Paranormal Investigation

Found on Netflix. Went into the movie hoping to see some twist on the usual paranormal investigation type mockumentary film, but was sorely disappointed. The plot lacked in setting up the mood and general scary feel, as well as had major plot holes leaving me dumbfounded at the end of movie-and not in a good way.

If you're looking for a good horror movie, do not look to Paranormal Investigation.

I had 2 hours with absolutely nothing to do...................at first, thought this was going to be another lame Blair Witch Project, but from France. Well to my surprise............it was!! Total crap. Do producers actually waste their money doing these? Really? So lame and so many mistakes. Why was most of Dylan's words not translated and put onscreen? So he just happened to have that nice freshly pressed officer's uniform waiting for him in his closet for this special night? Makeup was like for a Halloween costume. Why was the priest not wanting to meet the parents? Don't know......they didn't explain. And the typical ending for a totally made up movie story.... In the entire movie he had his camera rolling WITH him....but at the end....he leaves it outside on the step pointing at the door........did you guess what was going to happen??? ELEMENTARY!!!! Waste of time totally. Piece of crap. BOOO!!

This is just another excorsism based film that follows the exact same cliche formula like any other film of this genre . On top of that, in this film , Andrei , for some reason, delays the excorsism for long hence unnecessarily extending the running length when it could be ended in just 1hr 20 mins.

Some parts were genuinely interesting but that's it! The possessed Dylan goes on doing nonsense for nights after nights and Andrei just keeps observing and we as audience get bored after some time, knowing that what's coming . Still i would say the ending is not what everyone predicted it would be.

The most important part of such films, the excorsism part is so terribly shot. Multiple cuts and edits completely kill the excitement of that sequence. In one scene the father is excorsing Dylan and cut to the next scene...Andrei is shown running in to find the Father lying on the floor ! Bruh how did it happen? Show us for god's sake!! No, they don't. In the very next scene, the weakened father is rested on the couch by Andrei and seeing Dylan pop up suddenly, the Father gets up like a horse and uses his methods to fight Dylan back ! Bruh...wasn't he weakened??? Didn't he need rest?? How come he's back on his feet like a horse??? This was the worst part of the film.

In some parts , the film just wastes it's time by showing Dylan shout out loud "Andrei ! Andrei !" Only the final part was a bit interesting.

Overall, a very okayish one time watch or just skip it ... there are better films in this category.

I came across this via Netflix and being the movie masochist I am I foolishly ventured in despite my belief that France simply cannot do horror.

You know the drill, a paranormal investigator goes somewhere and bad stuff happens. On this occasion it's not a team but one person and he's following a young man whose behavior shifted after participating in a Ouija session.

Not found footage but mostly done through fixed cams and with lots of night vision (Most of it pink for some reason) it certainly looks like it had some money behind it but alas they couldn't pay for competent writers.

Now at first after heading onto IMDB I couldn't find the film and was ready to add it myself. Eventually I located it only to discover a bare bones page which demonstrates just how much the creators cared about their creation. The name, a poster and that's basically it. The IMDB community clearly recognized this and not only does it have a poor rating but only 8 people had bothered to watch it.

This boys and girls is what NOT to do when your a movie maker, if you don't care about your film why should others?

Back to the film as I said the writing here is flawed, partially a weak script and partially because they had absolutely nothing to work with. It's as unoriginal as movies get, you'll have seen it all before and it's the absolute pits.

Hop, skip and jump over this generic possession mess.

The Good:

Nope

The Bad:

Pink night vision is just senseless

Devoid of originality

Really slow, with a scant plot that has been done many times before. Brings nothing new to the table.