Muirhouse

Needs a TON of editing to get rid of long, boring stretches of "Hey, look at all this stuff we did to make this seem like it really happened!" Things like driving, complete interviews, multiple intro recordings, equipment setup - we don't need to see ALL of it. We don't WANT to see all of it. I kept feeling as he was setting up equipment that maybe I was missing something, but nope, it was just overlong footage of him setting up equipment. If I'm wrong, let me know, because that would make this thing much more entertaining.

I'm not sure sitting through this whole thing is worth the payoff, although I did find the "good" parts good.

I shouldn't even waste my time with a review. Nothing happens. Guy walks around breathing heavy and a ghost turns off the lights and moves some furniture. Absolute disgrace to found footage films

This is not a slasher gore fest... it's more subtle and poised than that. If you like a movie that will draw you in and let you feel the heavy, velvet atmosphere of a once grand home and then slowly lets the walls close in around you, then you should get creepy thrills from Muirhouse.

The tension builds inexorably as the house grinds away at Muirhouse's composure and sanity.

Wonderful acting from Iain McDonald and confident storytelling produced a film that goes beyond jump scares and large pools of blood.

I've watched Muirhouse twice and both times I really enjoy the set-up and the house is great. Then you hear some bumps and doors opening by themselves, furniture moving...it's all VERY creepy.

But that's ALL that happens. He's downstairs and here's a thud upstairs. "Who's there?" he yells as he runs upstairs. Then a door slams downstairs. Then a piano pings. Then there's another thud.

And so on and on and on. It's like a pinball, bouncing off each room and noise, all the while panting and gasping for air. And that's it. Then it ends.

Not sure what they were thinking since it clearly has some scares....just no plot.

This one completely slipped my notice multiple times, and I had no interest but boredom when I put it on. It proceeded to take an ungodly amount of time to get to the actual story, but somehow managed to keep me intrigued with a litany of seemingly loosely related snippets involving Muirhouse talking about ghost hunting and what he does, discussing it on a radio show or via interviews.

Then we begin with him going into a haunted house with his setup of cameras, and he almost immediately starts getting the spooky ghosty encounters.

The way they were executed and filmed was sublime in its subtlety, and at most points is ambivalent enough to be unclear if it actually is a spooky ghost or a home invader seeking solely to scare and harass him as he ghost hunts.

The "jump scare" moments are fairly typical but also incredibly creepy given the "found footage" realism-style it was going for.

But once it reaches a long, extended sequence of quiet dread, in which you're left looking over every inch of the screen for any sign of something anomalous while Muirhouse is just staring around, waiting to hear something pounding upstairs or a door slamming again, it abruptly goes all-in with its ghostly climax...

And then it just suddenly ends.

I'm someone who absolutely loves certain things, and in particular found footage horror/sci fi movies, even if they're terrible. If they manage to become genuinely exciting or compelling, I often prefer them to not be overly long or indulgent for fear of spoiling the experience.

This film went the complete other way, ending too soon after having done too little.