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Grave Encounters (2011)

Ein kanadischer Found Footage Supernatural Horrorfilm: Ein Kamerateam, das an einer Fernsehsendung über das Paranormale arbeitet, sieht sein nächstes Ziel in einer verlassenen und abgelegenen Irrenanstalt, von der besagt wird, dass die damaligen Patienten von den behandelnden Ärzten erbarmungslos gequält worden sind - und dass das Gebäude nun heimgesucht wird.

Über Nacht verbarrikadieren sich die Fernsehdarsteller und bringen in jeglichen Räumen der Anstalt Kameras an, die bereit dafür sind, Geisteraufnahmen zu machen. Das Team muss auf eine grausame Art und Weise erfahren, dass die vielen Gerüchte über blutrünstige Geister stimmen. (8/10)

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Grave Encounters (2011) 

Directed by The Vicious Brothers, Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz Written by Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz, The Vicious Brothers Stars Sean Rogerson, Juan Riedinger, Ashleigh Gryzko Run Time:  1 Hour, 32 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEmuFgHZZK0 Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone This was a good found footage movie and pretty realistic. We all know from the start that things are going…

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Grave Encounters (2011)

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By clicking the source link, you will find 200 gifs of Sean Rogerson in various interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and in his role as Lance Preston in Grave Encounters (2011), Grave Encounters 2 (2012), and in his role as Kevin in Z (2019). All of the gifs were created by me from scratch. You may use these gifs to roleplay or as reaction gifs. Please do not repost or claim these gifs as your own. Contact me if you would like to edit these gifs for any purpose. I will likely say yes. Like or reblog if you find these gifs helpful!

Content/trigger warnings: Implied injury (e.g., a lobotomy), blood, mental distress, body image (e.g., shirtlessness), shaky gifs, guns, explosions, and brief flashing lights. 

Featuring: Ashleigh Gryzko, Juan Riedinger, Mackenzie Gray, Merwin Mondesir, Alex Timmer, Keegan Connor Tracy, Richard Harmon, Luis Javier, The Vicious Brothers, Teddy Wilson, Max Train, Marita Eason, Fred Keating, and Bob Rathie. 

Notes: Sean Rogerson is a Canadian actor and he is of White descent, so please cast him accordingly. He is currently 44 years old. He was anywhere between the ages of 34 and 41 years old in the gifs included in this gif pack.

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My name is Holly Whiting and this, is Grave Encounters.

Grave Encounters is a found footage horror film made in 2011, which was given a five star rating by The New York Press, they also labelled it “Paranormal Activity on steroids”… which doesn’t do the movie any justice because lets be honest, Paranormal Activity is pretty crap and comparing any film to it is cruel.

 While writing about the character Houston Gray, I noticed that some of the names in the movie weren’t changed from that of the actor and I felt that was a little lazy but overall, it was a good film.

The footage film starts like a regular ghost hunting show you’ll find on the channels that nobody watches, while in parts that the audience are supposed to see, the crew act very serious about the ghost hunting but we soon realise that they don’t actually believe any of it, even paying off the building’s gardener to say that he saw ghosts on the residence. The crew are shown about the building by the building owner and the caretaker before being locked in the building for an 8 hour lock in for recording. Before the time hits 12AM the crew does a sweep of the building for recording footage and nothing happens, the building is so uneventful that later on Lance states that “this place is as haunted as a sock draw”… not the best description I’ve ever heard but it gets the point across. The first paranormal event doesn’t occur until after 2AM where one of the windows opens by itself on the top floor, not that anyone sees it. Slowly things start to happen to the crew, all of them understandably getting freaked out. Eventually after getting too scared, camera man T.C Gibson (Merwin Mondesir) attempts to break the front door down to get out, only to find that the building seems to have completely changed. This moment in the film put me on the edge of my seat, this building was said to be built like a prison and now it’s keeping the crew as its new prisoners. It’s at this point where the crew realise that it should have gotten light outside already… but it hasn’t, the outside world is like a completely disconnected place. Nothing truly worth spoiling happens until our cast has been trapped for around 23 hours when they encounter their first demon, it’s a patient, her face shifts… and its actually pretty terrifying.

It was around this point in the movie where I nearly had a heart attack because I thought I could hear my dad asleep and snoring in his room, but it was still light outside and thought some trippy time stuff had happened, but thankfully it was the trick of my headphones and it was just mum trying to figure out how to use the pressure washer to clean the car.

Now, less of me being dumb and back to the movie. After being scared again, the crew (who have clearly never seen a horror movie before) run into a bathroom where they were told an ex patient killed herself in one of the bathtubs whichhhh is now filled with blood, from which a demon in the bath pulls T.C into it, Sasha and Lance tip the tub over to find both T.C and the demon to be gone without a trace.

Fast forwarding to the end of the movie so I don’t spoil the best parts, Lance, on the floor with his eyes bleeding does his outro to his show (like the dick he is), and the camera cuts. Amazing.

The first Character we meet in this film is Jerry Heartfield (played by Ben Wilkinson), the owner of the production company that the footage that the movie was made with was sent to. His company, according to Jerry, specialises in reality TV and Grave Encounters was supposed to be a ghost hunting show, they already had five episodes, episode six was supposed to be the footage in the film. Jerry is essential to the set up for the film, assuring the audience that this is “not a movie” and explaining how the film was only edited for time purposes. Unfortunately, this is all we see of Jerry but either way he was good for the set up of the movie and that’s all he was really needed for.

Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) is the main character of the film, he’s the producer of the show and the main presenter of it. Lance is pretty chilled out for the duration of the film and pulls the douchebag move of recording the events of the whole ordeal, even after he’s had demons operate on him and he’s bleeding from the eyes (seriously dude?). His best scene in the movie is at the very end when he has gone insane and smashes a rat with a pole then starts eating it and yelling “fuck you”. Sean Rogerson deserved a medal for that part of the performance.

Our Third character is Sasha Parker (played by Ashleigh Gryzko), an occult specialist and co-presenter to Lance. First time watching this movie I hated her and honestly thought she deserved how she was getting it worse from the demons in comparison to anyone else but watching the movie thoroughly and taking notes for this review I realised she is clearly the only person in this film who has ever watched a horror movie. She mentions that splitting up is a bad idea and yells at lance to stop recording. Honestly, girl got brains. My favourite thing about her character is her dumb pout she does to the camera while Lance is talking. Most of the events in the movie seem to happen to her. The first thing to happen to her is tame, her hair is lifted by a spirit, they run and understandably she panics (though hearing that fast breathing nearly the whole film drives me nuts). Later on, in the film, Sasha wakes up with the word “HELLO” cut into her back (I mean they wanted ghost contact, didn’t they? Why are you complaining). Later on, in the movie she, and the people left with her wake up with hospital bands on and she freaks out, again! Even further on she gets grabbed by a ghost hand through a door. Toward the end of the film she starts coughing up blood which is kind of wasted when it comes to how she dies? She just disappears with some fog and its really anti-climactic considering how much she suffered in the film.

Fourth character in the film is Houston Gray (played by Makenzie Gray), is a ‘psychic’ that Lance invites on the show to try contact the ghosts. I use the term ‘psychic’ loosely because very quickly after he first appears we learn that its just an act, which amusingly through the movie, Lance cant decide when he should keep the act up or not, often telling him to “stay in character” or to knock it off. Clearly reading the room is second on the list of things he can’t do (because the character himself really can’t act). As a character Houston isn’t that important. You could take him out of the movie and not a lot of the atmosphere would change. He’s just kinda there until he gets separated from the group, then gets choked and yeeted down the hall by a ghost and then he’s gone for the rest of the film. I feel cruel saying it, but I was glad when he died because the character’s bad acting and psychic act as a whole really annoyed me.

Now it’s time for my favourite character, Matt White (played by Juan Riedinger, whom I discovered in this movie, is incredibly talented at playing an asylum patient). Matt is the crew’s Equipment Technician (you are the tech guy. You are the motherf**king tech guy) who handles the ghost finding technology such as cameras, voice recorders and Geiger counter. One of the first scenes that focus on Matt is where he’s setting up cameras in the asylum’s ‘hotspots’, his face is right up in the camera, later on after his transition to a patient he does the same thing before jumping down an elevator shaft and dying. Incredible cinematography in my opinion. Matt’s the first person to go missing in the movie but thankfully not the first to die. His character is used to foreshadow the fate of the characters with lines such as “ we can all leave as soon as we’re all better” and “he’ll help you too” (easy there Pennywise, I’m not floating yet!). The movie really feels scarier once the other characters are having to look after him like a helpless child and honestly, I love the character.

Finally, we have Doctor Arthur Friedkin (played by Arthur Corber), one of the doctors at Collinwood Psychiatric Hospital. Doctor Friedkin was infamous for the poor conditions his patients lived in and his experimental surgeries and lobotomies to try to treat his patients. He’s not alive in the film as he was stabbed to death by 6 of his patients that broke out of their rooms. Despite this he is still in the movie at the very end as one of the ghosts (an incredible scene might I add). In this film there are hints that he may be linked to occult or satanic rituals, but I’ve heard that that’s followed on in the second movie which I haven’t actually watched yet.

Overall I’ve got to say, I love this movie, some points are cliche, I’ll admit that but as far as fount footage, psychological horrors go, it’s a really good film and I completely recommend it. It’s not the scariest or most creative movie ever and the pacing at the end is a bit rushed, but I have it on DVD so it must be worth it. I even brought it to a friend’s place to watch with her and her dog and we’re both really excited to see the second film!

See Ya Later! ^-^

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Doomsday cults go killer crazy on Lifetime's Ungodly Acts!

Doomsday cults go killer crazy on Lifetime’s Ungodly Acts!

[adrotate banner=”7″] Don’t you hate it when doomsday cults go on murder sprees and leave dead bodies all over the local parks and then get all confused when their dates of the rapture pass by with no one ascending to Heaven? Lifetime has heard your anguished cries and is severing up a heavy dose of religious wackery with Ungodly Acts! We got a doomsday cult, a “did they or didn’t they” for if…

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Grave Encounters (2011)

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31 Days of Horror – Day 10: Grave Encounters (2011)

My Rating: 4 out of 5

Director: The Vicious Brothers

Writer: The Vicious Brothers

Starring: Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Mackenzie Gray, Merwin Mondesir, and Juan Riedinger

Trivia:

It was filmed at the Riverview Hospital, a mental health facility in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It has been the filming location for many movies and TV shows including Final Destination 2 and Supernatural.

There was no electricity to turn the lights on in most of the building where the movie was filmed, so they actually had to rely on flashlights, especially when venturing to the restroom.

A stunt double was brought in for the scene when Mackenzie Gray’s character is thrown down the hall. However, the ceiling in the hallway was not high enough to put a rig to wire the stunt double to so there was very little done by the double.

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Watchaholics Horror Challenge: Grave Encounters

Watchaholics Horror Challenge: Grave Encounters

A listában már említettem, hogy gondolkoztam azon, hogy ezt, vagy a Paranormal Activityt rakjam be. Köztudott tény, hogy manapság már senki nem kajálja be ezekről a filmekről, hogy valódi amatőr dokumentumfilmek, de ez is egy külön műfajt alkot már a horrorok között, így fontosnak tartottam egy ilyenre is kitérni.

  Azt azért lényeges megjegyeznem, hogy csak az első rész sikerült olyan jól, hogy…

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Grave Encounters (2011)

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Grave Encounters [2011]

A group of young filmmakers lock themselves in an abandoned mental institution overnight for their reality TV show and get a whole lot more than they bargained for.

So if you saw the video I made while I watched this you know how ridiculous I think these people are. I'm sorry but you assholes asked for this. Locking yourselves in to a place like that, I mean honestly.

There isn't really a lot to say about this one. It's your typical American steadycam horror film. A bunch of cynical idiots go into a haunted place because they're fucking moronic and don't come back out. It wasn't scary in the slightest (save for the few odd startling moments which I can't deny because they were caught on camera) and it took over an hour to get to the interesting stuff. Character development? Pshaw, you're dreaming. Plot? What plot? Idiocy is the plot. And the main theme. And everything. This film should just be called Idiots: The Movie. Oh, and insert angry rant about how fucking pathetic the single female character was. I mean hey, she was second to last to go, but she was jumping at her own shadow before shit even started to get real. God. Damn.