•
Rating:
"No, damn, a documentary film, but the guy said what we're about to see isn't a film..."
"No, damn it, it's really a docu-film, I've had enough of REC and Paranormal Activity (though the second one was much better), the camera moves erratically, in the end I'll have a headache... And I can't stand docu-films, well, I'm screwed now..."
"Man, these guys act so badly, this looks like a total letdown, with shaky camera, terrible actors, and elephantine slowness."
Abandoned psychiatric hospital at Collingwood, where, as we know, patients weren't treated with the due respect that medicine reserves for those who suffer.. They are "inconvenient", a shame to show in family, destined to be institutionalized, forgotten, and turned into slaughterhouse guinea pigs for science, lobotomized by a madman, the cheerful Dr. Friedkin who was then amicably stabbed by a group of patients who managed to evade the place's security.
A TV crew from a well-known paranormal phenomena program, led by a certain Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson), seeks to shed light on the mystery surrounding the structure and decides to spend the night "sealed" inside the building with cameras and equipment to detect anything imperceptible to the limited human senses.
The film starts slowly, but over time it manages to capture the viewer's attention, piquing interest in what is truly evil and demonic within the various wards of this gigantic "monster". In the end, everything seems to make no sense, including space and time, dragging the protagonists into a deadly spiral with no way out..
All perhaps already seen, with the docu-film idea possibly exploited to the bone, but this work by the Vicious brothers is enjoyable and offers a few chills even with techniques and effects that are nothing new. Although for a substantial first part there is almost nothing significant in terms of anxiety, except for jumps relying on sound and usual things moving for no apparent reason, viewers are then rewarded in the second half of the film, where effects are not spared to offer a final ride between spiritual, splatter, and a rather disgusting suggestive scene.
Hunger, you know, plays nasty tricks..
"The doctor said I'm better now, I can finally go home.. That's all, from ESP - Paranormal Phenomena"..
Darkness..
Loading comments slowly
