Dark Vision

I don't understand some of the poor reviews. Dark Vision ins't that bad, it's no masterpiece but it's still entertaining. The story is coherent and the film is well shot. The locations are very creepy and the music adds to the overall atmosphere. The acting from the cast is good although the whole putting people under was a bit much. The Mind-Full host was suitably awful and has no problem putting his crew into danger to further his own career. It's a story we have seen before, but it's well told here.

It's not a great found footage movie, but I have seen so much worse. Some of the special effects are pretty cheap, but overall there are some effective scares and it does build up a pretty ominous atmosphere. It's not a movie that will stay in your memory for a long time, but it's an okay watch.

There is more in the darkness than you know...

Mind-full host Spencer Knights puts his crew in peril whilst trying to win his own series as part of the paranormal competition Dark Vision.

Find out what manifestations lay in wait for his team inside Baylock's Folly - a place with a dark history and possibly a darker present.

Who is it's mysterious caretaker Clem and what are the twisted motivations of the producers at the "Dark Vision Hub"?

Step into the darkness and find the answers in this new wave Gothic horror from Stray Spark productions.

It's too bad there is no way to check the reviews here on IMDb. The one good review is from a guy who talks about seeing lots of movies and this is great, except he's only reviewed THIS movie!!!

In other words, he worked on the film.

It's an atrocity. Boring, stiffly acted, poorly written and amateurishly directed.

Too bad because the sets are cool enough to have worked well with a crew who had talent.

It feels more like a really bad TV show than a movie.The blonde with the big ones should have done a full frontal and I'd have given it 2 stars instead of one.

I watched this movie without any expectations, there were no reviews to base it off or at least not to go into the film with any preconceptions. From the very first scene to the last, the acting is awful, cheesy, unconvincing and dull.

A horror movie for me, needs to be scary and tense, this film was neither. I never jumped or found myself dreading the next scene, instead I was wishing the torment would end. At this point, I was ready to scoop out my eyes and tear out my cochlear, so the torment would end.

I would not recommend this film to anyone. It was terrible.. Truly terrible.

In this age of crowd-funding sites and easily accessible technology, almost anyone can become a filmmaker if they put their mind to it; unfortunately, not everyone is a Scorsese or a Spielberg. When my daughter told me that she works with someone who had written and starred in a horror film, I just had to check it out, but I wasn't expecting greatness. However, while Dark Vision is unlikely to make anyone's Top 10 scary movie list, it wasn't nearly as bad as I had imagined: the performances are more than adequate, the direction is competent, and there's a sense of fun to the whole thing that carries the viewer quite painlessly to the end.

The basic premise is fairly simple: paranormal webcast presenter Spencer Knights (Bernie Hodges) hopes to win a contest by filming at a gothic folly, supposedly haunted by the spirit of murderous plague doctor Baylock. The team enter the creepy catacombs located under the building, where Spencer unwittingly releases the plague doctor from purgatory. The caretaker of the folly, witchcraft scholar Clem (Judith Haley, who could be Britain's answer to Lin Shaye), steps in to help defeat the evil.

The first half of the film is fairly tongue-in-cheek -- a parody of TV shows like Most Haunted or Ghost Watch -- with the cast giving suitably broad performances, while the second part is played much straighter, the focus on the horror. This shift in tone is handled well by director Darren Flaxstone and is not as jarring as it sounds, however some plot elements do become lost in the mix leading to a degree of confusion: What is Dark Vision Hub (the organisation behind the contest) and what do they hope to gain by releasing the evil plague doctor? What is the significance of the tiny doll with bells attached to it? What are those floating orbs of light that lead production assistant Jo (Suzie Latham) to safety? Who is the spectral girl who communicates with the survivors via a phone app? While I don't need everything spelled out for me, I felt that these aspects of the script would have benefited from a little more exposition.

In terms of horror, the superb subterranean catacombs, with their many shadowy nooks and crannies, allow for plenty of suspense and some effective jump scares, but the violence is fairly restrained -- as a card-carrying gorehound, I had hoped for a little more in the way of blood and guts once the plague doctor got to work, but budget limitations no doubt prevented this. By way of recompense, there is a sex scene that delivers some nudity -- totally gratuitous, just as it should be, and cheaper to film than special make-up effects sequences!

DARK VISION is another "found footage" horror film. This time, a team of paranormal investigators, led by their buffoonish host, Spencer Knights (Bernie Hodges), are in a competition with other such groups in a bid to get their own reality show.

Knights and his crew enter the infamous "Baylock's Folly", a castle built over a monastery with a hideous secret. If this intrepid gaggle of ghostbusters can survive the night, they could become the next big thing in terror TV!

Enter Clem (Judith Haley) the caretaker, who definitely has a few secrets of her own.

Starting out as more of a comedy, the mood turns more serious when the castle's diabolical namesake shows up for the festivities. Fun from beginning to end, this movie contains many moments of memorably ghoulish goings-on.

However, if this sort of film has already worn out its welcome with you, this may only add to the misery...