Entity

Subscribed to Fangoria of course this flick was heavily promoted by them because it was a Fangoria release. Thought it would be strong and good even as it was a low budget flick coming from the UK I was rather sadly disappointed.

It's one of the thousand found footage flicks but this time it didn't work for me. It has all the typical elements, a forest, a dark house, torches, Russian accents and a history of the past concerning all elements from Russia that were scary back then.

But from the first minutes the film is started I knew this wasn't going to be my thing. When the first ghost appears in the forest it was done rather laughable. When we see the execution of prisoners even that wasn't my thing, sure, being shot in the head could look gory but it didn't.

Around the 55 minute things go wrong with a lot of bad images and loud sounds but then again that was it. So far the most creepy thing was the prisoner in the opening sequence. I never found it scary at all. This isn't a Blair Witch or even Paranormal Activity. You better go watch the real Entity (1982).

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Interesting, isn't it, how some films divide opinion? I really liked this film. There's a decent back-story - in fact two decent back-stories, to be accurate. Good cast, with one or two established actors and a couple of decent new finds. There are a number of gripes about found footage - well, it's not a found footage film, it's actually a beautifully shot horror film, with a few bits of found footage, which imho fit very well to up the tension. I think one of the main 'difficulties', though not for me, is that that the director/writer Steve Stone hasn't fallen for the post-Saw generation of boy-pleasing gore films. This isn't a gore film. It's a horror film, and a really good one, at that. So if you are prepared to sit back, (if you can do that while spending much of the film on the edge of your seat), and watch a really fine film but with a low tits and gore count, then I recommend this film wholeheartedly.

Had all the right, if a bit stereotypical, pieces for a fun modern horror movie; Russia, government experimentation, video footage glitching out, psychics and psychic testing.

all of it came together somewhat ably in the film, detailing a pack of ghost hunters following a lead from a Russian author regarding a place where 34 unidentified corpses were discovered and never identified in the 1980s. Despite that setup, it quickly leads into a gargantuan industrial facility where we quickly learn the 34 unidentified corpses were part of a larger group being held there.

all of it is executed somewhat ably, there's a very mild little twist which doesn't particularly add or take away from the overall story, and it has a handful of decent jumpscares and unusual odd moments.

unfortunately, the film just doesn't manage to rise beyond "performed ably". There was no significant problem with the acting or the story, but there was also very little done with it. Everything was very straight-forward, and the mystery of the place was very quickly explained, leaving nothing for us to savor or wonder about, and no reason to care about much in the film.

this is the kind of quickly forgettable film that you only happen to remember when coming across it again in the horror movie catalogue

Above Average horror movie with a creepy setting and a clever idea behind it!

I've seem this movie at least 5 times now. I'm not sure what draws me to it. It's part found footage, part traditional film, part political statement, part supernatural thriller. There are reenactments of scenes that are claimed to be real (the scene where the patient in floating over his bed). While all together not that original it's also very intriguing. Definitely something I would recommend