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Special Features
An Interview with the Vicious Brothers and Producer Shawn Angelski, Presented by American Express
Making of Grave Encounters
Making of Grave Encounters
Editorial Reviews
Review
This veritable spook house of horrors will have you jumping out of your seats for sure. --DreadCentral.com
It s Paranormal Activity on steroids, and perhaps the bravest of the found footage genre, one that counts The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield among its best... One of the scariest, most memorable films of 2011. --NY Press
To say that GRAVE ENCOUNTERS is terrifying is a slight understatement. I'd say my breathing was short and shallow for about one hour straight. --Quiet Earth
It s Paranormal Activity on steroids, and perhaps the bravest of the found footage genre, one that counts The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield among its best... One of the scariest, most memorable films of 2011. --NY Press
To say that GRAVE ENCOUNTERS is terrifying is a slight understatement. I'd say my breathing was short and shallow for about one hour straight. --Quiet Earth
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Product Description
Lance Preston and the crew of Grave Encounters, a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years. On a quest to expose the truth, the crew voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begins a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly find themselves lost in a labyrinth of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients. Soon they realize that the building is more than just haunted. It s alive, and it has no intention of ever letting them leave.
Special Features
- An Interview with the Vicious Brothers and Producer Shawn Angelski Presented by American Express
- Making of Grave Encounters
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33 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Format:Amazon Instant Video|Amazon Verified Purchase
Well, to be honest, I was sort of skeptical of this movie. The beginning was a bit corny and cheesy. And the intro of Lance on Grave Encounters show reminded me of Paranormal State intro with Ryan talking. And a lot of the mannerisms Lance has seem to be from Ryan Buell.
Anyway, once you got out of the corniness, the movie really took you into the haunted bowels of the abandoned mental asylum. For the reminder of the time, the movie had me on edge to be honest right to the very end. Not many movies can do that to me but this one did. I highly recommend it for anyone fond of paranormal type movies without the gory, slasher details. Enjoy guys!
Anyway, once you got out of the corniness, the movie really took you into the haunted bowels of the abandoned mental asylum. For the reminder of the time, the movie had me on edge to be honest right to the very end. Not many movies can do that to me but this one did. I highly recommend it for anyone fond of paranormal type movies without the gory, slasher details. Enjoy guys!
23 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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This movie was really good. I am a horror fan who does not care for general slash and gore movies, it has to have some substance to it. This fit the bill for spooky. The sound track and quality was good, along with the acting. The "Ghost Investigators" bear a striking resemblence to a "Ghost Investigation" team which is currently airing on PBS. So, there was some tongue and cheek humor in it, and I found that amusing. But, for the most part it is a horror movie based on the supernatural and was really scary at times, more so than any other documentary style horror movie that I've seen. If you have small children please be advised that this movie will give them nighmares!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
They were searching for proof...they found it! I'm so glad I took a chance on this film!
February 5, 2012
By Tokay
Format:DVD
This flick really surprised me. I'm so glad I took a chance on this one. Flicks like this and The Hazing (2004) inspire me to continue taking chances when Netflix or Amazon throws a weird suggestion my way. I give this a direct-to-DVD horror "A".
This movie operates much like The Last Exorcism (2010). We follow Lance Preston and his Ghost Hunters film crew into a haunted mental hospital in search of the paranormal. It comes off as a satire, with a lot of sophomoric sarcasm and a totally fake medium. They laugh about things being "too over the top" between cuts and they pay a gardener twenty bucks to lie about seeing a ghost on the property. This works out fantastically! Normally the first 20-30 minutes of any horror are painful. They have barely-trained actors and a perfunctory storyline. Grave Encounters, however, has good acting and draws a lot of smiles as we learn about the film crew. This also serves as a superior directorial device to engage the viewers into caring about these characters.
The story is simple and certainly nothing new. The crew locks themselves into the abandoned hospital from 10pm-6am, giving them eight hours in total darkness to catch some paranormal activity on film. They get a tour from the caretaker and hear a few "real" ghost stories about the place to hype up their show (called Grave Encounters) and choose where to place static cameras.
The execution is more like the Paranormal Activity films (2007, 2010, 2011). There's a lot of slow tension build-up and you find yourself concentrating on the screen; staring waiting for something to move and listening for a subtle sound (like White Noise (2005)). This is a style that I love, but many people don't like this.
What caught me off guard is that while everything was done surprisingly well in terms of acting, effects, sets, scares, and directing, the writing seemed very misguided. Not the dialogue, but the events. At first things seem sensible. Some random objects move here and there. But as the movie progresses and the intensity of the paranormal activity amplifies, the events seem less connected. The writers mix elements of "ghost" movies with elements of "house" movies. In the movie, Lance explains that there are static and intelligent hauntings. Static haunting account for the "house" movie subgenre, in which there is an energy echoing a past event (but there is no specific ghost, demon or spirit). Intelligent hauntings are our "ghost" story subgenre, in which a paranormal entity has some motivation and responds to human presence. In most horror movies, the writing will choose one subgenre or the other. Really never both.
Anyway, this subgenre combo doesn't work. People start disappearing or dying and we don't know why. Some weird things happen that make me want to guess "why this is happening" or "what the ghost wants" or "what happened in the hospital" or "are the crew members somehow linked to the hospital?" Ultimately, I was hit with a lot of red herrings which served no end. As a result, the end of the movie was simply when we ran out of people to kill or mysteriously disappear. I wanted a little more.
Despite this big overall writing flaw, each individual scene worked well. I enjoyed every five minute piece of the movie. But after the first 30 minutes, the scenes just failed to make a story when assembled chronologically.
However critical I may sound, I really enjoyed this and strongly recommend it to any of you who enjoy occasionally taking a chance on an unknown direct-to-DVD horror.
This movie operates much like The Last Exorcism (2010). We follow Lance Preston and his Ghost Hunters film crew into a haunted mental hospital in search of the paranormal. It comes off as a satire, with a lot of sophomoric sarcasm and a totally fake medium. They laugh about things being "too over the top" between cuts and they pay a gardener twenty bucks to lie about seeing a ghost on the property. This works out fantastically! Normally the first 20-30 minutes of any horror are painful. They have barely-trained actors and a perfunctory storyline. Grave Encounters, however, has good acting and draws a lot of smiles as we learn about the film crew. This also serves as a superior directorial device to engage the viewers into caring about these characters.
The story is simple and certainly nothing new. The crew locks themselves into the abandoned hospital from 10pm-6am, giving them eight hours in total darkness to catch some paranormal activity on film. They get a tour from the caretaker and hear a few "real" ghost stories about the place to hype up their show (called Grave Encounters) and choose where to place static cameras.
The execution is more like the Paranormal Activity films (2007, 2010, 2011). There's a lot of slow tension build-up and you find yourself concentrating on the screen; staring waiting for something to move and listening for a subtle sound (like White Noise (2005)). This is a style that I love, but many people don't like this.
What caught me off guard is that while everything was done surprisingly well in terms of acting, effects, sets, scares, and directing, the writing seemed very misguided. Not the dialogue, but the events. At first things seem sensible. Some random objects move here and there. But as the movie progresses and the intensity of the paranormal activity amplifies, the events seem less connected. The writers mix elements of "ghost" movies with elements of "house" movies. In the movie, Lance explains that there are static and intelligent hauntings. Static haunting account for the "house" movie subgenre, in which there is an energy echoing a past event (but there is no specific ghost, demon or spirit). Intelligent hauntings are our "ghost" story subgenre, in which a paranormal entity has some motivation and responds to human presence. In most horror movies, the writing will choose one subgenre or the other. Really never both.
Anyway, this subgenre combo doesn't work. People start disappearing or dying and we don't know why. Some weird things happen that make me want to guess "why this is happening" or "what the ghost wants" or "what happened in the hospital" or "are the crew members somehow linked to the hospital?" Ultimately, I was hit with a lot of red herrings which served no end. As a result, the end of the movie was simply when we ran out of people to kill or mysteriously disappear. I wanted a little more.
Despite this big overall writing flaw, each individual scene worked well. I enjoyed every five minute piece of the movie. But after the first 30 minutes, the scenes just failed to make a story when assembled chronologically.
However critical I may sound, I really enjoyed this and strongly recommend it to any of you who enjoy occasionally taking a chance on an unknown direct-to-DVD horror.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
unbelievable
Oh. My. God. I can't believe it took me this long to finally watch this movie. Wow. Do it. Seriously.
Published 4 days ago by Silencieux
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not that great.
Couldn't give this film/mocumentary a good review on the basis that it just wasn't believable. The acting was poor, visually, stagnant. Read more
Published 5 days ago by browneyedgirl
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too many F-Bombs for a TV MA rating! Should have been rated R...
The premise seemed very exciting. I like to be scared, but not grossed out so I figured this movie would be tense but not gory. I never thought about the language...eeesh!! Read more
Published 7 days ago by Brenda W. Ayerdis
5.0 out of 5 stars
Well made "documentary"
The movie is really well made outside of the fact that its highly unlikely someone black would even be part of this let alone do some of the single mission stuff he was told to... Read more
Published 8 days ago by Whymista
3.0 out of 5 stars
Horrible acting
Cheap scares and never really goes anywhere. kinda drags on and on after a while you just start wondering if its ever gunna end.
Published 15 days ago by Scott
2.0 out of 5 stars
Ehhh
Its ok, bad ending, could have been better, went from Ghost Hunter believable to the extreme.... I guess if you're bored, grab a beer and enjoy!
Published 18 days ago by JOHN
3.0 out of 5 stars
Immature experts
I find it really sad when people in a film are called experts only to reveal their immaturity trumps their professionalism, this movie is a good case of that. Read more
Published 19 days ago by Jason Brown
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good enough
It is a good scary movie, it does not have very good special effects, goog theme and goog shooting location
Published 20 days ago by Miguel A Velasco
4.0 out of 5 stars
Creeped me out
Definitely made me jump a bit, had some nice scares. I love paranormal movies and I thought this had a really good storyline, especially with how they were all actually skeptical... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lauren
1.0 out of 5 stars
Starts off well, then the writer gave up
This started off very spooky, nice build up and creepy scenes, but then the writer seemed to run out of ideas and just decided to kill off the cast in the most incomprehensible... Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Nisbet
