GhostWatcher

Crummy music,horrible acting and bad directing align themselves in a way that I could never have imagined to be possible. Scenes where a simple shot of two persons speaking to each other were clumsily "over- directed" by quick cutting back and forth between the two to the point where I was getting dizzy. What's even more pathetic is that even the makeup sucked in this movie. The ghost makeup made the actor appear as a demented version of a dude from Blue Man Group. The Elizabeth Dean character had so much blush applied in some scenes that you could swear the she had just been involved in a bitch- slapping session.Anyone who thinks this is even SOMEWHAT remotely watchable needs their head examined. This effort is so lame and unprofessional I was actually chuckling from the very beginning. I enjoy low budget pics but this stoops to an all-time low in cinema. Pure excrement. Only to be viewed with a trusty can of Lysol, yes, it stinks that bad.

After a Halloween on a Friday, Laura Kove (Jillian Byrnes) becomes agoraphobic. One year later she finds that her apartment is haunted. She searches in Internet and finds Elizabeth Dean (Jennifer Servary), a con ghost hunter, actually a stripper with a peepshow on line, offering her services and Laura and her best friend Nikki Brandt (Marianne Hayden) hire her to get rid off the fiend. Elizabeth investigates the past of Laura and discloses the truth of the mystery.

"Ghost Watcher" is so amateurish and flawed that becomes funny. It is the typical movie that you join your friends to make fun and laugh so ridiculous it is. I do not know how producers invested in this film with such terrible screenplay and cast. The story is horrible, the three lead characters are awful and their actions make no sense. Elizabeth, for example, is a slut that risks her life to help Laura, inclusive dying in the end, solves the murders of a serial killer in a couple of hours, in a absolute lack of coherence. Nikki killed and buried Malculm Dixon, but she accepts to go to the abandoned house in the night to show the corpse to Elizabeth after seeing the weird events in Laura's kitchen. And Laura is pure contradiction, hiring a stripper to hunt ghosts. If any actress of this flick reads my review, do not be upset with me, but the acting are simply awful in this movie. I do not intend to see "Ghost Watcher 2", therefore I hope to have the chance to see any of you in the future with better performances in another movie. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Após a Morte" ("After the Death")

Genuinely smart horror movie that could have, as has already been said, benefited by a larger budget. Still, it's nice to see there are people out there who still care enough about the craft to try to breathe some originality into it, and who realize "scary" doesn't always mean throwing buckets of exploding glass at the screen and screaming at the viewer "ARE YOU SCARED YET?!?!?ONE". Myself, I happened to enjoy this; Ghost Watcher is the sort of movie that can come back to haunt you after the lights go out. It feels like a novel, one that you could curl up with under the covers with a blanket, that unfortunately just didn't get all the attention/money/effects it needed to *really* shine. Still, for anyone looking for a good way to spend an evening over watching the parade of "Things Crash Through Windows and Then Stuff Blows Up" movies on the telly, I'd recommend this. And, as apparently the crew and the writer apparently check this now and again; keep at it, guys -- you've got talent. Look forward to seeing the next venture!

When I first put it on.. I was tempted to shut it off. It looks like it was filmed on a home video camera. But once you get past the actual look of it, and get into the story, you won't want to turn it off. It has a really good story that leads you to a rather creative ending, which most movies don't really have anymore. It's really going back to when scary movies actually had a story. Some of the effects are pretty good considering it's so low budget, and the actors themselves are alright.. no crappy over acting here. Some of it makes you laugh, some of it makes you jump and some of it makes you wonder where they got the inspiration. I would have loved to been on the set for the making of this film. All in all its pretty good, worth the rent. Or if your like me.. and a nut for B Movies..worth the purchase.

While this movie boasts quite a string of genuinely scary moments, it is essentially a collage of already successfully tested horror plots. Agoraphobic heroine, Serial killer, Ghost of serial killer, etc. It even has the obligatory paranormal investigator. Nothing stands out as truly original. Honestly, I've seen worse acting in supporting roles but not very often. The lead role was executed quite well. In fact, I would not be surprised to see this young lady do well in future movies. Again, it is quite scary at times and I suppose that's the point, eh? Also, the music was pretty good. Anyway, if you are a horror movie buff, then watch it just because.