The Key

A group of friends go to an abandoned building under the belief that they'll be shooting a documentary on it's haunted past, but Dylan, the guy who spearheaded going up to the apartment, really has plans to search for a hidden treasure within the house, supposedly, \hidden by his grandfather who was a Freemason. They instead find a key than opens the portal to hell.

The acting is awful, the plot line extremely cliché and unoriginal, the action takes forever to get started and when it does it solicited no more than bored indifference from me. This film has no redeeming value and borders ever so slightly on being unwatchable.

My Grade: D-

A documentary filmmaker inherits an old masonic lodge from his grandfather, along with a mysterious key. He decides to film a documentary on the building with some friends.

This Kansas indie horror film was made for $2000, and none of that money was spent on hiring anyone who knows anything at all about sound recording. At times you can't hear what the characters are saying. Mix that with confused scene blocking and what appears to be the wrong lens for the camera (resulting in a bright image center and dark fuzzy outline on the screen edges) and you've got an exercise in frustration.

The building, which is supposedly haunted and a focus of the film, is never given any screen time. Plus it doesn't look that old or scary. The film has about as much spooky atmosphere as a bowl of Rice Crispies. And about the same amount of plot.

The actors aren't quite as bad as the rest of the production, but there are some cringe-inducing displays. The youngest actress, Tabitha Lester, is actually the best. Marcus Miller also performs at a higher level than one would expect.

Truthfully, there is only one reason to watch this film, and that is the incredible amount of cleavage on display by Tabitha Lester and Courtney Cook.... if you're into that sort of thing. It's almost as if they were having a contest to see who could display the most.