616: Paranormal Incident

This is by far, the lamest movie I have watched in a long time! Let's start with the cast: It looks like the casting came from the throw-aways of a porn movie. These "FBI" agents are more like a group of college-kid-wannabe's. The lead agent is a Huey Lewis-looking character with random acts of dramatic outbursts. The evil entity is completely devoid of any frightening characteristics. Now the setting: The set (which is supposed to be an abandoned criminal prison) is extremely clean, freshly painted, and has new, completely intact furniture. As if that weren't unbelievable enough, the audio-visual equipment that these "agents" are using is the best Radio Shack could have offered on the clearance aisle. For the plot: The premise is that of an abandoned mental asylum that is due for demolition, a demolition only the can only be carried out by an elite FBI team of parapsychologists. Wait, what? I won't divulge any of the plot points, because there simply aren't any. If you have about an hour and half to spend and completely hate yourself, then by all means take this horrendous journey into lameness.

This is a pretty bad found footage horror movie that I have seen, but it isn't the worst. It's interesting how the opening is different with a woman receiving a package that contains the footage. The actual story is standard with a group of people going to an abandoned prison to look for something. It's easily predictable and mostly uses cheap jump scares throughout. One interesting thing is that current characters are teleported to somewhere else, and I guess it reflects something that I don't know about. This is a mixed bag with current scenes that have decent tension to it, while some it outright ridiculous on how it was executed. There are some chilling moments in the movie, like one of the characters gets burned alive and one of the ghosts staring at the camera. But the movie isn't scary at all because it happened pretty quickly to have any tension to it. There's also them finding a strange girl who mostly does generic supernatural force towards the characters and saying rather generic things. I have nothing to say about the characters because all of them are extremely bland and aren't that likable at all. The movies don't give us a reason why we should feel for these characters, and they lack any development for them. And the acting is pretty bad in this movie. There's little to say about the special effects of the movie. Some of these ghosts have blank eyes to them, which looks rather generic looking but with expectation of one. Now, most of the found footage is done by characters wearing glasses cameras, which is an interesting concept for a found footage movie. Also, I want to point out that some of the sounds designed in the opening and one of the teleportation scenes are pretty bad.

616 Paranormal Incident is best forgotten because this movie is both bad and dull. It's not the worst one that I have seen, but I would not recommend checking out.

This is one of those movies for those of you who enjoy the Found Footage Genre. This is also a movie for people who are not scared off by lower budget films. I absolutely loved this movie. It has an interesting take on the found footage genre b using glasses mounted cameras, which allows for an interesting side of the paranormal. The acting isn't the best, but I have seen much, much worse.

I would have to say without a doubt that my favorite aspect of this movie is that the characters cross into the realm of the paranormal entities giving a new spin on haunted building movies. Obviously there are going to be a few flaws that might bother people such as the FBI Parapsychologist with a tramp stamp, but in general, this is not a bad film. I would highly recommend 616"Paranormal Incident to anyone who is a fan of the found footage genre, and enjoys seeing new twists on the typical haunted building movies.

Recognizable actors like Thomas Downey and Rib Hillis aren't really an A List line up, but you'd think if they could afford to cast faces you recognize they could afford qualified sound people. This movie has the sound quality of a found footage movie filmed on goodwill vhs cam by drunk 1980's highschool kids.

HOT MESS ALERT! This found footage film was obviously low budget, but when they go low budget, do they have to go low budget on the screenplay too?!? I mean, 3 minutes into the film, it literally switches to a porn setup. We go to a hand held camera shot of a fake foreign sounding dude following a hot babe around while she continuously keeps flashing him. If I wanted to watch a porno, Id go watch one, but I came to watch a horror movie. I don't like to mix the two together, and yet, some horror filmmakers think that they go together like zombies & brains. Anyhoo, back to the mess, so then the film goes to investigating an abandon prison by the FBI and the FBI's cameras… yeah, I'm still confused. When the lead FBI Agent bends over and the camera focuses in on her tramp stamp that was it for me. I made it 22:10 into the movie and that's only because I really wanted to give a full review, but I just couldn't make it. This is definitely one you want to pass on.

1 outta 10

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