Review of Haunted

Haunted (II) (2013)
1/10
Someone get that guy a cough drop!
6 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The "professional" camera man coughed the entire time!!! It was the most annoying freaking thing I have ever heard! It's worse that he's right on the mic! ARG!

Ok, now that I've got that (mostly) out of my system, now on to the rest.

1 hour and 22 minutes in NOTHING has happened. Just a group of supposed nonbelievers arguing over how whatever (non) scary thing just happened was staged, not staged, or didn't happen. They talk/argue about each incident for-freaking-ever. For example, is there a person standing off in the distance? (That one happened twice). Sadly we can't join the debate since we can't SEE a thing. It's pitch black any time they're outside. What you can see from the shaky handcam night vision are up close faces and backs of heads...sometimes.

At 1 hour and 35 minutes things start to happen. Many of the scenes are obviously edited in as they are from a better camera, scrambled a bit to try to make them blend in (fail). Someone (no clue who he is) gets killed and it's on camera but nobody seems to notice? He's killed by the "real" ghost mailman that the handheld shaky night vision cameras have focused on several times but nobody noticed!? The times he's caught on camera aren't the scary, out of the corner of your eye, there and gone appearances. No these are random 'focus on the guys face for 4-5 seconds as we all just sit there' types. Basically the exact opposite of scary (which is boring).

After a scream in the night our 'contestants', who've been calm till now, start to run around screaming, and a few are randomly killed within a 2 minute window. The already crappy film work gets even WORSE. It then cuts to the plump girl giving the "how you doin" eyes and smile to a ghost who eye flirts back aaaand end. What the actual fruck was that?!

It doesn't say if parts were a set up as we assume, it doesn't explain why ghosts who've never harmed anyone in 100 freaking years start killing. It doesn't show what happens to the other 10+ people who were there.

We got 90 minutes of an annoying documentary then 5 minutes of blurry night vision killings. Seriously WTF!? That was in addition to the annoying yet forgettable characters who just talk, talk, talk. Horrible "professional", handcam, and/or night vision camera work. Too dark to see scenes. NO plot. Sound quality so bad I could only make out half of what they were saying, and that was only when all of them weren't talking at the same time. NO scares. It simply made no sense. Even by low budget crappy horror film script standards this one sucks.

Yeah, so, I hated that movie.
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