This is a found footage horror film about a reporter who takes her crew to investigate the disappearance of a professor and his student in a classroom that’s allegedly haunted.
There have been rumors swirling around what allegedly happened to a professor and his student who went missing from a school. Everything from them having had an affair and running off together, to them experimenting with the occult and somehow opening a portal to another dimension. Annie, a reporter, is determined to get the truth, hoping there’s a juicy story there. She hires a crew, including camera man, sound guy and even a psychic, to go into the school at night. They pay the janitor to lock them inside until morning so that they can get footage and hopefully a story. Things eventually go awry when they start getting taunted by supernatural forces. They find themselves trapped, terrified, and desperate to escape the increasing threats from the paranormal.
This is another fairly generic entry in the found footage genre, with bad acting, lame CGI ghosts and camera glitches that are supposed to signify scary stuff happening, and the usual cast of predictable characters: the ambitious lead who pushes to get her story, ignoring all the warnings and clear signs that something is amiss; the wisecracking douchebags who think it’s all bullshit, until they experience something paranormal, and then they melt down into crying, panicking idiots; the psychic, who’s all serious and keeps warning everyone that there’s danger ahead; and finally, the cliché of everyone wandering off by themselves after insisting they all stick together. The characters are all annoying, the scares are laughable, and it ends up being a lame, cheesy affair. It’s pretty forgettable, but is streaming on Tubi if you enjoy bad cinema.
The next one I watched was another found footage horror about a group of students working on a class project where they will explore the supernatural.
The movie starts off with a guy in a mask. A trick or treater comes to his house, and when no one answers the door, trick or treater goes in, finds a basket of candy and takes it. At home, he finds a videotape amid the candy and puts it in his VCR. It contains old, grainy footage of three friends. Courtnay, Katie and Rob are doing a school project where they will film themselves as they explore various things associated with the supernatural and the occult. They do the Bloody Mary ritual, they go to a tarot card reading, they attempt to record EVP’s, they have an ouija board session, and finally, they’ll go visit the Amityville house. Courtnay and Katie are both open minded and enthusiastic, while Rob is the more skeptical one, lamenting that it’s all bullshit. They continue to film their day until their final task of visiting the infamous house.
First off, let me say that the actors were surprisingly decent. They all seemed natural and I felt like I was watching real people and not actors. Unfortunately, the rest is boring and uneventful. Literally nothing happens, other than footage of them talking and going about their day. There is a little strangeness during their ouija board session, but that’s it. The finale is them walking past the Amityville house, then driving home when you suddenly hear them scream as they get into an accident. End of story. The opening and ending scenes, with the masked guy and the trick or treater, are really cheap and rather pointless. There seems to be a running gag amongst horror fans that any movie done after the 90’s with Amityville in the title is going to be shit. That’s probably accurate, because I once started one called Amityville Backpack that was so awful I barely watched 10 minutes before shutting it off. This one is pointless. At least the female leads were likable. It’s on Tubi.
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