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Taylor (Laine Neil) a 17 year old virgin from Ohio, expelled, visits her best friend Andrea Russett (Andrea Russett) in LA. Andrea is addicted to Snapchat and uploads her daily musings with many followers. Taylor gets into the technology as the twosome want to visit "Sickhouse" a legendary haunted house with specific rules to get away alive...not too hard to figure out what they mess up. They take along a couple of boys to hook up with and "protect them." The screen is a cell phone shoot so it is a narrow view...very clear but narrow. Like most "found footage" you can skip everything except for the last 10 minutes or so. This might have appeal to teen girls who like watching how other teen girls act around boys. Otherwise, I would skip it.

Guide: F-word. Implied sex. No nudity.

I remember a Civics teacher once telling us kids a story about a politician who was asked to speak at some local function that was about a month away. The politician asked how much time he would be allotted and was told he'd have about ten minutes, to which he replied that he'd better get started writing his speech. The other person asked him why the rush and the politician said that since he only had ten minutes, he was going to have to choose his words and moderate his time carefully. Having been in similar situations, I can tell you that doing so is not an easy task and requires a great deal of focus, which is something that was lacking from the Sickhouse offering. This work came across like a class project that still requires a lot of work and critiquing, not something that you'd end up charging money for.

If you are only going to take an hour to tell a story, and tell it well, you can't waste a lot of time picking up relatives at the airport and getting ready for parties and going to parties and dealing with a sick animal…

(Possible Spoiler Alert)

…and, as an aside, speaking as an animal lover, the episode with the kitten garnered more raw emotions from me than anything that happened at the sickhouse. I truly hope that what happened with that poor little animal was not real, because I have no sympathy at all for people who would stand there making themselves up for a party while an small, helpless kitten is crying, probably in pain… and taking it to a party as well?! It should have stayed in the animal hospital until it was over whatever was wrong with it, and then to just coldly inform the audience that kitty didn't make it. Oh, well…on to the next one. That arc just completely drained from me any sympathy I had for the group for the rest of the movie. You get the sympathy you give.

I mostly agree with the first two reviews so I won't rehash what they said. There's nothing new in this offering and what is there isn't done especially well and comes across as trite.

Keep trying, though; we learn by doing. Oh, and lose the vertical formatting...it just ticks people off.

It's been 17 years since 'The Blair Witch Project,' which I still happen to love - and I've endured countless rip offs...

Enough is enough.

'Sickhouse' takes the same exact plot, throws in a snap chat gimmick, hoping we'll see even an ounce of originality... of which it has none. The only positive thing about the entire snap chat gimmick, is it disguises the low quality acting... of which it has plenty. Now, the beginning of the film, the acting is tolerable, but as the film progresses, and closes in on one of the worst finales you're ever going to see, the acting becomes unbearable.

I understand the need to promote the film, if you're an up and coming actor trying to make a name for yourself, like Laine Neil - but 'Sickhouse' is nothing more than a terrible rip off of a far superior film. She's an attractive actress, and for most horror fans, this will be enough to carry her into her next five roles... which will also be garbage.

Random Ramblings Of A Madman: As for the final scene: I'd like to nominate Laine Neil's ''I'm Finally Home'' as one of the worst scenes of the last 15 years. It's an embarrassment.