Portal

This is a serviceable little horror flick. Released quietly last year I was initially intrigued by the trailer, the casting of Heather Lagenkamp(Nightmare on elm st.) and childhood crush Ryan Merriman (Ring 2). The movie centers around a group of paranormal investigators trying to do legit shows but on the verge of cancellation they finally discover something real and begin to regret it. The movie doesn't bring anything new to the table but it's marginally entertaining. Sadly the films best performance comes from Lagenkamp who only shows up 15 mins before the ending and still packs one hell of a scream. As for the rest of the cast they're okay. A little more imagination and development would have benefitted this but it's still not a bad way to pass the time.

3/5

With the cast, I was hoping this film would be, at the very least, decent. It was not. The storyline is whack. It's actually really pretty bad. It's funny though because I get the feeling all the actors thought they were making a gem. It's not. It's better left unwatched or immediately forgotten.

Pretty good acting, other than that nothing memorable about it.

Is this the first time I notice the potential a movie wastes? So many horrors manage to develop a better scrip than you'd expect for a low budget production yet completely fail to deliver. Why? In my opinion so far is because sometimes, like here, the subject is overused, and has little room to wiggle. In all sincerity what more could they have covered, what is there uncharted?

I did like the premise sure, but ever since I've seen Grave Encounters, a movie that managed to shock a little through its very end, which I found to be the cherry on top, movies like this, found footage or not, are quite bound to respect the very same rules the ones before them did. Sure, I wanted it to be good, and to have fun with it, perhaps even to experience a few scares, but excepting the self satire, it brought nothing new.

It is definitely not a bad movie, but most likely you have seen it before under other names, so if you just have to check this one out as well, do it at your own risk and time. You have been warned.

Cheers!

Yes, this really is a "B film". The acting is B level. The special effects are sparse and low budget. The script is funny enough to keep you watching. This script is definitely self-aware that it is what it is and they just roll with it. The weakest point of the film is definitely it's plot. The plot has good bones but fails wildly and hilariously in execution. It's definitely a movie that is watchable but not for any good reasons, just laughable ones.

I feel like this movie could have been good. But it's short run time and lack of ability to handle a low budget that kills it. I tried so hard not to laugh at the end but you just have to. It's that kind of movie.