Hallowed Ground

I watched every last moment of the story. To say the storyline was aweful is being kind. Then you top it off with bad acting,bad dialogue and just plain bad everything. I wanted it to get better,I really did. It just never happened.

Not being a fan of horror films, I wasn't sure how I'd enjoy "Hallowed Ground." I found that I enjoyed the independent nature of the movie. The story, acting, music, and everything in between create something that has enough passion for admiration. Another worthy note being the couple at the center who provide heroines that are easy to care about throughout the film. Come for the story and creepy atmosphere. Stay for the passion that is filmmaking.

You want to know what the worst part about Hallowed Ground is? It's 120 minutes long, filled with boredom, talks, boredom and more talks. This is what the movie is pretty much all about. You want to try it out? Be my guest, but please come back after and leave a review. Come on, let's work together and warn people about what this stands for.

It has no horror, close no deaths, 0 suspense, no build-up, just a story that somehow got green lighted and they went with it. Very, very weak execution, sort of OK acting for this kind of indie, terrible dialogue and an ending that did not come soon enough. Seemed like around 3 hours if you ask me, with nothing more than boredom and another chapter of pointless dialogue from the main villain after another chapter and so on.

Hallowed Ground is one of the weakest examples of "in the woods" horror that showed no promise and delivered nothing at all.

Cheers!

Slow. Reeeeeaaaaalllllly slow. Dumb. Reeeeeaaaaalllllly dumb. Boring. Reeeeeaaaaalllllly boring.

There, I just saved you two hours of your life. This is not a horror movie. This is a bunch of bad actors slowly monologueing nonsense, with bad background music constantly playing. The movie obviously has strong LGBT ties and I am completely okay with that, BUT every male character is portrayed as either being evil or as a complete, backwoods idiot. But honestly, none of that really matters because this is such a boring, pointless movie where absolutely nothing of interest happens anyways, and trying to find a deeper meaning in it is futile. Not worth the watch. 2/10

I cannot believe I sat through this tripe, I guess I kept hoping it would improve, it only gets worse. I am usually really nice to low-budget films, but this one is 45 minutes too long, it would have made a fine 70-80 minute film, this premise should not have been stretched so far. I liked the idea of the the anthropologist and being fascinated with native American culture, and the whole thing with burial mounds is a rich premise and is a great plot point that has been used in a few other films such as the mediocre "New Daughter". The irritating "love" triangle between the two women and one of their obsessed former lovers is irritating and serves no purpose. Cut that whole bit out and the movie would lose the necessary 1/2 to make this slightly more of reasonable length for the story.

I'm usually pretty forgiving, but this is truly an obnoxious movie. How can you claim to be inclusive and not hateful when you are totally vilifying another group of people? I might be okay with that to be honest, if it wasn't for the overly preachy dialog about how hard these women have it, which they obviously don't since they can afford to go on a fun vacation, this movie would be all right. Rather than have a message that people can relate to, it simply just bashes you over the head and pushes it's screed until you comply. The camera work and sound are the only decent aspects, but that isn't going to somehow make the script any less awful and the acting any less horrendous. The ending is simply a reinforcement of the obvious prejudices of the film maker(who also wrote the scipt), and it is predictable in the worst way possible.

I do remember this film, simply because it is really really bad. The filmography and sound or decent, but outside of the the acting and script are just jaw-droppingly bad. If you enjoy thus fine, but don't go into this thinking it will be scary or fun. Expect a hr long screed about what an awful person you are if you do not toe the left-wing line and agenda. If that was not it's message, it failed so miserably, there is not hope. This director is capable, but he needs to stop writing or picking shoddy scripts, I have watched one of his other films and it does not fare much better.