The Haunting of Grady Farm

I have never ever written a review for a movie before - whether good or bad, but this movie was such a waste of money and time that I feel morally obligated to warn people from the path I took. Don't. Just don't. I don't care if you like watching 'bad' movies, I do too! But this feels like a 'made in college for my semester project' movie - Terrible acting, unrealistic reactions to what should be moving moments, the first half could be (and should have been) cut out, there is no suspense what-so ever. I was surprise to see in the credits that four people worked on this movie...I can only assume it was done during a weekend binger because the movie makes zero sense. None.

Even bad movies - I can usually enjoy something. Even movies with terrible acting - I can usually enjoy something. This is just crap.

I only gave it two stars because I actually hung around to the end to see if it got better...horrible all the way to the end! Waste of time.

Why is it that people feel these found film, shaky cam, no budget backyard films are good ideas? Its all just lazy film making with zero talent individuals, no talent production crew and even worse writers. This crap is no different. Bad acting, abysmal story line, lacks suspense or horror, high school writing, and the shaky cam nonsense. Whoever made this movie should be banned from holding a camera or working in the industry again. Only leads to more garbage to pollute the airwaves.

Far worse than Blair witch, though same concept: shaking the camera excessively doesn't equate to excitement or drama. Crummy camera handling that induces nausea, a garbage storyline and plot, e.t.c. total waste of time to watch. When something finally happens, the picture gets sketchy, fools constantly scream incoherently, and the camera shakes until the audience has to look away to avoid feeling sick.

It wasn't particularly good or memorable, but for a tiny budget 69 minute found footage film, it wasn't boring. The tension was decent enough, though too much of the "spooky" elements were telegraphed hard in the form of random camera static and distortion.

On top of all that, the apparent "sluagh" things were almost completely invisible. Given the tiny budget, this might've been necessary but it made it almost impossible to tell what was going on sometimes, including in some of the motion sensor camera cutaways.

Ultimately it's not a film I would seriously recommend, as it's just ultimately too light on content to be worth much