A Date with Ghosts

WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHY?!?!? Trapped in a monastary by ghostly killer monks or something. How? Why? So badly acted and effected that it's almost physically painful. How many random girls are hiding in this monastary also?!?!? They pop out every 10 minutes like easter eggs. Something weird is going on with the splicing of the film or some such at 41:53 or so.....you can see typesetting across the leg of one girl. If you're just DYING to see.....nothing! Then this movie is for you!! Somehow the guy's ill fitting,ugly clothing just makes me angry. That shirt should be against the geneva convention. Terrible plot,bad acting,horrible cgi AND bad wardrobe. The movie crap quartet. Skip this stinker. It's too late for me,but you can save yourself!

As I have already wasted 70 minutes on this hideously acted, badly spliced together trash, I can just say this:

I hate trashing indie efforts because usually they are a good alternative to formula, mass-produced crap from Hollywood...but in this case, all it leaves me with is that I feel a hell of a lot better about my own short films now.

My hand-held camera work and respect for proper plots and links now look like A-list productions compared to this. I cannot believe I actually found this "movie" on IMDb!

Oh, come on. This isn't a movie. It isn't even a short. The handful of people who threw this together by walking around a churchyard for a while with a video camera in tow weren't even trying. You often can't hear what the participants are muttering, and when you do it's so ear-punishingly redundant and awkward that it makes you grateful for the scenes in which the dialogue cannot be understood.

I've seen hundreds of independent horror projects, but this one scrapes the bottom of the grave. There isn't a single effective moment or legitimate idea here. Just a few friends loitering in the dark and trying to look scared while the guy running the camera attempts (often unsuccessfully)to keep them in focus.

They can't even hit the 70-minute mark without cutting in every bit of meaningless outdoor footage (trees, footpaths, etc.) they could muster up.

An appalling, indifferently slapped-together insult to your intelligence.

Mansfield filmmaker, Jason Brown has always had a fascination with the supernatural and in "A Date with Ghosts", he has put together a 70 minute mini feature shot in Nottingham with great merits. I was lucky enough to see this film as a test screener on the internet in 2013.

A Date with Ghosts is well put together and the title sequence credits really stood out for me in their high looking production values. Jason has reportedly spent over 1K on this very ambitious horror film. The acting is good (i.e. lead actress) and the jump scare techniques were very well done and edited. There seem to be some unedited screen shots, but I assume this was to be fixed as Jason takes the film to festivals.

What impressed me is that things look higher in values in this feature. I hope it does well for him and Jason even has an acting role. The locations all look good in the country side and derelict church buildings added with matte and cgi techniques for shots that are worth seeing alone. Also, the high over-head tree shots are good, too. It also has some creepy looking ritual monk figures that terrorize the cast, mainly female.

Rating: 3.5 out 5 = Turn out the lights and dwell in indie horror from a hard working, Nottingham filmmaker. Horror/Indie fans should love it.

I don't know about ghosts, but I do know for a fact that film editors exist. Too bad this piece of trash didn't believe in an editor.

Seriously, this "film" is one of the most poorly constructed and badly filmed movie releases ever. A complete waste of time.