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.

Yes there was a poltergeist in the house but what the hell was the person with the baby mask about? Made no sense at all. Very poor. The characters were plausible at start but then turned totally off.

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...

Absolute pants. Laughable. And, whoever was in charge of sound was likely on acid 😆 I mean...everything had a poxy horror sound...EVERYTHING...loaf of bread...butterfly on plant haha.

Very odd casting (a father who looked like he was in his late 40s and a daughter who looked early 40s...). In fact, when I first saw the characters together, they looked like a middle aged couple.

Just don't bother 🙈

Was drawn into seeing 'Poltergeist Activity', with a cool poster/cover, a somewhat intriguing if very derivative premise and as someone with a general appreciation for the genre it fits under. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there (though there are decent to good ones as well), made me though apprehensive.

It is sadly however yet another film seen recently, hence some reiteration because the exact same strengths and flaws present in those films are here, that to me was incredibly disappointing considering its potential which it doesn't do anywhere near enough with. 'Poltergeist Activity' is really quite abominable, with so many huge flaws and doesn't do anything with any potential it had. There is nothing good here in 'Poltergeist Activity', just amateur hour all round.

Going on to the negatives, the story does feel over-stretched and some of it comes over as vague and under-explained in the last third where the film especially became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less unsettled and never gaining momentum. All the characters are too sketchy and with cardboard thin and colourless personalities and with nowhere near enough to make one want to endear to them. Their annoying and illogical decision making and behaviours frustrates. The chemistry is bland and unfocused.

The sound quality is obvious and utilised cheaply (being too loud in the build ups and people's reactions), the effects are laughable and all of the acting is lacking severely on the whole, that's actually an understatement as the worst of it is horrendous. There is no sense of horror or engagement with the awful predicament they're in, and no connecting with the character, it just reeks of indifference which makes the viewer not care less too.

Dialogue can be stilted and rambling while the pace and film drags on forever, apparent from the very start, never recovering that interest is lost fast. The ending has no build-up and just ends ridiculously. Found too many of the supposedly shocking moments not surprising or scary and the atmosphere dreary, due to the excessive obviousness, a lot of dumb and vague moments and explanations and the lack of tension and suspense. Thrills are none, thanks to stodginess and excessive over-familiarity, and found myself never invested in the drama, which tended to be indifferently acted, interminably paced and statically directed.

A lot of 'Poltergeist Activity' has really dull and going nowhere plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations, while too many of the things to make you shocked are far from creative or unsettling. It all feels rather tame while the threat completely lacks menace and looks terrible.

Nothing freaky or interesting, no development and too derivative, while everything is unimaginative and are more odd than scary, completely failing to show any sense of dread. There is nothing interesting or illuminating with what the film was trying to do and the drama is overwrought with no momentum and a lot of weirdness. The direction is leaden, got the sense their heart was not in it, and the music is ill-fitting. 'Poltergeist Activity' is very amateurish visually, too drearily lit and shows no care in the way it's shot. The editing has more continuity errors than one can count.

Altogether, irredeemably terrible. 1/10 Bethany Cox