reaseltbim This movie was recommended by one of my favorite youtuber reviewers but I really really regret watching this and wish I never bothered. I got annoyed by it. the movie is not even really a movie, it feels like a reality tv documentary but with a lot of stuff missing. they go from place to place but nothing really flows or makes sense. the characters interview people and i was actually much more interesting and i was more engaged in the interviews to the people and their haunts that i was in watching the "plot" of this movieI kinda wish this was just a regular documentary on haunted houses. because at least that would have been interesting.

chaos-rampant Nevermind the actual film, the idea is one of the most potent I've seen in some time.A group of friends set out in a van in search of horror, haunted house attractions scattered around rural America. It's the days leading up to Halloween so we can have a pervasive atmosphere of masks and monsters roaming the streets. I like that it's a glimpse outside the usual and tied to a larger fabric of make-believe.The idea is that we'll venture into these houses where horror is supposed to be controlled around us, the work of fiction, only to discover more slippery boundaries of truth. This would touch at the very essence of horror, exploiting the same perturbations that move viewers in both the actual houses and film; see, we know it's not real, but what to do when your body tells you otherwise?So nevermind that it's actors we see and scripted reactions. Some of the most potent footage here are from within these houses where we go in with a camera and a swirl of monsters lunges at us, staged but it comes alive. I'm guessing these are actual places that partnered with the filmmakers and this is what tantalized me going in; it would be at least in part an actual tour of that America that goes to pilgrimage in actual places.They manage to bungle this for my taste, the part where fiction blurs and we go to something that comes alive in the moment of watching.For one, they chose the "found footage" mode (silly name, largely the baggage of Blairwitch - it really means "someone is filming this now"). It's the most apt choice I've seen since Last Exorcism, but no one ever films a sense of place and passing time, a physical sense of journey; they waste it on lots of blathering around a camera so that it ends up feeling like an episode of cable TV. Indicative of the actual makers holding the camera I guess.And then there's the ending. This is where the staged scenarios in these attractions don't cut it any more as the characters push for more and more "real" stuff. Lo, there's rumor of a secret place that you can only reach by invitation. But once there, it's the most obviously staged part of the film, the complete opposite of where we were meant to be viewing-wise.So this is a miss, filmmakers with maybe the strongest idea of any of their peers this year but none of the tools of insight to cultivate it. They outline enough for me to imagine it in more intuitive hands so all in all I would have this over the next paranormal film.Someone has gone out with the urge for horror in mind (and it's our very urge to inhabit illusion that made us build these houses), thinking he knows illusion from real, but it begins to spill outside, perturbing reality. From a certain point on, the apparitions become aware of someone watching, aware inside the fiction, so conspire to stage the real thing as a cosmic prank that shatters lives.Watch The Funhouse, Hooper's film driven by the same instinct, a funhouse that extends from the actual place to haunt the whole film.

atinder The house October built 2015Not sure want to make of this , I thought it had a decent plot at first There some good haunted house scenes but when the really scary stuff happens to them Well it was not scary or it was just really odd and not in a good way .Most of time I was thinking it all a big hoax but it's wax not , I wish it Was.I don't understand why those peolpe were doing what they were doing I felt like I missed a part of a movie.Acting was just annoying 3 out of 10

Izzy I was excited going into this film, as I had only heard about the plot and it sounded interesting, like something that would get me excited for the Halloween season, and while it did that, it left a lot to be desired. I feel bad for over-analyzing this film when I saw it, because horror movies will have more flaws than other genres, especially 'found footage' style horror films. The plot is simple; A group of friends go on a road trip in search of the most extreme haunt attraction. They soon find what they were looking for, and things get dark fast. It was an interesting story, but unfortunately the sloppy writing made the film laughable. The acting is okay, but the characters are very cliché and impossible to relate to. The film didn't really establish personalities for any of them, they were pretty much all the same person. I need to feel for characters in horror movies, because it's more effective when bad things happen to them that way. But in this film, I didn't feel anything when the time came. In all honesty, this film was a big advertisement for participating haunt attractions that were featured. The "Blue Skull" thing however, does not exist. (to my knowledge) In the end, it's a fun film and it got me excited for the haunt season. I gave it a four out of IMDb's ten stars. It's a fun film to just have on while you're doing something else, or just to watch with friends. But if you're looking for a scary movie, this is not the way to go.