Reel Evil

This "found footage" film stinks pretty much from the beginning. It shows NO real TALENT from any of the actors. It has a ragged story written by someone who has had to much to drink, and not enough time to sleep it off. Whiny people portraying their roles like a baker handling a pan from the oven with no mitt. Scenes that shows off someones miniscule abilities from Photoshop. Attempts at portraying ethereal beings in this insane asylum are jerky, choppy, and one will notice that whenever a "ghost" shows up, the film goes blurry, choppy, and jumpy. Are we to believe that when an apparition passes by, they are to NOTICE a camera mounted on the wall?...And pander to the camera, like they would to flesh and blood?No...totally unbelievable. Totally asinine, total garbage, and Amazon should be ashamed for selling this.To whomever reads this review, (and I'm being kind): this is a complete waste of your money and time. You would be better off wearing a sheet and wandering the hallways of some other institution...it will have the same results.

If you've seen Grave Encounters (you must have) and Greystone Park (enjoyable though much criticized for being similar to GE), then you know this movie already. Now, I am NOT one of those critical snobs who will poo poo a movie because its thematic content is not wholly original. If that was a problem for me, then most of my slasher A list films, nevermind B list, would not have been made. Actually, that would be true of any subgenre, slasher or otherwise. So I am VERY grateful to those many movies that do not strive for originality but effectiveness because, thanks to them, I have stuff to watch.I guess what makes it hard to overlook the derivative quality here is the main characters. The secondary characters, those who our protags were going to record for their "making of..." documentary, were obnoxious on purpose and as such, funny and a breath of fresh air from the "Controlling Dumb Beotch, with the Dumb and Dumber follower" trio that comprised our protags. Seriously, this not being my first rodeo, if I were in a situation like this, with anyone who acted like that, I would be the first one to satisfy their death wish, waaay before the ghost, demon, serial killer, et al, would get a chance to. You are NOT going to take me down with your dumb butt. That being said... I don't normally criticize the "stupid decisions" made by many of our protags in these movies- and it irks me when others do- because, duh, if they didn't make those mistakes then there would be no movie! But these guys were just too annoying. So much so, I was glad when Dr. Evil came to visit. Except they were biref visitations and as such, didn't comprise much or enough of the film. The visuals, the horror effects, were fine actually. But having seen the aforementioned same but first movies, it wasn't enough to excite me. Pretty much a forgettable experience. Definitely not for primetime viewing. But if you have absolutely nothing else to watch, its not the bottom of the barrel.

The plot was like so many horror movies that feature a camera crew of people who will get lost in a mental institution, run all over calling out names of their disappeared buddies, then we all get the truth. It's haunted with murderous spirits. Sound familiar? Okay, I admit that there were some spine tingling scenes, but not enough to bother giving this movie more than one star. The acting didn't require much but screaming and good physical condition to run all over a place where there was no escape. Advise that you not waste your money.

I know this movie was attacked but the positive things people have said are true. They do go around in circles at some point but not by choice. The best way to watch a found footage film is in the dark and with no expectations. Remember in theory it's real life not a movie. I like that they go exploring in the spooky building it kind of builds the tension. I did think the sound guy was kind of a wuss. And a bit pretentious, I had a hard time feeling sympathy with him.

Reel Evil possesses solid acting, strong direction and more than enough scares to warrant a rental. Full disclosure: I'm a sucker for found footage horror in abandoned asylums. It's just creepy. This movie pushes all my buttons and was a solid fright film. I loved it.

This movie kind of lost me for a while. I don't have much to say about it but I did think the 3 main characters were pretty good, while the other crew.....not so much. Camera work was a bit better on this than most and some pretty good jumps and screams the last portion of the film. All in all, a solid 3, I just couldn't bring myself to go to a 4.

This was truly painful to sit through and watch. I honestly can't think of one good thing to say about this movie. Don't waste your time.

Complete waste of money. Went against my better judgement rented this and lived to regret it. I hoped there would be a few scary scenes but never happened. I made myself watch it to the end because I was mad about paying to watch it. Total waste of time.

The end is a bit carp

Excellent, pleasure to deal with.

It arrived quickly as described and I quite enjoyed the film too, so all good.