After 49 episodes of debunking 'haunted' buildings, the team from "Paranormal Inspectors" are given the opportunity of a lifetime.
A Rich nogoodnick with only months left to live grants them access to an abandoned mental facility, dubbed "The Most Haunted Building in the Country".
But there's a catch; he's also granted access to a rival group of supernatural investigators, who are out to prove the existence of an afterlife.
Something went wrong that weekend; and episode 50 will never air.
The movie opens with episode 49, in which the "ghost" turns out to be bad wiring, mice, and hallucinations brought on by paint thinner fumes.
This, apparently, is the kind of things that the ghosts on "Paranormal Inspectors" turns out to be... Except the Inspectors themselves then explain how they are out to debunk the supernatural... By proving that the "ghosts" who can't be so easily explained are simply a recording of energy, and lot trapped souls.
Okkkkay... Well cut it some "movie logic" slack; except that later in the film they try to debunk a ghost (which they can see on 'full spectrum cameras') by asking it to speak its name into a digital recorder: their argument being that if it turns out to be the name of someone who never lived or died at that place, then it must be recorded energy, not a real 'spirit'. But can recorded energy answer questions? And if the answers don't reflect real events, what are they a recording of? To make matters even more cloudy the PI group do acknowledge that it could be a mischievous poltergeist lying to them for poops and giggles. Wait, what? Poltergeists aren't "supernatural" now?
An the rival group are just as conflicted; they're a bunch of godly Christians, who think proving that the ghosts are truly trapped spirits (or even better, demons) then that will prove that the Christian god is the real deal... or... something.
Worse than any in the problems within the groups, is the lack of problem between them, surely the while point if having two opposing groups in a movie like this is to create tension, but within 5 minutes of meeting one-another, the two rival factions settle their differences and agree to stay out of each other's way!
After setting up the location of the hauntings; a large mental hospital comprising several buildings on a large estate, without warning the investigators decide that the source of the disturbances is another location entirely, and with 15 mins left to run, the entire movie drives across town to another haunted institution, hitherto unmentioned!
It's one of the most incompetent movies I've ever seen, in every respect; the acting, script, story, pacing, and even the filming are flawed in almost every possible way!
You'd think it would be hard to screw up the filming on a movie that predominantly uses "found footage", but it's half security / TV cameras, and half traditional movie. Not a bad idea in and of itself, but the cameras used by the characters, and the camera used to film the traditionally shot parts seem to be exactly the same camera, without so much as a bit of video fuzz, or an onscreen "•rec". As a result we spend half of the movie watching two characters play out their parts, while wondering if a 3rd is supposed to be in the room filming; this is especially distracting once the danger kicks in, as we have no idea if we're supposed to be worried about the cameraman's safety
Honestly, there's so many more bad things I could write about this film, but to tell you them all would be to tell you literally everything that happens.
I usually like movies like this, but that sounds a mix of far too complicated and crap.
ReplyDeleteNot complicated; just criminally inconsistent.
ReplyDeleteAnd really, REALLY bad.