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This could have been so much better with a better script. The characters, while somewhat likable, are irritating because they are constantly fighting against each other and throwing f-bombs throughout the whole film. Two of the characters are likely to party with drugs and alcohol, but eventually all partake. The only good parts were the flashbacks of the father (who I thought was the most interesting character and I would like to have seen more about him) and the lost sister. The effects showing them and the children were decently done but not that scary. There is a high level of tension that makes the film uneasy to watch. And when it's over you feel it wasn't worth it in the long run.

Our final psychology assignment of the year....at a neutral location!!!!!

Okay so there's a little bit of experiment....

Then theres a mountain of blow and long extended scenes of drug use.....

-1 Star for the mountain of drug use.....

Ooo then we get a Rumor Willis strip tease and some on top of the clothes lezbian action. Throw in a guy for a little orgy start.... This is what drugs do...yes , yes they sometimes do!!!!

-1 Star for who wears that kinda of underwear to the final psychology assignment of the year??? lol....and who brings that amount of dope????

Hey at least the girls are still in their underwear and ready for action when the haunting type stuff begins!!!

Looks like they brought plenty of whiskey to drink as well to their 'experiment'...

I like when the 1 guy accuses the other guy of snorting too much blow when he's trying to take advantage of one of the girls who snorted just as much if not more.... that's style and class right there.....

then Lucky wakes up and starts snorting more blow while her nose is still bleeding from the last round...

-1 Star for when girl starts really losing her ....mind...well what is left of it after all the dope she's on....

How they got a couple of decent actors for the scenes at the end I'll never know... but the damage is already done....and the detectives....boy they still got some bad lines.....

What a horrible, stinking, pile of excrement.

2/10

This movie had about 20 minutes worth of potential substance, padded with 60 minutes of absolutely useless filler. It starts out with some kids attempting some kind of ESP experiment in a seemingly abandoned house. For a while I thought it had potential, but quickly realized I had made a grave miscalculation. Right from the get go we are thrust into the middle of the story with no explanation or background given whatsoever. After about 20 minutes of throwing random images and dialog at the viewer in hopes of building up a creepy and mystic atmosphere (scenes of the first stages of the experiment) I guess the producers were like "ok well dang...that's all we got" and then scrambled to find another hours worth of footage to use so they could call this a film. The bulk of the remainder of the movie is softcore porn and nonstop shots of people doing cocaine. Like, they literally do at least 50 lines of coke in the span of one day. After a few minutes of this it becomes painfully obvious that the concept of a film has been thrown out the window in favor of endless cheap sleaze. The majority of the film felt like a clichéd, unimaginative music video without direction (oh, they even play some really annoying dubstep for a while over unnecessary scenes of partying). Ultimately there is NO point to this movie whatsoever and I have no idea why they even bothered to make it. No story, no character development, nothing. There are very few scenes which have anything to do with the supposed plot; most of which were comprised of choppy "visions", super cheesy ghost...sister...thing(still not sure what that was about and don't care enough to find out), and some convoluted voice-over meant to sound deep while attempting to mask the complete lack of genuine depth or plot. Do not waste your time unless you're just looking for footage of teens partying. The people in charge of this film (writer, director) need to move to another profession as they seem to have a gross lack of understanding as to what a movie is.

I like to watch bad movies for these reasons, these type of train wreck films are fun and the film might turn out to be a delightful gem. I didn't have fun watching Ganzfeld nor is it a delightful gem.

The bad films I have seen at least try to have an interesting story. Even how bad the director is at least he or she tried to create a creative piece of work.

The Director of Ganzfeld didn't give a hoot about creativity. Furthermore, he and the screenwriter didn't know what type of movie this was suppose to be.

This film came across as a mixture of paranormal slasher stoner soft core .

For all you bad movie fans avoid this film.

Is the only reason i rated thus as high as i did,because obviously she can act. But this script must have been done as a favor to a friend because it was all cocaine and crotches. I don't even know why the plot played out as it did,with a murderer being uncovered,but was the murderer truly even evil or was he being used by a predator? How a 8-12 year old can have such a profound gap of knowledge,even with trauma, was confusing. The unprofessionalism and incompetence of the law enforcement officers was the crap icing on this crap cake. It's too late for me--i can't unsee this. But you still have time to save yourself. Skip this turd.

The dear d b user said pretty much everything. I absolutely agree with him and want to congratulate him for having the patience to write so many things for this meaningless and total crap of a "film." A film with no reason to be made from the start. Nothing worth seeing on this garbage. Except for those who like to see naked or almost naked girls, make out and stuff. Something you see in hundreds of movies. Taylor Cole, is an absolutely gorgeous and very sexy woman to lay your eyes on, and one of my personal favorites, but she didn't have to underestimate herself and star in this total trash of a movie just to earn some money. She has potentials to gain money with her looks and her acting skills, even though on this one, she doesn't show them at all.

A "marriage" between the classic plot with a group of teens/students who go for a holiday to have "fun" by smoking joint, snorting cocaine, giving lesbian kisses,and supernatural figures and ghosts. Just to laugh at and get angry at the creators, who totally insult your intelligence.

I respect and applaud any effort in low budget movies and new ideas. But this one is an absolute failing attempt on combining 2 different themes, and also sticking to one theme either. And also is one from the many similar movies we constantly see and has nothing to offer. Absolutely nothing, in my opinion.

Well it might have one thing. For people who may suffer from insomnia, will probably help them to sleep, and actually enjoy their sleep.

1 out of 10.

The dumbest movie I've ever saw! Demi Moore daughter looked terrible and dirty! Most of the movie focuses on drugs and boney girls dancing around looking stupid and dirty! I couldn't believe how many times they showed these actors doing drugs! Next time, read a book instead of settling on this movie! Not worth it. I will take my own advice. I watched it all the way through hoping for some sort of twist at least! But nothing! Just drugs and bad acting! What a waste of time

Using equipment from a #banned 1950s test, a group of students conduct a series of psychological experiments into telepathy, with horrorific consequences.

Miscast bruce willis daughter rumer willis is the "hot" party girl and serious college girl taylor cole who has a nosejob and teeth whitened.

No 50s equipment used, just a tape recorder and early 2000 #videocamera and a late 90s laptop, using standard esp tests, from 1 room to another guessing cards, the screens flicker with images of different stuff (which was the idea of the experiment, no equipment needed for it!).

People snort about a kilo of cocaine over a day during the experiment and a bottle of whisky and some boring lesbian sex and get even more arsey and paranoid.

Maybe less drugs sex and booze with people you don't like?

Are you wondering why this is bad? Because it is just a mess. Miscast, no logic, bad story even he sex scenes are boring.

Its a struggle to watch. And I watch a LOT of low budget films.

Director michael oblowitz did a lot on this film, being producer, writer and sound designer too.

One to avoid that fella.

I like bad films, but boring is the one sin, no matter budget that I cannot forgive.

Watched on amazon prime as The ganzfeld possession the ganzfeld haunting Whatever name, this is 90 mins of cringy boredom.

I gave this 3* 'cause the actual, real acting is (shockingly) acceptable. Not to mention that the idea for the film could have had potential. But, my god! At the end of the day, you can imagine that the film was made after a drunken, drugged up weekend where someone said, "THIS should be a movie! I'd watch it!" 🙄

Four college students uncover a murderous connection to their pasts when they perform an experiment in ESP and telepathy.

Very hot and sexy women!!! It had too much drug use for me but I love Taylor Cole!! And Rumer Willis is pretty and alluring too. Studio: Screen Media Darkside Director: Michael Oblowitz Writer: Michael Oblowitz, Caroline Doreen Victoria Riley, Theodore Gildred III Producer: Michael Oblowitz, Salome Breziner, Hani Selim Stars: Taylor Cole, Ryan Donowho, Toby Hemingway, Rumer Willis, Laura Wiggins, Billy Zane, Holt McCallany, Dominic Purcell

A ganzfeld experiment is a technique that uses sensory deprivation to test participants for ESP or telepathic abilities. "The Ganzfeld Haunting" is a movie that uses sensory deprivation to test if a viewer's eyes, ears, and brain can still function after being repeatedly dulled for 82 minutes.

The visual attack is led by pointless camera shots of arbitrary things like water dripping off a soap dish or unmotivated focus racks between a girl's face and droplets on a shower door. The aural assault comes by way of nonsensical babbling from ghostly narration or impossibly annoying dialogue where every poorly written sentence is padded with a half-dozen f-bombs.

Four college students assemble in an abandoned house that is supposed to be creepy because random swaths of wallpaper are torn into dangling strips and innumerable holes are punched into every wall. For a class project, their plan is some ridiculousness about wearing noise-cancelling headphones and goofy goggles to see if thinking really hard can psychically transmit images into another person's mind. Or whatever qualifies as a mind for these brainless borefests. Mentioning anything more about the plot would be useless since the script cares less than anyone about it. "The Ganzfeld Haunting" is so interested in showing nostrils hoovering up cocaine like it is backstage at Lollapalooza that anything remotely approaching actual character development is sucked into the same drug-induced haze of senselessness.

A short ways into "The Ganzfeld Haunting," I planned on taking a screenshot of every time someone snorted a line of coke to illustrate how ridiculously excessive the instances are. Before the movie had a chance to reach its midpoint, I realized that doing so would take countless hours, and enough time was already wasted by an empty experience. Had I gone through with the idea, I would have ended up with enough still images to recreate virtually the entire film in flipbook form.

Incredibly, three names are credited for drafting the screenplay. It is a hysterical notion that any one writer needed two more people to collaborate on the creation of scenes summarized by the simple description, "Generic Character A sticks a rolled bill in his/her nose and inhales a mound of blow... again."

Softcore scenes of Rumer Willis and Taylor Cole tease a lesbian romance for no purpose other than excusing a purely panty-clad back half of the runtime in hopes that male viewers might dislike the movie less. Sadly, this shameless sex appeal is the only tolerable distraction in an otherwise unnoticeable mess of a movie. Now a turned-on audience can feel as embarrassed as the actors about being fooled into "The Ganzfeld Haunting."

More interesting than the movie's fictional story is whatever behind-the-scenes blackmail took place to pool Willis, Cole, Billy Zane, Dominic Purcell, and other recognizable names into a project that is guaranteed to remain unlisted on the back of everyone's headshot. Flashes of static-filled imagery with no meaningful context constitute the movie's idea of how to convey horror. Blood-dripping faucets and randomly slamming doors pass for shallow scares. Irredeemable as art and as entertainment, "The Ganzfeld Haunting" is an insultingly disastrous way to spend an hour and a half, and a dangerous way to dumb down one's own senses.

This movie could have been better if the writing and dialogue were better. And the constant drug use is obnoxious. And the acting is pretty horrible. Guess the premise had potential. The execution was horrible.

A poorly organized and presented plot of some merit and interest. Drugs and alcohol are waaaay overdone and thus distracting. Cole is credible and since the others are so weak she seems to be out of place.

A team of psychology students go to a deserted house to run an experiment. They where teamed up by their professor and they don't seem to like each other much. But they have to work together even if their feelings for each other start getting in the way.

Their experiment has to do with sleep deprivation. During their experiments they loose the touch between past, present and future. They don't know what is real and what is not. Why the past is haunting them and how it affects the future.

The movie is not bad. It has some interesting ideas and some small twists. But in overall it is not good either. Also…

Beware of the past it always comes back to haunt you!

Waste of time in spite of a promising premise. Waste of good acting as well. All of the actors gave solid performances in spite of what a script so lame and tired I'm amazed they bother to print it. The movie could have been better done if ad libbed the entire shooting process. It devolved into Friday the 13th without the gore. Sure there were a couple rivers of blood abstract knife scenes. Not that would freak anybody out after the billion slasher flicks. The entire movie revolves around a tiny plot twist and then does nothing with the twist. The ending is amazingly a let down given how bad the rest of the movie was. The cinematography, music, sound, everything but the movie is first rate. So it's not like a bunch of high school kids got together to shoot this, but the script and directing sure makes it feel like a bunch of high school kids got together to make a movie.

Very hot and sexy women!!! It had too much drug use for me but I love Taylor Cole!! And Rumer Willis is pretty and alluring too. And it had some scary scenes. I do love horror movies but sometimes they don't always have to be the best when you have the right actors and connections.

The movie is unusual and entertaining. It's easy to watch as you wonder what will happen next. The story unfolds in a slow but atmospheric manner. In the end everything is revealed.