Ghost Month

A horror set in modern day America based on ancient Chinese beliefs seemed like the formula for a good movie, but how wrong can you be. The premise is as good as the movie gets, with its cheesy b movie stereotypes, and Japanese horror rip offs.

The only horror here, is the fact that someone had bad enough judgement to release this atrocious waste of time.

This doesn't fall into the "so bad it's good" category: it falls into the "so bad its unwatchable" group.

Every character is a tedious overplayed stereotype - every piece of make up is straight out of the J horror handbook. Even the badly used and heavy handed musical score is lame and intrusive rather than .

If this movie has any saving grace, it's the fact that it's most unlikely to spawn a sequel.

Everything about it says a movie made by college kids. I am loath to do down anyone or anything and usually look for the positives in all situations, but having just seen this film I feel I should warn anyone considering watching it. Don't! Everything is bad. The plot can best be described as weak, the twist, more like a slight turn, can easily be guessed at. The acting is unconvincing and I'm sure in places they were waiting for cues. The directing is poor, in fact rather than waste your time having to read further - avoid this movie as everything is so poor. There was 'one' jump moment and the rest of it was sheer boredom. My advice is buy a tin of paint, stick a pencil in it and watch it dry. It'll be far more entertaining.

Why is Horror and Genre movies being handled by people like the detrimental Charles Band, or The Asylum! And why despite all these amazing bad reviews and comments (you figure i have never met anyone who could even merely stand one of these!), people asking for their money back and so on, why this demented, disrespectful crap is still being made? Why? I don't know, it is just so not right, especially since being a huge fan of B movies, cult's and Horrors, I am always having fun whenever there's at least an attempt in making something decent! But, here, there's no respect, there's no boundaries, most of all, there's no movie! Charles Band and the people at the Asylum are guilty up to an extent though! I personally would call them scam artists, con artists and not filmmakers, but, who's even worse than them is the Distributors buying this crap, instead of a lot more deserving movies I often see at some Genre's Film Festivals and that rarely get released, or if they do, they even get less space and attention of these atrocious boring non movies! Abortions my mother called them, and so referring to something she obviously not only despise, but, also avoids! Why haven't I? Oh, believe me people! I am not into pain or sadomasochistic activities at all! I will, from now on! And, like the plague! And, also because crap like this is an offense to the culture of our Country (hey.. and that's already saying something, right there ha ha!) but, I had, before, refuse myself i was so rightly so doing for quite a while, just based on other people's comments or on dear friends suggestions! Well now, there's one more motive! Wanted to be fair and had to go through (I honestly ever made it to a three quarters, but, should be getting kudos, because of that!) to a few Charles Band's productions, finding them some of the worst scam, especially, certain homo erotic's movies he produces, with some director, David De Coteau! Man, that stuff wasn't just bad and boring, cheap and cheesy, that stuff was sick,morbid! YUK! Ewwwwww Young guys in speedo's (those two should be ashamed of themselves) exploited while making out for virtually 100 minutes! That's disgusting! And i am not homophobic at all, but, that was just plain insulting and disturbing, way more than some good erotic flick! This does not have those, but, just has amateurish everything and bore to no END! People, let's strike against these frauds! LET'S STOP BUYING or RENT ANY OF THESE MOVIES! BE WARNED: Either Charles Band (FULL MOON Ent.) or THE ASYLUM's logo on the DVD mean that you're never gonna watch anything good, but actually, either, an AMATEURISH BORE or a vulgar rip off of someone else's film, most likely, actually, certainly, made for cheap, featuring some of the worst acting ever seen worldwide (by the way, WHO CAST THESE NON MOVIES??? WHO? I would wanna see them on their faces!) and, most of all, remember you are spending money into something you may save, and, just watch instead (and for free) some really fresh and cool internet TV Series on you tube! You'd be surprised how EVEN THOSE, if next to such deplorable fare like this one here, or other products coming from those 2 awfully corrupted Brands, may be feeling COOL, FRESH, and even professionally shot, at times! Not too much to ask, uh?

I'm sorry folks, but I only just managed to sit through 55 minutes of this turd of a movie.

Leaden direction, poor editing, wooden acting and pretty much zero thrills or scares. The storyline, if you can call it that, is so full of holes it would make Swiss Cheese hang its head in shame.

I'm not into gore, I much prefer psychological thriller/horror type movies so I thought that I'd enjoy this, turned out to be a total waste of 55 minutes of my life!

If you're looking for a somewhat original and well executed North American "J" style horror then check out the Canadian film "They Wait". It's pretty good and well worth the rental fee.

For those not familiar with Danny Draven he's an old school filmmaker most well known for many independent and Full Moon pictures. Generally his works are pretty poor and cheesy nonsense at their best.

Here he writes and directs and has a considerably higher budget than usual, but can he do something with it? Absolutely not.

The Offerings tells the story of a girl who moves out into the middle of nowhere to be housekeeper. But with her employers having a sinister secret, the house being full of spirits and her psychotic ex boyfriend hot on her heels nothing goes the way she planned.

To the films credit the sfx look quite good, sadly they are rare and incredibly brief. Considering the budget and the near unknown cast this is unexplainable and Draven really has no excuse.

The plot is a jumbled mess, the cinematography is most poor and despite showing some promising signs early on the film really has very little going for it.

Draven will no doubt continue working for many years to come, I think he should stop or at very least go back to Fullmoon as their movies have a charm even he couldn't ruin.

The Good:

Some of the sfx are quite good

The Bad:

Poor sound balancing

Very amateurishly shot in places

Movie is an all round mess

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

I'd putting money down now, if I looked at his birth certificate it will not read Daniel Draven