Eloise

There is a myriad of horror/thriller movies where for whatever reason a group of people enter a former "insane" asylum. Whereupon they are haunted and hunted by the ghosts of the previous patients. This is just another one of those movies. I've just given you the plot of this movie and many others. Nothing really different, except a few we'll known names are attached to the project. One suspects these movies are cheap to make. Derelict buildings used always in darkness. If you are into the genre by all means watch it. Otherwise only give a go if not much else is happening.

This movie is based on real location, Eloise Insane Asylum. Four young adults break into the now derelict Eloise to hunt for a death certificate needed to allow one of the four to claim his inheritance.

With a great cast, excellent location and pretty good story it had all the ingredients of a solid horror. Unfortunately it just doesn't gel. There have been many movies similar which have been made much better such as Grave Encounters, Dark Feed, Reel Evil and Sanatorium.

There was no atmosphere, it wasn't believable, the performances lacked charisma. It is a watchable film but is disappointing and not one that you would particularly want to re-watch.

Good film but very misunderstood ending. The fact that it's based on a real hospital gives it better quality.

The movie wasn't THAT bad. The only reason I watched it is because I grew up not far from there and didn't realize this was shot on site. I had never been in there but as a kid was threatened to be thrown in there 50 times (C'mon every town has one of these places that kids know of like "If you don't straighten up we're going to have you thrown in Shady Pines". Well for us it was Eloise).

The most horrifying thing about this movie was how they got that black dude to play that 1970s J.J. stereotype then have him stealing the drugs and shooting at everything. Having him nearly drown was the icing on the cake as you know black people are afraid of water too (eyeroll).

TRIVIA: Jackie Wilson is buried in a cemetery across the road from this place. It was paupers grave for years until they raised enough money for a proper monument.

This wasn't nearly as bad as you might presume initially. After watching the trailer, it gives you very run-of-the-mill, cliche, cringe, indi horror but it proved to be better than that.

Now while this wasn't anything wildly original or innovative it was still a tad different than what you've seen before and all in all entertaining. It lacked mostly in its delivery overall I would say though. A lot of moments felt canned and stilted and a bit hokey at times.

Regardless, it was creepy with some solid spook factor. The acting was, passable. Lead guy did better than I was expecting (don't expect too much from a pretty boy Hollywood type lol). I was leaning towards a 6 but the ending, was not bad, but a little unfulfilling. Would recommend.