The Gallows (2015)

Wonderfully offbeat film!

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

If I could give this film a lower rating I would. This has got to be the most transparently predictable and dull film I have ever seen. The writing, the performances, the camera work, everything, is terrible.The writing is so stilted and obvious its as if the writers think the audience is a bunch of idiots. Lines that are set-ups for future events are so blatant, and the writing overall is just irritating, especially anything coming out of the mouth of the cameraman, who is possibly the worst character in any film I have seen.The acting is over the top and makes the film feel stupid, which makes the already bad plot seem even worse. To tell you the plot would be a waste of time as it has no sort of worth to anyone in any way. It's that bad.Finally, the fact this is a found footage style film adds nothing to the plot, and if anything only seems to be done to keep the budget down. Again, the nonsensical plot makes it seem even more idiotic. Found footage is meant to add a layer of realism to a story and so when the story, dialogue and characters seem unnatural, it completely goes against the purpose of the filming style. It's literally just so that they can save some money and make a ton more profit than they otherwise would off this piece of crap.Overall, don't watch it, it's bad. If you want to get a better idea of how painful the film is, I suggest watching the first 5 minutes and listening closely to that stilted dialogue. It's the same throughout the entire movie, and it doesn't get better. It's awful. Don't watch.

Yeah this is a awful movie. The worst horror movie ever been made since Prom Night (2008). This so not scary including terrible acting and awful story line. This is another film I watch that I watch that I forgot to review until I watch a video about Blum House that'll mess up a horror movie sometimes. I'll break that disc if I own it and I'll never will EVER!!! Don't watch this over hype garbage just watch better horror movies like Friday The 13th, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Halloween, Hellrasier, Saw, and etc. Blum House deserve to stop making horror movies.

When I go to review a film I look to look at the reviewers who loved and hated the film to see if I have missed something when I particularly disliked a film. I was surprised to read the following about The Gallows,"This is without a doubt, quite literally, the scariest movie I have ever seen! The Poltergeist remake scared me, but this terrified me. I still have a pit in my stomach, and my heart is still thumping as I type this." this poster must go through life in perpetual fear and basic household objects must send them into spasms of terror, looking at the other reviews the are children cartoons so that might explain it."I won't give away the end, but know that it is one of the greatest twist endings I have ever seen! Bravo!""Had no idea of what kind of terror it offered"I am sorry but these must be contrived reviews, this is truly an awful, lazy film. Found footage has been flogged to death and then flogged again. This has a ridiculously contrived story line and most of the action you see is in semi or permanent darkness with the occasionally shouted "awesom" or "dude" for dialogue, it is shot in the headacre inducing hand held camera. There was nothing in the film to give me the slightest scare, the characters are flimsy and you just want the ghoul to kill them and end this pathetic film. You can tell how lazy the film is as they use the actors real first name and maybe I should give it 2 as they unintentionally introduced humour when one of the actors repeatedly gets another characters name wrong, this takes some doing as they are using their real names. Not scary, nothing, avoid.

For years mankind has wondered about the possibility of there being someone/something out there in the great expands of the universe. Another intelligent life-force that may one day visit our lowly shores to learn about us curious beings and hopefully not blast us away with advanced technology or decide to take us away for some good old fashioned experimentation. If indeed one day we find ourselves in communication with a great race equal to our technological advancements let us all hope that these visitors do not find a copy of found footage horror film The Gallows, as their judgements upon mankind may be non-recoverable.A film so daft and downright dumb it's hard to fathom how it came into existence in the first place, The Gallows as directed by duo Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing (seriously it took two people to make this turkey!) is the type of film where you can feel your brain cells disappearing with each passing minute as annoying characters make unintelligible decision upon unintelligible decision and seemingly solvable solutions are ignored in the sake of more shakily handled "scares".A new low in the past it's use by date genre of found footage horrors, The Gallows plunges to previously unseen depths of narrative drivel to tell the story of painfully badly acted teenage brats breaking into their seemingly medievally secured school to wreck the set to an upcoming play only to be haunted by an ominous fiend who locks them in the school facility (really there's not a single window that could be smashed to break out of?) to wreck all manner of nasties on them.Watch on in disbelief as these unlikeable creations knock pot plants down, "dismantle" sets by taking a piece of wood out of a stage setting and generally fail at their objective only to be bettered or worsened by the fact that their school break in just happens to be in a school that seemingly has forgone any type of security, whether it be guards, cameras, motion detectors or even the locking of a door that would take 1 minute to fix, this school does not care who wonders its grounds come closing time! It's almost as if The Gallows creators Cluff and Lofing decided they were onto narrative gold or perhaps just an easy paycheck and set forth on making their film no matter if anything actually made sense or if logic was totally bypassed, it's almost akin to a home movie production, just far less funny or enjoyable.The Gallows is neither scary or original and nothing about the film feels even remotely believable, even in a genre that's not supposed to be clothed in reality.Taking place around some seriously lax logic and scenarios, The Gallows gets its rating purely based around the fact it's something that needs to be seen to be believed as for those that thought modern day horrors and found footage films had reached their lowest ebbs, The Gallows is here to show us all that the bar has been set even lower.In other words, all copies of this film should be locked away or simply destroyed quick smart…… before the intergalactic visitors arrive! ½ an unsecured school facility out of 5