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The idea sounded very interesting and creative, so there was enough to make one want to see it. The cover looked quite eerie. So saw 'The House on Mansfield Street' with genuine interest and wanting to at least sort of like it even if it had many problems.

Seeing it, well 'The House on Mansfield Street' certainly did have many problems and it is pretty much exactly the same feelings had when watching a few other films recently. The bad news was that there was not an awful lot good, let alone great, about it, so it was difficult for me to sort of like it, the little that's good being far overshadowed by the bad. Having prepared myself to do that, that was disappointing. Not a terrible film or without redeeming qualities, and there is far worse out there of the genre and overall. Liked the concept for 'The House on Mansfield Street', despite it being found footage which always makes me feel nervous, the execution was just wanting.

'The House on Mansfield Street' at least didn't insult my intelligence. It at least didn't make me angry watching it. Despite giving it a relatively low score and negative review, it even didn't make me regret watching it altogether.

It started off quite promisingly in an unsettling sort of way.

Setting was quite spooky at times as was the lighting.

Unfortunately, 'The House on Mansfield Street' did lack tension and suspense and the infrequent creepiness was never that eerie and rather obvious. The script is stilted and very repetitive while the direction tends to be static and pedestrian. Even for the very minimal budget, 'The House on Mansfield Street' looked as though it was made in a rush and it shows in its cheap look. The acting reeks of inexperience.

Was let down by the story. Conceptually interesting and wasn't too bad starting, at least too there actually was one, but the dull pace, due to some very uneventful stretches in particularly the middle, and the muddled way it was structured, meaning things didn't make sense, cheapened things. The characters are flimsily developed and bland even though the actors do their best. It can feel vague and while nothing is intelligence insulting there is both ridiculousness and trying to take it too seriously.

Overall, well intentioned but weak. 3/10 Bethany Cox

I knew from the start it wouldn't be a masterpiece. This movie looked like another copy of Paranormal Activity and that's exactly what it was, which I have to admit, is one of my guilty pleasures.

Contrary to all the bad reviews, I think it's actually not that bad. Acting is decent, so is directing. The only problem is the story, it starts well and there are a few good ideas along the way, but it lacks refinement and the ending is disappointing. The author should have spent more time on the script.

That being said, making that movie with only a few hundred pounds and basically no one is pretty impressive. It may look easy but it's not.

Slow. The film equivalent of watching paint dry. "There's that noise again", Ya don't say. I appreciate what the filmmakers tried to to with basically no budget but the end result is predictable and bland. Pass this "house" up.

-2 Boring but short thankfully.

-1 Ending is no payoff. Story is silly and not original at all.

With my having a lust for these types of films and rapidly running out of them on netflick or amazonprime, I am eager to watch what ever comes out. This one had the audacity to be British.

the one thing I love above all else in these types of films is subtlety. It's even better if it's so subtle as to leave it into question as to whether the events are even paranormal. my absolute favorite of this genre is "Leaving DC", also on amazonprime, in which the sole interactions at the start amount to little more than the sounds of someone chopping wood before escalating ever so slightly over time.

this film almost blows its load rather early, with a rather clear-cut revelation on film early on that threatens to remove all the subtlety of the "haunting". Thankfully the film moves on from it with more toned down occurrences, but it remains a glaring event that makes it pretty clear even in-universe what is happening despite the protagonist's attempts to just ignore it.

From there, it goes on with its usual game of footsteps and setting off motion-activated cameras, with only one major deviation from this. The mood was right and the protagonist was not thoroughly unlikeable and so this was becoming fun to watch.

when it came time to end, it lost all its subtlety and mystique, going for a hackneyed ending marked by a plot twist that they themselves spoiled like 3 scenes earlier.

A terrible "film"... not worth the time. The fact the "ghost" is wearing a hoody is beyond a joke. Awkward acting and pointless plot. Do not bother!!

Reportedly made on a budget of a few hundred GBP which would mean only a fool would expect anything approaching big studio quality. Richard Mansfield has gathered a cult following through his excellent adaptations of the ghost stories of MR James' (and others) so my expectations were slightly raised. What I found was a well made, well-paced found footage film , which while suffering from some of the tropes which so plague the genre (shaky camera, electrical interference etc), still came out as a pleasing effort overall. The story was solid enough, the production polished, the acting reasonably good, and well blended together. Mansfield has produced a film which without breaking any boundaries, entertains and keeps the viewer guessing, without totally flummoxing them, until the rather sudden ending. I felt another ten-twenty minutes to pad out the story , or back story if there was one, could have pushed the film further. All-in-all this production has made me look forward to more of his content in the future.

There are a few bad reviews on here and they have prompted me to do my first review on IMDb as they bug me a little.

In the 'film budget' on IMDb it says this was made for £300 (just over $400). That's nothing and for the cost of the film I think this is worth 7 stars for the film work, effects and story.

Nice U.K. 'found footage' film with a good and different story and well worth a watch if you are in to this style.

I would be interested to see what the writer/main actor could do with a bigger budget.

THE HOUSE ON MANSFIELD tells a simple story: Nick has just moved to the Nottingham/Sherwood area and soon after he begins to increasingly notice strange phenomena in his cottage. Might his neighbor Emma have something to do with this?

Fans of slow-burn found footage movies might actually like this. But essentially remaking PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (2007) failed to impress me. There was a bit of innovation with the extensive use of split screens, but because they were not used for any discernible purpose, it fell flat. Cinematic devices are only effective if they are used in the service of a well-chosen purpose.

To give an example, one effective use of the split screen could have been to increase the creep factor: say, he is investigating noises, and one split screen shows what he sees and the other shows his face. The next moment, the first split screen shows something that captures his and our attention in front of him, while the other split screen shows a threat slowly approaching him from behind. We see it, but he doesn't. This would be the found footage version of the trope of approaching danger missed by the unaware character.

This is a slow-paced movie, and especially in the first half, the pace is glacial. The second half picks up a little, but not much. The protagonist is so dismissive of the obvious paranormal events which he not only witnesses but actually records on his camera that it starts to become annoyingly unrealistic. Most people would freak out way before he does. He also seems strangely passive in the face of an increasingly menacing threat. As a character, he is drawn neither realistically nor well.

Another shortcoming to me was that the story did not even use any local legend; I would have thought that the area, famous for Robin Hood and medieval history, would have been a rich source, and these could have helped, for example, with building atmosphere and making sense out of why the events in the movie occur.

There is a small twist at the very end, but it leaves you pretty much just as baffled as before. Without a mythology, explanation, rhyme or reason, it is very hard to make a good or at least satisfying found footage horror movie.

The director evidently created a series of these "Haunted in Sherwood" movies, which I have not seen. By cross-referencing them to each other, he could build up a universe with its own mythology, and thereby avoid one substantial lack of this movie.

Seriously, who was the idiot that decided showing half the movie In split/tri screen was a good idea? It wasn't. Not only is the movie bad, but the story is stupid the main actor is terrible. Please for the sake of the art, don't ever try making a movie again.

The only thing that sets this no-budget found footage film apart from the rest is the use of multiple camera angles shown at once. Unfortunately, even that becomes grating after a while. The rest of the plot and the spooky bits. are nothing you haven't seen done better in other films.

Not to mention, the pacing is incredibly dull and there a long shots of literally nothing before something starts to happen. And when things do happen, they are poorly executed and not in the least bit scary. Even the main actor doesn't seem all that scared by what's happening. The way he reacts (or more accurately doesn't react) is like that of a lifeless potato.

Also, you can see the twist coming from the very beginning of the film.

I love low-budget FF but this was just a waste of time. Skip it.

Myself and my partner fancied watching something scary last night and stumbled across this 'gem'.

So we both liked the idea of the paranormal element and the found footage premise, so gave it a go.

First off, the main character Nick is the most annoying 'pick me' man I've ever seen on screen (I may have also taken an immediate dislike to him because he looked and behaved like my ex) but every major thing that happens in this, he reacts to in a way that wouldn't make any sense in any real setting? The man will stumble across something harrowing and just react with gentle surprise and confused nonchalance.

The pacing in this film is kind of iffy too, and it doesn't necessarily draw you in to keep watching.

The ending is also kind of forced upon you in a very anticlimactic fashion, but at least it meant this particular piece of media had come to a close.

I actually don't understand the hate for this film, granted it wasn't amazing but it kept my interest for the whole time. The main actor was OK, the woman not so good and they seemed really awkward and unnatural together, but not the worst acting I've ever seen. I do like British horror though so maybe I'm biased. Don't know what else to say really but I have to add more characters before it will let me save this review which is irritating. Apparently this was made on a 500 quid budget which actually made me up my rating from a 6 to a 7. Some creepy bits in it and worth a watch if you have Prime and don't want to pay for a British found footage.

I thought it was a good film, I've watched it a couple of times now as I'm a fan of these lost footage films , I would recommend to friends

This is like paranormal activity's brother from a different country, that was funny and not wasn't so intense. It plays a single man to me is already funny, starts with your typical moving objects and than the ghostly encounters, but theirs twist. I don't want to give anything away but most of the movie i was rooting for the ghost to win. This movie is, for the faint of heart, if your looking for a quick laugh and spook "this could be a biter"

I don't normally post reviews but I had to tell everyone to avoid this. Bad acting, awkward dialogue and really bad effects. No tension building whatsoever which I think is what it tried to achieve.

Please be aware I am only 01:18s into the movie and it's already put me off. Badly edited sound is one thing I cannot bear. During the montage shot in the storage van after having left his old house and travelling to his new one, the sound of the van engine is at a constant rev between multiple cuts, completely unrealistic. And the V/O of him 'inside the van' was obviously ADR'd in a small room with bare, smooth walls. Not that type of reverb you'd expect to hear in a van. Rubbish.