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I never thought that I was going to say this ever, this is a flick from the asylum that I liked. To be honest, it's my age that made it watchable. You don't get it? Well, I grew up with all those old eighties and seventies horrors and have seen the cheapies this surely reminded me of the copycats out there still unavailable or know to be cheesy.

If you watch the Blu Ray cover then you should already know that this isn't going to be a horror that stand up to today's standards. It just looked like those Italian covers back then. And it even reminded me of Shocker (1989)

For an Asylum flick it contained rather good effects although some were a bit laughable like the police car catching fire or a girl being ripped in two. Nevertheless, it even contained nudity a few times and a sexy scene were one of the girls actually goes naked but not full frontal. The cheesiness lays in the fact that the possessed ones have red glowing eyes and the good ones blue glowing eyes. The ghosts towards the end are pure CGI and of course the CGI used throughout this flick is one of the cheapest kind.

Newbies in the genre will hate this flick, and it shows but old school B flick lovers or cheesy horror geeks should pick this up. I enjoyed it.

Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

This movie, like a number of horrors of its kind, are better when you're younger. Once you get older and realize you bought the movie a few years ago and decide to re-watch it, you be like why did I buy this. With that said, it's something about corny horror movies that I like and this one is no different. When that police car blew up though, I was rolling, the effects were so bad. Acting could have been better and some of the dialogue needed to be revised. I'm not gonna say don't watch it or you should, but it is a little entertaining and probably is something for the horror collection.

This movie is the stupidest movie I have ever watched... Waste of 2 hours of my life...Serious waste of money... If you have any mind... do not watch this movie... Awful Awful AWFUL... I hated every minute of it... the effects sucked and it was just stupid... They made up scenes that NEVER FRICKING happened... I watched the whole thing to see if it got any better but it didn't... it sucked... the whole movie sucked... I would never tell anyone to watch this movie ever... the preview looked good but the movie was horrible... it was just straight horrible... I am so mad that I watched this movie... I don't know who would ever come up with a movie so stupid... I am so disappointed... I seriously thought this movie was going to be good but it wasn't... it was dumb... Even though this movie was so dumb I will still always hold my breath going past or through a cemetery and I will never use an egg beater ever again....

Instead of Hold Your Breath it should have been titled Close Your Eyes...yes folks, it was *that* bad. Some of the lines of dialog were absolutely hilarious though I am quite sure they weren't meant to be. I'll never see bobcats or sandpaper in the quite the same way again.

The actors attempts at actually acting were quite painful to watch and it would appear that most of them all used the same dentist as a majority of them had teeth that closely resembled chiclets.

The entire premise of this ridiculous film was flawed from the beginning but I won't try and explain why this movie was so awful and in so many ways as I am currently trying to erase it from my memory and forget that I ever watched it. Avoid this one at all costs.

No spoilers here, just basics.

The acting was fair to OK. The story/script was fair/OK (interesting, but maybe a little to detailed and over-thought, which COULD be OK or great).

But the direction and production of this just blew any "watchability" elements apart. What was reoccurring themes got lost in the convoluted mishmash of the director over emphasizing things that didn't matter, and letting things that do matter just slip right past. Then throwing in totally unneeded special effects that added nothing, and actually detracted from the ability to get into the story. On and on and on, ever 10 minutes part of me went "ok, I get why the actor played it that way, but why did they shoot the scene like that, and edit it that way, it might has well of been a live play on stage..."

If you can see past the horrible production of this movie, there is some decent acting and an interesting story underneath. But, to be honest, it's SO difficult to see because of the horrible production, I couldn't recommend ANYONE try to watch this movie (unless you are only doing so to get horror movie story ideas and see if the actors in it are any good).