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Twenty years ago, a student died in a high school play called The Gallows. Now the school is putting on the play again, with a jock who can't act as the male lead. The jock's irritating friend convinces him the play will stink and he will be embarrassed. So, along with another friend, they sneak into the school at night to trash the set so it will be cancelled. But they are discovered in the act by the play's lead actress and then everything goes to hell as the four find themselves trapped in the building with the vengeful ghost of the boy who died in The Gallows.

Another found footage movie trying to find a hook in a played out horror subgenre. It has most of the usual found footage problems, including my favorite: characters continuing to film the terrifying goings-on in the movie even when all logic would dictate they should drop the camera. One particularly galling scene is when one character is running for his life and has to climb a ladder to escape the hangman ghost thing (don't ask). The guy holds onto the camera with one hand the entire time he climbs the ladder. I mean, come on, that's beyond stupid and unrealistic. The characters are very annoying in this. The guys are the worst, with Ryan Shoos giving new meaning to the word obnoxious and Reese Mishler having a slack-jawed wide-eyed expression on his face the entire movie. I can only assume he calls that acting. The highlight of the film is when Ryan's character calls Reese's character a bad actor. That the characters also share the names of the actors just made the scene all the more enjoyable. I'm sure Ryan loved getting to say what he was thinking about his fellow actor without breaking character. The two girls, Cassidy Gifford and Pfeifer Brown, are fine but ultimately forgettable. It's not a scary movie in any way. The beginning is very boring but, once it gets going, it at least manages to keep your attention. You probably won't like it much but try to stick with it for the unbelievably corny ending.

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I went in to "The Gallows" with an open mind. And, MAN, was my brain shut down but at HYPER speed.

Aimless wandering through the seemingly interminable catacombs of a haunted high school. Entering dark and ominous halls and rooms which were everything short of SCREAMING at these clueless kids "You'll get killed" and for no discernible reason whatsoever. And, I swear, one more shot of a hand slowly opening a door to who knows what the hell (yet usually not a DAMN THING) and I'll put the flippin' noose around my own neck for crissakes!

The ending (and thank God there finally WAS one) was admittedly and actually kinna cool. But it was WAY too little too late to keep this weak and wearisome found footage flop from hanging itself by it's own regurgitated premise rope.

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Remember back when the found footage style was a unique style of filmmaking and only a handful of films used it? (I.E. The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, Rec.) But it's common knowledge nowadays that it's become a cliché and a cheap gimmick for studios to save on production costs. Most of the time, there is almost no effort put into the film's storyline, characters, or scares. The Gallows certainly doesn't help its case.

Pros:

-A few decent performances

-Good production design

-Has the potential to be scary

Cons:

-Insufferable main character

-Bullshit plot twist that makes no sense

-Plot itself is nonsensical

-Relies on cheap jump scares

-Has a few good ideas, but they're usually screwed up somehow.

-Found footage style is given no explanation

3/10 (Horrible)

Do not, I repeat, Do not fall for the made up 10 star reviews...( It's obvious those affiliated with producing this garbage want to pique the interest of others so they give fake ratings & reviews, hoping others will be interested enough to see it- & they make more $$) Take it from me, Wasting my $ & time on this terrible so-called "movie" left me leaving the theater very upset I wasted $ on this trash & annoyed. All found myself wanting to do, was to drop-kick the blonde, camera-holding, guy. (.Whoever decided THAT guy has any talent in acting, needs to have their heads examined.,I can only surmise he has a family connection or paid to be in the film) The story/ acting was way too cheesy to be scary. I have nothing positive to say about this film. It was just plain junk. When I went to see it, it was opening weekend, therefore, there weren't many reviews or ratings accumulated to get a real idea of whether or not it was going to be any good. I believe this crap actually had a 6.1 rating...Now, for horror movies- I considered that to be relatively high ( even from just a couple hundred ratings) Wow, was I duped!! Now,after seeing ( most of ) the movie ( ended up walking out, it was THAT BAD) and then seeing the 10 star reviews, I KNOW the ratings on here can't be trusted...( until you see at least 5,000 - 10,000 people rated it) SO- save your $ , time & irritation -skip this boring, sad excuse & find something better...

I saw "The Gallows" with low expectations, but at least expecting to see a decent horror movie, based on the IMDb User Rating (4.3). However, the film is awful in every aspect: the storyline is poor; the twist is nonsense and ridiculous; the screenplay is terrible. The camera of this cheap "found footage" genre is a pretext to produce low quality films with low cost. In this movie, there is no explanation for the use of the handy cam. Sometimes I question why I see flicks like this to the very end since time is irreversible and life is too short to spend watching low-quality films (like this one)! My vote is one (awful).

Title (Brazil): "A Forca" ("The Gallows")

The Gallows (2015)

*** (out of 4)

During a school production of The Gallows, a prop goes horribly wrong and an actor is killed. Flash forward twenty years and the school is putting the play on again. The night before the show the lead actor and his two friends break into the school to damage the property when they bump into the lead actress. Soon the four are trying to find a way out but realize that they're not alone.

THE GALLOWS is a rather strange movie because I started off hating the picture with a passion. I really do mean that I hated this film because I thought the first twenty or so minutes were incredibly annoying. I thought everything about the "found footage" film was annoying and especially the character holding the camera most of the time. For the life of me I couldn't help but wish something would happen to him because he annoyed me to the point where I wasn't enjoying the movie.

As I said, the first twenty minutes are pretty bad but once the horror elements start and once the characters get locked into the school things really pick up. I really love found footage movies when they're done right and I think THE GALLOWS is extremely well-made and well-acted. As with the best films in the genre, what makes them work is how the camera just floats around and you're mind prepares you for something scary to happen but you just never know when it's going to happen and this just builds up more suspense.

For my money there were plenty of very creepy scenes throughout the picture. This here is certainly the most important part but I'm not going to provide any spoilers so I won't go into any details about what exactly happens. I will say that the look of the killer was very creepy and it certainly helped keep you on guard throughout the ending. I also thought the four actors were extremely believable and good in their roles.

As I said, I really hated the first portion of this film but a film like THE GALLOWS is made to scare you and I must admit that the film got the best of me and in the end I had fun with it.

Haven't watched a horror film in a long time & decided to go check this one out. I almost left after 45 minutes but decided to stick out , since I paid for the ticket. Huge mistake, this movie wasn't even remotely scary at all or suspenseful. Camera work was annoying & distracting. Highly do not recommend if you're older than 15. Characters were not likable at all, so you really didn't care when on of them died. The "scary parts" were predictable and very juvenile, mainly included sudden loud noises or a person appearing out of nowhere. Very lazy script in my opinion, not much originality. I honestly don't understand how a movie like this could ever make it to the big screen, if this is the future of horror movies , then I just watched my last one.

Obviously is not going to win any academy Awards but I watch a lot of horror movies and I want to be scared and made Jump turn your 5.1 surround sound on and sit there with the volume up high I guarantee you will s*** yourself one of the best jumpiest horror movies and I watch a lot

"The Gallows" documents a conniving high school student who convinces his jock friend — a bad actor starring in the school play— to trash the set before opening night in order to sabotage the production; along for the ride is his girlfriend. Things get progressively messy when they are interrupted by the play's female lead who comes to investigate, and they find themselves locked inside the school with the vengeful ghost of a student who died onstage in the same play twenty years before.

Where do I even start? As everyone knows, this is a "found footage" movie, widely abhorred and widely berated by hardcore genre fans and casual moviegoers alike. Make no mistake, "The Gallows" brings zero to the table in terms of innovation in regard to the sub-genre— but honestly, what more innovation could be had? "The Blair Witch Project" essentially set the standard over fifteen years ago, and more or less, every post-millennial found footage horror attempt is toiling in its wake. We know this. Critics know it. And yet, these films are still trending nearly two decades later.

Why? Well, because some of them do work the formula well, even if it's absolutely silly. "The Gallows" is one of these. The actors do senseless things, the camera is always inexplicably rolling, and yet we're still watching, either shaking our heads or enjoying the ride. Technical presentation aside, what I think I found appealing about the film was its use of setting— an old high school after dark. A motif that goes back to the 1980s, we have a bunch of teenagers running amok inside a high school (which by virtue is spooky at night), tormented by an attacker— here, it's a supernatural one. The film is traditional in that sense, and almost plays out like a supernatural slasher flick, and the noose and stage plot devices are definitely different from the norm.

The typical use of shadows, noises, and bumps galore are utilized to their full extent here, and were even able to get a couple of jolts out of my jaded genre lover's body. A particularly stunning sequence bathed in red light, which appears on the film's poster and as the staple of its advertising campaign, was one of the most craftily-orchestrated scenes I've seen in a horror film this year. The acting is overall pretty good, especially for a cast of young unknowns. Amateurish at times, but overall very serviceable, particularly the two female leads. The ending of the film is admittedly absurd and follows the found footage formula to a T— for that I do have to knock it a bit. This could have ended with a bit less fluff and been all the better for it.

Overall, "The Gallows" is an enjoyable flick. It is not innovative or refreshing in the slightest, but it plays up its best qualities for maximum effect, and it's engaging and at times surprisingly thrilling in spite of filling its found footage shoes. There are some throwback elements as well that recall slasher traditions of the eighties, which may be a major reason that I inexplicably enjoyed the film no matter how silly it was or became. A fun, contrived ninety minutes. 6/10.

The teaser trailer for this film was great and I was looking forward to what looked like a savage and rather nasty horror film.

Sadly I found The Gallows to be utterly tragic in every way. The film is another entry in the overcrowded found footage genre and the story's cameraman was obnoxious and idiotic right from the start.

All the characters here are paper-thin and clichéd, they make stupid decisions to put themselves needlessly in peril.

But generally there isn't much peril, or danger, or scares. Distractingly amateurish, The Gallows looked as if it was shot for fifty quid in a spare weekend.

It's very annoying to pay a lot of money to see a film as awful as this in the cinema, because it's not even worth a rental.

Avoid paying to see the full film and just watch the trailer for free, that way you won't feel robbed.

I have never been so angry leaving a cinema, I really disliked this film I have seen the same plot a million times and found footage has had its day in my opinion. The actors were terrible, there was so many plot holes after the ending. I was spending most of the time in the film saying to myself what will happen next and 90% of the time I got it right, such a clichéd film. Some of the acting was laughable to a point where I burst out laughing in the cinema. I was also surprised that the cinema was fairly packed I thought I as the only idiot to go see this film.

I see films like this making over $18 million on a $100 thousand pound budget and then more and more of the same film comes out. I understand me watching it is feeding these films being made but nothing unique is coming out in the horror genre.

Spend your time and money on other films, like 'It Follows' which came out this year a way better psychological horror or even Insidious 3 where they have much better intense moments. I would give it a 3/10 only because I admire that they tricked so many people to think it would be a good film by the trailer.

Going into this movie and seeing reviews, I expected nothing and was still disappointed.

Everything was wrong with this movie. Poor plot, very slow start, disappointing scares, unlikeable characters (the cameraman may be one of the worst written characters I've seen in a movie), mediocre shots, and poor writing. If you name it, there's probably something wrong with it.

The ending was by far the worst part, with a nonsensical twist that leaves the viewer with more questions than answers.

It was bad, really really bad, and the only redeeming quality was that it ended at a merciful 82 minutes. Don't see it. Just don't.

I love found footage horror when it's done well, and there's a lot to choose from, and a lot of it sucks. So when I see one that doesn't have me cringing and eye-rolling from start to finish, I give it a break.

The Gallows moves along quickly, the storyline mostly makes sense and is engaging enough, the characters are identifiable, typical and even likable, and the ending was somewhat original and unexpected, so to me, this is worth a viewing.

The majority of bad reviews seem to be from people who already hate found footage, so it's hard to give those reviews any credence. But if you are like me and enjoy found footage horror, and understand going in that most of those films are pretty bad, then this film is for you.

The found footage genre is really odd one.

I seen to number of them , I liked a lot of them but I hated few of them else And there are some feel are OK.

If we the gallows falls in the hated pile, when I first saw the teaser Trailer at insidious 3, I thought it looked and sound really good . But sadly that was not the case.

The doing play on stage but some goes wrong when is accidentally hung on stage.

The the movies onto modem time and people getting ready for the same play

But the football player who is really bad actor on stage (and off stage as well)

They break into school at night and trash stage, then when movie Start to up, with the door that never locks , is locked!

What this movie is missing is that that there was no atmosphere at all , I didn't find anything creepy or scary at all.

Even the jump scene didn't work and I saw them coming a mile away.

I didn't like how the movie ended , it was predicable

I going to give this 2 out of 10

OK I had to write a review for this, because this is getting horrible reviews and scores everywhere. I almost didn't go see it in theaters because of that and am very glad i took a chance and did! It was definitely one of the better found footage films to come out lately. It is mostly jump scares but they are done well and got me almost every time. The acting isn't great but its not too bad either. Iv'e seen much worse in horror movies. And for the ending that everyone's complaining about, it was a pleasant surprise to see it end the way it did. I was expecting much worse. People need to lighten up and take movies for what they are. No its not the scariest movie in the world but it was decent and i'm glad i went to see it as a horror fan. If your a fan of found footage horror films then go see it. If not then see something else.

I was concerned about going to an R rated horror film, but was pleasantly surprised that there was no nudity, F words or blood and gore. It was nice to be on the edge of my seat and to be completely scared throughout the movie. I was surprised by some of the negative reviews because this movie was great entertainment and definitely worth seeing on the big screen.

Some of the reviewers say that the movie has a slow start. Perhaps some of these people have a short attention span, because the group of friends that I watched the movie with, felt that it was just telling the story in the beginning and then the suspense begins about 30 minutes in. We were on the edge of our seats and the ending was awesome!!

I appreciate the original concept in that high school students are stalked by a ghost when they break into their high school.

This is a nice change from the supernatural movies that are mostly about possession, which this not.

The acting was natural enough and didn't seemed forced which apparently is hard to achieve in found footage movies for some reason.

Worth an at home viewing.

In Beatrice, Nebraska 1993, Beatrice High School student Charlie Grimille is accidentally hanged and killed after a prop malfunction during a presentation of the play The Gallows. 20 years later Beatrice High School is staging another production of The Gallows with reluctant drama class member, Ryan (Ryan Shoos), documenting the production both for the class as well as some additional shooting he's doing for himself. Ryan's best friend, Reese (Reese Mishler), is more amicable towards being in drama mostly because it allows him to perform with his crush, Pfeifer (Pfeifer Brown), despite the fact he routinely flounders in his performance. When one of the stage managers Ryan Routinely abuses gives Ryan a taste of similar pranking abuse, Ryan convinces Reese to break into the school with him after hours to sabotage the set allegedly so he won't have to embarrass himself in the play in front of his crush when in reality it's to satisfy his personal grudge. Ryan's girlfriend, Cassidy (Cassidy Gifford), tags along and the trio trash the stage but eventually find Pfeifer in the school as well and the four eventually find themselves trapped in the school by supernatural means tied to the tragedy in 1993.

Jason Blum has become a massive figure in Hollywood in a very unexpected fashion. Rather than producing high risk films with hefty price tags, Blum has made an empire of consistently profitable films beginning with the likes of Paranormal Activity and Insidious eventually leading to larger scale but still frugal films like The Purge, Blum's company Blumhouse has consistently churned out multiple films in a single year who's combined budgets would maybe account for at most 1/6 of your average Summer action film at most. While not all of Blumhouse's projects reach the level of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, or The Purge, the fact they're so low means if even they go direct to video or streaming it will most likely recoup it's cost. This brings us to The Gallows, which was one of the Blumhouse films frequent distribution partner Universal passed on from their first-look deal and instead distributed by Warner Bros. Who put it out during the Summer where it was met with critical and audience derision, but thanks to its $100,000 budget was able to be reasonably profitable thanks to $40 million in worldwide gross. The Gallows is just embarrassing, it's a hackneyed Found Footage film that's lacking in scares, likable characters, or even basic logic.

The movie has one of the most obnoxious and unlikable leads I've seen in a horror film outside of an Eli Roth film. Ryan Shoos is the primary character for 70% of the movie and he's is just awful. When we're introduced to him he's making snide remarks at "geeks" and women he finds "unattractive" and makes misogynistic remarks and is basically a muscle headed bully who casually abuses people for no reason other than because he finds it funny, however when one of his bullying victims pulls a revenge prank on him (and relatively minor all things considered) Ryan goes berserk threatening physical violence only stopped by the fact the instructor is there and instead decides to get revenge later. Ryan Shoos plays up the character's smarminess and chuckleheaded nature to the nth degree and you find yourself rooting for the ghost. The rest of the cast are just bland, Reese Mishler is probably the most likable character by default but he's basically a blank slate who goes along with Ryan's nonsense because the movie needs him to. Cassidy is just a female Ryan, and Pfeifer is your basic quiet girl.

Even basic common sense is lacking as we're never given a reason why Ryan is filming anything, especially since the stuff he's filming shows him engaging in both bullying and criminal activity including breaking and entering. The logic in a found footage film is seldom airtight and has always required some level of "just go with it", but the movie gives us nothing as to why this footage is being filmed. And then of course there's the ghost's "motivation" for why this is going on which is so misdirected and inane it's hard to know where to begin. The fact the drama department built a fully functional gallows with actual noose and trapdoor TWICE in 20 years is a major plot point in this film and with school's banning squirt guns or gun keychains under zero tolerance, there is absolutely no way any school would allow this even a state like Nebraska. Even on a purely exploitative level the movie doesn't satisfy because none of the kill scenes are memorable and are just variations on being dragged away or hung.

The Gallows is a sorry excuse for a horror film. Filled with unlikable characters and nonsensical logic, The Gallows plays less like the high points of Paranormal Activity or Blair Witch Project, and more in line with the direct-to-video knock offs that were inspired by their success. At least with movies like Paranormal Entity or Gacy House they had the good sense to stay on video, but The Gallows decided it was able to sucker people into paying cinema prices, and the sad part is it worked.