Poltergeist Activity

I love a good creepy, scary film. This one wasn't.

I managed about half of it only because I kept thinking it might improve. By that point I was losing the will to live more than the characters in it. The acting was worse than in the 6th form panto I was involved in when I was teaching. And I was in it. At the time I knew my acting skills were dreadful but even I would have been better than this lot. I played a female Jerry Springer wearing a lilac jacket with my hair sprayed silver. I'm even more ashamed of my acting that the lilac jacket. I owned the jacket. That's how bad this film was.

I've recently been trying lots of films that I've not seen before and have been pleasantly surprised on many occasions, but not this time.

I started thinking "Ooh, it's British", I enjoy Brit films - because I'm a Brit - but this was beyond embarrassing. I'm also not sure why the Dad didn't seem to be wearing anything but a vest top. Bruce Willis did it a lot better, and his vest was dirty, and changed from white to khaki during Die Hard.

I'd rather watch Mrs Browns' Boys. And I'd rather poke my eyeballs out with hot forks than watch Mrs Browns' Boys.

Truth be told, then I made it no more than 30 minutes into the ordeal that is also known as "Poltergeist Activity". Indeed, the movie was just that unfathomably boring. I just simply gave up and threw the towel in the ring out of sheer and complete boredom.

I was initially lured in to watch this movie given that it was a ghost movie with some poltergeist activity - hence the name, duh! But wow, was this a swing and a miss. 30 minutes into the movie and still nothing had happened, aside from a dysfunctional family consisting of a father and daughter having moved into a new house and were just stumbling about with any direction or meaning.

I didn't even care one bit about any of the characters in the movie, because they were showing as much charisma as watered down cardboard cut-out characters would. And the dialogue in this movie didn't really help promote the entertainment value either.

As for the acting, well I didn't really see anything noteworthy, and I am sure that it was the result of having nothing worthwhile to work with in terms of script, direction and storyline. The actors and actresses here just simply had nothing to work with.

"Poltergeist Activity" came and went without leaving a dent or even the tiniest of scratches in anything. And I can honestly say that I have no intention of ever returning to watch the rest of the movie at any time in the future, because the movie just had nothing to offer.

I am rating "Poltergeist Activity" a mere two out of ten stars, solely because it did have some production value to it, at least. But when it comes to it, don't waste your time, money or effort on "Poltergeist Activity", because it quite simply just isn't worth it. It seemed that even whatever poltergeist was supposed to be appearing in this movie even was fleeing at full speed away from this stinker of a movie...

I hates this film.it's so bad written and i get its low budget but it's bad.didn't even make it to half way it's just really bad.the title of the film made me watch it as it sounded like a good film but as i started to watch it it just got worse and worse and i kept watching it.

As a story, there were some good ideas.. but what made the movie fall flat was the dreadful sound, the lack of suspense and the casting.

So you have the Father: who looks good for his age but can still pull off the young father look, and to also note - I thought he acted the part quite well.

Then you have the daughter: who is supposedly still in school, yet looked the same age as the father! Which I found disturbing..

Some actors must think if they keep going for younger roles all the time, it may "extend" their career or something, but what made it worse, she couldn't even act her character's age either. If you don't look the part - at least try to act it!

In short, the DVD cover is pretty misleading in relation to the film inside.

Just an absolute waste of a movie night....save this one for the old school horror movie buffs with no idea what decent actors or special effects are....felt like it could turn into an adult film at any moment with the age of the actors and general feel of the movie....ridiculous... not even scary in the least.. I suggest saving your money to use when the actual poltergeist movie comes out. Recommended only for those who need the background noise while they fall asleep at night. At least the views on the movie were pretty but still the storyline made no sense and is kind of irritating due to the trailer being so misleading about the movie