This movie started out pretty darn good, a ghost hunting team investigating a spooky and abandoned psychiatric hospital. In fact I thought the first half of the movie was brilliant, building just the right amount of tension and then when things started going bump in the night I was getting really excited. It was just at this point that I noticed the movie was only half way though, and thought to myself how can they fill an entire half of the movie at this point in the story? Nonetheless, I was excited that I still had an entire half of this brilliant movie left to see. Unfortunately, pretty much right at the halfway mark is when the movie started to tank. I don't believe I'm being a spoiler with the next sentence because even the IMDb summary states that the facility comes alive, but I tagged this review with a spoiler alert just to be safe. This is when the movie went from being a believable haunting to the equivalent of the Disneyland haunted mansion. Other reviewers are saying it's not supposed to be believable that's why its a horror movie. However, to me what makes a haunted movie scary is just the little bit of believability that it could be real. Once you start making the house come alive that believability goes right out the window. Instead of going off on this ridiculous tangent they should have just had the story finish the investigation at the half way mark and then fill the rest of the movie with the entity following one or all of the investigators home for a second night of fright. This would have been a far better story line than the crap that they took with this promising movie.
Review of Grave Encounters
