Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Trish Coren | ... | Jessie Holden |
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Rachel Harland | ... | Cindy |
Jilon VanOver | ... | Kevin (as Jilon Ghai) | |
Happy Mahaney | ... | Emmett | |
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Shirlene Quigley | ... | Honey |
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Algie Hamilton | ... | Count Pimpula |
Dig Wayne | ... | Arlo Ray Baines / Dynamite Jones | |
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Rosamaria Juarez | ... | Louise |
Nicole Rayburn | ... | Marie | |
Josh Holt | ... | Freddy | |
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M. Steven Felty | ... | Jacob |
Michael Samluk | ... | Allan | |
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Taylor Hurley | ... | Ghost Girl |
Rachel Melvin | ... | Meg | |
Terri Novak | ... | Jessie's Mom |
The friends Emmett, Freddy, Marie, Kevin and his reluctant girlfriend Jessie decide to spend the Halloween night in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, the younger Allan meets the old friend of his father Arlo Ray Baines and asks him to help to find his vanished sister Meg in the same spot. The two groups meet each other in the mental institution section on the haunted third floor and they find that they are trapped in the place. Jessie has visions from the past and discovers that the ghost of Jacob, a former patient that raped a little girl and burned the hospital, is trying to escape possessing their bodies that melt down with his evil spirit. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A group of teens decide to go party in an abandoned hospital on Halloween. Unfortunately for them, the place is haunted by some very nasty ghosts who don't want them to leave. "Boo" is a decent genre flick, but ultimately it disappoints. The performances are mediocre at best, the script is pedestrian and first-time scribe/director Anthony C. Ferrante (a former Fangoria writer) relies too heavily on predictable pop scares throughout most of the film (though to his credit the flashback sequences were very well-shot). There's nice gore content and the special effects are often very good (loved the skinned dog thing), unfortunately these are too sparse and insubstantial to give the film the push it needed. "Boo" is by no means a bad movie, it's simply too mediocre to deliver on it's initial promise. Could have been much, much worse though 5.5/10.