So it's movie night, and the Tubi list is up. You know what's about to happen. You click on a a catchy poster and a wild name, and oh my god it's 30m later and everyone's about to fall asleep. You feel lied too and betrayed because yet again you've been tricked into watching some 0 budget trek through the woods behind the director's house while nothing happens and people just wander around talking at each other for what feels like an eternity.
Well let me flip the script on you. Here's a movie with a terrible name, a poster that screams "no dawg, this is some exorcist knock off that will be turned off before the monster even shows up." In actuality, it's a fairly clever and enjoyable twist on a spooooooky ghost story about a team of a professional ghost hunters out to do their job.
This isn't grave encounter's though, it's not some hacks behind a camera hyping up as whole lot of nothing. (too be clear, I like grave encounters I am speaking in universe) These are real ghost hunters, literally hunting real ghosts and the absurdity dials up to 11 as they start casting magic spells to repel the haunting, a character at one point says "I drank 3 pints of holy water before even coming here my piss is holy."
So lets get down to brass tacks:
It's good use of a minimal budget leaving the entire movie to be filmed in basically a single set. They don't try to do more than what they know they can do.
The enjoyability is dialed up thanks to some hammy acting that feels completely in place given the teams job working for the mysterious "institute."
It's not what I or anyone I watched it with expected, and though it's a normal movie night 5 it's a Tubi trash night 8 and so that's what it's getting here. Totally worth it.
Well let me flip the script on you. Here's a movie with a terrible name, a poster that screams "no dawg, this is some exorcist knock off that will be turned off before the monster even shows up." In actuality, it's a fairly clever and enjoyable twist on a spooooooky ghost story about a team of a professional ghost hunters out to do their job.
This isn't grave encounter's though, it's not some hacks behind a camera hyping up as whole lot of nothing. (too be clear, I like grave encounters I am speaking in universe) These are real ghost hunters, literally hunting real ghosts and the absurdity dials up to 11 as they start casting magic spells to repel the haunting, a character at one point says "I drank 3 pints of holy water before even coming here my piss is holy."
So lets get down to brass tacks:
It's good use of a minimal budget leaving the entire movie to be filmed in basically a single set. They don't try to do more than what they know they can do.
The enjoyability is dialed up thanks to some hammy acting that feels completely in place given the teams job working for the mysterious "institute."
It's not what I or anyone I watched it with expected, and though it's a normal movie night 5 it's a Tubi trash night 8 and so that's what it's getting here. Totally worth it.