Review of Hollows Grove

Hollows Grove (2014)
Hollow camcorder.
3 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The last 20-30 minutes aren't scary (because scary isn't what found-footage is good at), but they are entertaining. The trouble is that getting there is a bit boring. The first half-hour offers nothing, unless you consider cheesy improv by a third-rate acting team interesting.

The jokes are pretty rotten and the Indian guy especially so annoying that you almost want to beg the ghosts to get on with it and start with him as their no 1 priority. There is nothing more embarrassing than an unfunny actor playing the comedian. Comic reliefs of this kind aren't reliefs but a burden.

Unlike millennial movie-goers, I am not a nit-picky stickler for CGI, so I find the special-effects more than good enough. People who look hard for "flaws" in that regard should really check out some 80s horror films to see how bad that stuff was before computers changed things.

The reactions of the film-crew aren't always logical, because we're told that they're a bunch of haunted-house reality-show charlatans who don't believe in ghosts. And yet, weird things happen and yet they keep ascribing them to Henriksen, things that would require a large budget and large crew.

Nor does it make any sense that these people would allow someone to shoot a documentary about them, exposing them as cynical frauds.
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