MovieChat Forums > The Possessed (2009) Discussion > They are very serious about their “ghost...

They are very serious about their “ghost-hunting”.


Back in the sweltering hot summer of 2004, two decidedly eccentric (but in a good way) Brits descended on Louisville, Kentucky to shoot a horror film in our local abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium, Waverly Hills. That film, Death Tunnel, while creepy because of its setting, was rather overlooked by most horror fans. But the Booth Brothers, Philip Adrian Booth and Christopher Saint Booth, seemed to find their calling. To investigate and document ghostly happenings all over the US. Believe in ghosts or not, the Booth Brothers do a terrific job researching the hauntings and finding people who can explain (or not) what happened. And they are very serious about their “ghost-hunting”.

More at http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/possessed-the-dvd

reply

Death Tunnel was terrible ... could have been good .. the idea of making it about that sanitorium was great .. but the movie itself was so bad ... i wanted to like it but it was lousy

reply

what?

reply

"The Possessed" could have and should have been good, but it was awful...

They had access to a great-niece of the Watseka Wonder, she actually knew Lurancy, and had heard the family stories all her life, but they barely used her interview, and they chopped it up so much it was wasted. Interspersed were a few other stories told in fits and starts, which muddled the time line until it was just a MASH UP, a miserable MESS. I WANTED to like it, and hoped it would have some merit, but alas it had none.

I was left with the feeling that the only reason the Booth Brothers bothered to make the movie at all was in order to stamp their names ALL OVER it, which they did, and to garner attention for themselves. What a wasted opportunity, for if the movie had been any good at all, they would have had all the attention they so obviously crave.


I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

reply