Devon

I was so disappointed in this movie! I wanted to watch it because I love scary movies and to support Jenni Farley but I was so bummed by the end of the movie. The lighting was terrible and it consisted of the characters screaming a lot, at nothing and crying like they are scared to death. But there was nothing scary about it at all and there were no scary special effects. I was hoping it would be as entertaining as Gonjiam Asylum or even Grave Encounters but this was just lame. I hope Jenni tries again at making a scary movie because I think she is great! Hopefully this was a good learning experience for her.

Let me start by saying that it's clear from the other reviews which people hate Jenni Farley and which people love Jersey Shore so much that they would love this movie if it was nothing more than a blank screen for the entire run-time. There's no way this film is a 9 or 10, but there also no way it's a 1 or 2.

I myself am an indie filmmaker, and I also run a film festival, and I am a judge for a few others, so I watch A LOT of movies, and this one is not terrible for someone who is writing and directing their first film.

Yes, it has a lot of flaws, but I can excuse some of them because again, first time filmmaker with what is clearly a limited budget.

The location is awesome because, let's face it, there are few things creeper than an abandoned asylum. The problem is that the film is always poorly lit. I understand that part of this is due to the found footage style of filmmaking, but there are times when it's very hard to keep up with who were following and where everyone is.

The acting level is exactly what I thought it would be and it's not nearly as bad as some of the reviews said. I've seen far worse in other indie films, some of which had much larger budgets. A couple of the cast members were actually standouts and did a good job with the material.

As far as the plot, it's fairly basic, with some turns that quite frankly I could see coming, but that's OK because the movie is not trying to be anything other than what it is.

I give Jenni Farley a lot of credit for wanting to expand beyond "Jersey Shore" with this film, and I think it's a good first step. I look forward to seeing her next project.

A cookie cutter asylum horror movie. Nothing special.

I tried to entertain this with my wife because it was directed by J-Woww from Jersey Shore, so going in my hopes were already not very high. I did not expect it to be an absolute dumpster fire of a film. The acting is quite possibly the worst part of this movie. The characters and the plot immediately take me to Grave Encounters which are actually not horrible films but as I stated this is nothing special and you are given the ending at the beginning.

It is watchable but if you find this movie to be scary in any shape or form I do not trust your judgement.

After escaping from the situation, a woman recounts how her and a group of strangers were brought together by a strange internet ad to look into a missing person's case at an abandoned insane asylum only to encounter the fact that it's genuinely haunted and full of malicious spirits.

This was a far better-than-expected found-footage effort. One of the better features with this one is the rushed if still appropriate setup that manages to get everyone together and at the location. Given just a brief backstory on the asylum where everything is set which gives just a brief bit about what went on there and the scandals that went on at the location while it was in operation, how it goes about bringing the group of explorers looking into the case of the missing girl at that place is a solid enough touch. With the random group of kids coming together through the online ad asking for info about her and the belief at an easy payday exploring an abandoned location with their cameras and equipment, there's a generally solid and enjoyable setup here that has some fun with the group of obnoxious young people arriving at a creepy location that doesn't reinvent the wheel but gets the points across rather nicely. After this fine starting point, there's quite a bit to like here with the group exploring and moving through the darkened asylum. As we've already gotten the background on the terrible history that happened, the scenes here come off incredibly well with the idea of them slowly confronting genuine supernatural activity with the darkened hallways hiding things in the distance, locked doors preventing their exit and the strange clues found around the building that hint at something unusual within the facility. As things start to escalate with the strange personalized messages written on the walls, eerie whistling in the distance, and a slew of interactions with objections manipulated by unseen forces to prove their presence, it gives a chaotic energy to what's going on that helps add to the atmosphere immensely due to the close-quarter filming with the found-footage camera-work keeping things up-close and personal. Altogether, these all manage to give this one some solid points about it while there are some slight issues within this one. As mentioned, one of the main drawbacks is the fact that it tends to follow a lot of the formula and setup usually found in the genre where it runs through the expected motions involving a group of people coming to a location that proves to be genuinely haunted and getting in over their heads as the spirits start taunting with them. That gives the film a familiar setup once it starts to get rolling as the victims are tormented psychologically and physically due to the constraints of the approach and it doesn't offer up many genuine surprises that some will see coming quite easily so it's quite obvious what will happen. That's a bit more detrimental with the structure of going back to the interrogation scenes that try to make sense of everything that serves no purpose or point here, undermining why it was found-footage in the first place since she wasn't involved in the incidents nor was she there to videotape it so these just have no real purpose being here with how often they are interjected to slow down the pacing throughout here. These are what tend to hurt it the most.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.

Good lord, the stench of this movie. I am a sucker for a good found footage movie. I'll wade through bad ones by the dozen to find a gem. This is not that gem. It is also not your average bad one. This film belongs to a very special group: one of the worst of all time. It works hard to earn that spot. It is so derivative that every frame seems stolen from a better movie. We have the Blair Witch "if I don't make it" speech, Hell House LLC style jump cuts, Grave Encounters pretty much everything. Then there's the alleged acting... I didn't notice until after I finished the movie that JWow from Jersey Store directed this. Let's hope that's a one time thing. This is atrocious and no one should be subjected to it.