I just watched this and I was conned into believing that it was real too. That, however, did not happen with me and Blair Witch Project, so those of you who say that BWP looked real, here's an example to debunk your opinions. Now those of you that don't believe in this stuff. Yes the people in it were actors, but you have to do some more background checks, such as looking at the house they went into. The house is real, as the plantation is the Myrtle Plantation and is haunted by slaves and other people. Also, the woman that tortured slaves was real and she did all of that gross stuff, but the connection between her and the house is fake. Now on to the movie. As I said before, the 4 people were actors. However, that does not mean they were not qualified. If you notice, the film student's bio shows no acting, but assistance jobs in film(stuff a film student would do), and a switched last name. The last name switch only occurs in this case and with the Team LEader. Now I could be wrong, but maybe the guys didn't want their last names revealed for privacy? We don't know. All we know is that the girls are the real thing, no name changes or anything. And in the psycic's(sp?) case, an actor can have physcic abilities. The Ghost Historian is a real Ghost Historian and is starring in a real documentary about children ghosts as well as other prominent ghost historians. Finally, the things that went on in the house are split between hoax and fact. The light falling, the cat, the medical tools found in that basement thing, and the cockroaches were all fake. These were added by the stupid hollywood company in order to "spice up" the movie. The rest is all true. That and some other stuff that were not captured on film actually happened and were what the original documentary was supposed to find. This is backed by history as that house is the place where torture occured, but not by the people mentioned in the movie. The overall goal of the original run was to create a documentary to show if this place was haunted and what would happen. It was then tampered with to add some "flavor", bad flavor in my opinion. So before seeing this movie, one should realize that although the movie has truth in it, some of the things that happen are fake.
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digitalboy72
17 years ago
I just finished watching this on Fearnet ondemand and I must say that aside from a couple of unecessary horror film cliche's that underminded the suspense it had built up (the jumping cat and the joker who jumps out to scare the girls is what i'm mainly referring to) it was actually very effective! It does leave lots to the imagination but it works on our primal fear of dark and spooky houses. The film plays out like one of those really good haunted house attractions that you'd find around Halloween time and you feel as if your being led through it with the rest of the cast.
I didn't expect much but was very pleasantly surprised by this.
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necesitoukemi
17 years ago
People either seem to love or hate this movie. Clearly parts of it were fake, yet I too just watched it on OnDemand's Fearnet, and I can honestly there were moments when it scared the crap out of me. I just wish they would've left some things out (the cat, see post above and the silly torture room scene at the end). Nevertheless, I'd call this a pretty entertaining, engrossing movie.
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