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Absolutely the worst film ever made!


Wow....where do I start!

Well I'll just say this....it's meant to be a found footage film so how the foook can the film exist if the world ends in nuclear war!

Classic bs with hidden cams like paranormal activity but no where near as good!

The acting was so bad it was almost comedy! I seriously could have done better with my £150 HD CAMCORDER, IN AN old stately home with a few of my friends and a script we had discussed in the pub the previous evening !

I would love to hear what other people think but I would recommend to avoid at all costs!

Ps would you really go on a *beep* ghost hunt if the world was on the edge of nuclear war!!

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Well I just saw it..

I did not think the acting was all that lousy. Maybe my all too steady diet of C grade films is poisoning my ability to judge. I have seen much worse is what I suppose I should say.

My thought at the end was "It didn't matter". What they did, what they saw, the whole point of it all didn't matter because the bombs fell and I assume no matter where they were they would have died. They'd have been better off with family.

What I noticed throughout the night photography were the orbs. Planned? Put in during post or did they just happen? Anyone who watches any sort of paranormal show knows the appearance of orbs (light shaped like balls that move across a room, etc) usually means spirit activity. This place was overflowing with them! Yet no one mentioned them when reviewing the footage from the previous night (assuming they bothered watching that is).

So maybe the set was actually haunted??

The endless shots of the back of the house made me wonder what was going to happen there. Nothing as it turned out!!

Rose going from wanting to leave to suddenly not wanting to leave was abrupt... Muriel first saying she was connected in ways no one understood was also a surprise because as of yet Rose had not said anything about a connection. She wanted out, plain and simple. Then refused to leave!!

No not the worst film I have ever seen, not sure which one would walk off with that award (maybe the one where a couple, just the two of them, go searching for Bigfoot with no gun no knife, no nothing of the sort and then scream and cry about not wanting to die when it finds them... yeah that was pretty darn stupid so...) but this was certainly a mess.

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"Anyone who watches any sort of paranormal show knows the appearance of orbs (light shaped like balls that move across a room, etc) usually means spirit activity."


Pardon my intrusion, but please allow me to correct some inaccuracies in that which you have written:

"Anyone who has any knowledge of just about anything knows the appearance of orbs means there are dust particles in the air."

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I started reading waiting for grammar correction but instead got a good laugh. Thanks!

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I always thought "orbs" indicated the presence of pentorches and laser pointers.

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I've just watched the movie and the thing that went through my mind by the end credits was What's the Point? I mean, why make s movie that leads no where and have no point at all.. So it started interesting and even exciting at times, very promising like the plot was leading somewhere, but ended with such a plop that lead me to think that the writer/author didn't really think through before hiring a crew and cast and wasting everyone's time, he probably had a craving for making a movie and decided to scribe something quick, just to film something. Very disappointing.

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Just finished watching this and the voice over by the professor at the end talked about needing to understand what made a personality and what are ghosts and then something about parallel universes and things being outside of time. I'm not sure what they were trying to imply but I think the bombs where supposed to have done something to send the footage either back in time or to our universe (assuming their's was a different one). Like psychic lady said the bad things that happened in the house were the reason the ghosts were trapped. A nuclear explosion after a ghost terrorised you and murdered two people is a pretty bad thing... so um... yeah.

It felt very rushed and like lots of threads where just left hanging. Like the black dog in the mist at the beginning and then the house having that name etc, I felt like Old Shuck was about to leap out of the shadows but nope. No mention of supernatural dogs at all after that until right at the end were I think there were dog eyes caught in the camera for a moment when Rose was shouting about something chasing them and moving in the trees.

Or were they supposed to be seeing a shadow of themselves on the tor or something? The last bit of footage is them up there again. So maybe?

All in all I have too many questions about what was supposed to be going on and no clue what the film was even trying to say. It's like three different people wrote three different stories then they put them in a blender and a fourth person wrote the script based on the jumble that came out.

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