The Expedition (2008 Video) User Reviews

Blair Witch knock-off

[ksf-2 · 3/10 · 20 January 2016]

SPOILERS --This is an example of what happens when the same person writes, directs, and stars in a film. Expedition purports to be the "true" tale of a group going to make a film at an asylum... just why they are going there is never really made clear. "Michelle", the next door neighbor seems to be a caretaker. Someone else is being interrogated by the police, must be a flashback, and we hear lots of phones ringing, that no-one ever answers. Apparently, they are looking for Tom Kring, a member of their own group who has mysteriously disappeared. The camera jumps around, in the ever-annoying "Blair Witch" style. Lots of ominous, repeating piano chords. The actors keep saying the building is so big, they must be lost, but honestly, the building they show doesn't look very big. Main complaints: the story is pretty much the same as Blair Witch (they even go trooping through the woods.) the acting is pretty lame, and this is about twice as long as it needs to be. The piano keeps playing the same chords over and over. Hope they didn't pay too much for that. Enough with people trudging up and down stairs. and why do they split up? rule #1 is always stay together. So much cussing. This seems to be the pet project of Canadian Nigel Hartwell. Glad I didn't pay for this one in a theater. The last 10 minutes appear to have been added on... maybe filmed at a different location? the floor and rooms are much nicer... why would they have spent all that time in the junky rooms, if those nice rooms were there the whole time?

Wouldn't watch it again.

[eirwen-42548 · 4/10 · 28 February 2021]

The beginning was promising, but they lost me at the point where a bunch of film makers would turned off all the camera while trying to avoid the authorities on Halloween night, and then just fall to sleep in a practically condemned building they broke in to...

Say what? How does that make sense?

That being said, they wake up to find their friend gone and spend the rest of the film searching for him.

This was a film of lost opportunities, but not the worst FF film I've seen.

Stars are given based on my personal enjoyment of the film and plot.

4 - Disappointing. Started out alright but the plot failed or became incoherent somewhere along the way. Production could be anywhere from terrible to decent.

Can a Movie Be Rated Below a 1?

[Dcratcha · 1/10 · 3 July 2014]

You have no idea! I don't even know where to start. I am a horror aficionado. Horror movies are the only type of movie I usually watch. I'm also fairly kind in reviewing horror movies, and try to accentuate the positive pieces in them. I can almost always find something positive in even the weakest of horror movies. There was nothing positive about this movie. I can easily say it was the worst horror movie I have ever seen. No, really, I'm serious. People walking around for over an hour with roughly half of the script being the F word. There was not one scary scene, one scary moment, one scary anything. The film can be summed up by saying, some folks walk around A deserted building saying, "What the F!" Over and over and over and over and, well, you get the idea. I wouldn't rate this movie over a 1. If possible, it would be a fraction, not a whole number.

Revoke the credentials of the director, writer, and actors and ban them from owning a camera - even a cellphone

[thomasbhunter · 1/10 · 24 October 2014]

Here's the bottom line up front: an endless walking tour of a large abandoned building, in daylight, with NO scares (and I literally mean NONE, as in, not a single one), and a guy who alternates between yelling "Tom!" and "F*ck(ing)..." all backed by the most tedious, repetitive background piano music you have EVER HEARD. It's as if some twenty- somethings with a video camera just decided to walk through an old building, talk a few times, and just videotape their walk through.

I honestly don't know what else to say other than the movie is one of the few that actually seems to go out of its way to provide an example of how NOT to make a movie. It seems to want to commit film suicide and take the cast and crew with it. I'd be shocked if the writer ever worked again. That he couldn't write a script and instead needed to drop F-bombs to make up for his lack of talent is really staggering. There should be a drinking game to accompany any viewing of this - one drink for every f- bomb. But beware - you'll be legally intoxicated in the first 10 minutes. And in a coma in 15.

Seriously. That's the whole movie.

RENT OR BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK. You have been warned. I hope this helps!

Do not watch this movie

[dcwade-66942 · 1/10 · 2 November 2015]

I don't like giving negative reviews but I had to for this movie. Dear god this is the worst thing I ever ever seen in my life. (And yes I have seen Two Girls One Cup) If someone gave me the choice between watching this movie and ripping out one of my fingernails I would pull the nail, hell I might ever put a screw through my hand with a regular screwdriver to avoid watching this ever again. As mentioned in a previous review there are terrible cut scenes where they just have like 6 different types of phones ringing in the background. The only good thing I can think to say about this movie is that if it was made to make people want to kill themselves because they made a poor enough decision to watch it than they did a great job.

Urgh!

[befoulmetalroosa · 1/10 · 15 April 2016]

I could not make it past the first five minutes. I kid you not. It was that horrible. The level of dreckitude for this film is beyond the pale. First, the 911 call. At one point, the operator tells the caller to calm down. If he were any calmer, he'd have been in a COMA. The flat delivery of the dialogue just shows the lack of any sort of enthusiasm for the project, by the very people who are getting PAID to care! The girl behind the video camera in the front seat of the van...GAH! That insipid giggling had me grinding my teeth in homicidal irritation. The actors showed absolutely no excitement for what should have been an awesome adventure. Maybe they knew just how much this turkey would actually suck.

Don't even get me STARTED on the horrible 'interrogation'. Man, if that were a real cop, he'd have been limited to desk duty for his entire career. He lacked any sort of charisma or intelligence. And the Jay Leno wannabe video tech was...I have no words. I just couldn't make myself watch this anymore, even though I didn't have to pay for it. Canada should stick to comedy, Brian Adams, Anne Murray, and Bob and Doug Mackenzie. Oh, and let's not forget South Park.

Worst movie ever?..quite possibly

[jorgito2001 · 1/10 · 10 September 2010]

I know the term "worst movie ever" is used loosely around IMDb (some even use it to describe 'Avatar'), but as an avid horror movie fan, I think I might have found my new "worst movie ever".

5 friends go into an abandoned asylum/hospital around Halloween with cameras in tow a la Blair Witch, they walk around the place through 98% of the movie...an OVERLY LONG 1 hr 47 minutes of NOTHING going on....I mean NOTHING...just people with cameras walking around, to the same "spooky" piano music looped over & over & over & over (& over). The intercut police station scenes?! What a riot! Does anyone pick up the phones in that place?? The ringing phones actually drown out the detective's dialog...I'm NOT kidding. The dialog is also outstanding, such as "Its my job, I'm a detective, I detect"..no, I don't think it was MEANT to be camp, a failed attempt at humor...probably.

If I had one pro to mention, its the abandoned location, but a location alone cannot save a crappy movie! I'd recommend to stay far, FAAAR away! Its more entertaining to watch paint dry! Nigel Hartwell's filmmaking career should END for making such a HORRIBLY BORING film!