1st Summoning

That rattling you hear is Lee's giant earring hitting the camera. Ugh!!

In order to break the rules, you must first understand them. The makers of this disasterpiece were clearly playing chicken with oblivion. If anything this turkey serves as a cogent reminder that most found footage films should just remain lost. Especially this one, which runs afoul often.

Why 3 stars then? Well, they managed to get the sigil of Lucifer right. Most occult films get that wrong. An upside down cross is just a St. Peter's cross. The lead actress actually had some acting chops and was awkwardly pretty in her own way. The preacher had a pernicious Jim Jones vibe which I rather enjoyed. The lead actor who plays the clueless, hapless filmmaker and looks like a pitiful cross between Rocky Dennis and Devon Sawa ought to stick with his day job though. A Samuel Beckett apothegm comes to mind: FAIL BETTER.

Remember when movies used to have at least a morsel of originality? No? It's been a while hasn't it.

So stop me if you've heard this one. We have a group of young people making a documentary about a scary place, they go to the scary place, scary things happen, they keep recording despite scary things happening and the credits roll.

That's basically what we have here as we see them making a documentary about a factory built on the site of satanic worship and yeah that pretty much covers it. Throw in a bit of drama within the group, a love triangle, shaky cam and the usual found footage tropes and you have yourself another carbon copy movie.

So what sets it apart from the rest? Literally nothing. The cover to me made promises it didn't deliver, we've seen this all before and done considerably better.

If you like this copy and paste found footage films you may enjoy it, otherwise avoid.

The Good:

Looks better than most found footage

The Bad:

Unlikable characters

Some real illogical stupidity

Ultimate goes nowhere

I didn't find the acting bad, but the rest is absolute trash. I was actually angry that i wasted time on this. I was warned from the beginning though and i watched it anyway, as the protagonist's blatant exposition pretty well gave away the whole movie. There were scenes that didn't advance the plot, the cinematography was bad, and it didn't build suspense well nor execute a payoff for it. I dearly hope this is the last summoning.

Lol the part when they're fighting in the rv and he gets a nosebleed "are we just gonna let him bleed out!!" who wrote this lmao