in making it. The film was neither scary nor shocking but most of it was black and white. People pay to submerge themselves in a tailored made frightening experience and become addicted to it. They make people get naked, watch films, be in the dark, a box, and put their hand over their face. Half the film is people talking in the abstract about their experience. Real torture is sitting through it.Guide: F-word, nudity.
guitardawson
This movie is boring as hell. There is nothing interesting about it at all. The "torture" scenes are like tickle fights compared to most movies in the genre. I get the premise of the movie, it's just not good. The attempt at realism is somewhat believable, but it's just not entertaining. Not scary, not horrifying, not interesting. This film could have been great if they had taken it more in the horror direction. It felt like they wanted it to be a horror movie, but were too afraid to go there. It was one of those flicks that seems like it will get good at any moment, but never makes it. It's worse than a bad B movie because I couldn't turn it off within the first five minutes. As a matter of fact, I'm not wasting any more of my life on this abortion. You have been warned.
Ryan Manley
The film is very well made. This director knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat and take you deep into the minds of the people involved in the documentary. I happen to know about the haunt, so the film didn't really scare me, but if you haven't heard of Blackout, just watch the movie and you will be shocked. It is 100% real, and the documentary is very well made. The surprising thing about the documentary, isn't even necessarily the few glimpses that you see of the haunt. It is the people who go through it and let it become and addiction... basically an obsession. Blackout really knows how to get into people's heads. They are very good at it! I loved it!
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