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GRAVE ENCOUNTERS (2011)

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To love Grave Encounters or to hate Grave Encounters? That is the question. If you like the goofy ghost shows on TV that is one step towards liking this movie but it is so much more than that (especially if you watch Grave Encounters 2). This movie adds a new fear to my list and I will always shout them out for that. A fun twist on the POV movie and an addition to the creature feature category.

⭐⭐⭐.5

Trigger Warning Homophobia, R-word, Suicide

A group of skeptics go into an asylum saying “wow, it would be neat to see ghost activity” but don’t expect to and then get into a world of hurt, that’s the gist of this movie. Our group is running a Ghost Adventures like show called Grave Encounters where they go to haunted locations and stay over for the night to investigate. They start out at a new location, an asylum, and things are going pretty normal, during the day they do their interviews and once night comes they are ready to try and record some Paranormal Activity! But then they actually start to capture some activity that is paranormal and they kind of freak out and want to quit. The lead guy, Lance, reminds them to stay in character and pushes them to go forward.

It becomes time for their asylum lockdown to be over and the team is anxious to leave but the building manager who locked them in is late in coming back to unlock them. Tensions rise as one of the crew, Matt, goes missing and T.C. (the cameraman) starts to try to break through the doors with a gurney. With help from Lance they break through the front doors only to have it lead to another hallway. The group is devastated and confused. This was the front door, this was the exit, and now, suddenly, they are deeper in the asylum than before. How terrifying! Every time they think they have found an exit the door leads deeper into the asylum and the worst part is the time indicates that it is daytime and that the sun should be up but it is still somehow night (Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones). 

The gang tries to take a nap in the middle of the night time day for a few hours before something crashes their lights leaving them completely in the dark. Within just a few hours all of the food has gone bad and moldy with maggots crawling inside of it. T.C. has the idea to try and find roof access and the fire escape (for what that is worth). But the roof access staircase leads only to a wall! Uh-oh! Even the compass is freaking out! Then they hear screaming which might belong to long lost Matt. They look for a while but need to take a break to sleep and the only girl of the group, Sasha, gets “HELLO” written on her back. While running around they think they hear Matt on the radio and he says he is cold, it is very creepy. Then we see a figure running and we follow it into a room, it isn’t Matt like they think/hope, it is a patient/monster! It makes a scary face and roars at them to leave and the group runs away. 

Houston, the faux psychic, gets split up from the group and is left stumbling around in the dark. He gets supernaturally strangled, lifted, and thrown! Bye Houston! The group of Lance, T.C., and Sasha all fall asleep at the same time and get hospital bracelets put on with their names on. Spooky and gross! They finally find Matt but now he is dressed up like a patient and uttering gibberish like a patient might. Hands! Hands through the walls and ceiling! They run into the bathroom where a patient had killed herself in a bathtub and find said bathtub filled with blood. Matt was standing too close to the tub so T.C. went over to grab him and instead got grabbed! Lance flips the tub but T.C. has vanished, Sasha sobs while Matt laughs. They are chased by another horrifying patient/monster and Matt uses the distraction to jump down an elevator shaft which was a bummer for sure. 

The only ones left are Lance and Sasha but Sasha is sick and getting sicker. As they traverse the tunnels under the asylum complex (which is just as much a maze and just as much unending as the asylum proper) Sasha begins to cough up blood. She even says that she wants her mom at this point which was so sad and so real. She’s sad, scared, sick, and she just wants comfort. A mist rolls in and suddenly Sasha is gone. Lance wakes up again one day and there is a door awaiting his discovery, ready for anything new he falls for the trap. Inside the long room are signs of underground surgery and maybe even Satan worship to go along with the lobotomies. This makes for very angry malevolent forces and when Lance turns around he sees a ghostly doctors team and the doctor accosts him. After that we see a newly bloodied Lance, telling us that “he” made him all better and that he (Lance) can go home soon.

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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!

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