The Haunted House Project (2010)

One of the best films i have seen

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A team of ghost hunters is followed by a film crew to an abandoned cookie factory to investigate some supposed paranormal occurrences after some murders years earlier.After they arrive, a lot of time is spent exploring the factory and surrounding buildings, and not much happens for a while. This is the build-up stage of these types of found footage horror movies where usually some suspense is created, but not really in this case.Eventually it gets dark and things start to happen but it falls in the too little too late category, and I think it falls a little flat as the conclusion is not as scary as the filmmakers intend it to be. Another complaint I have is that once things start to go down, a creepy musical track is added to the mix, which detracts from the found footage experience.While not a terrible movie, I feel it could have been done much better.

The kind of movie that wanted to be a slowburn film up until the finale, could not help but show us the goods leading to a disappointing final 10 minutes. The thing about this movie, is that when it decides to be good, it is amazing. There are some genuinely creepy scenes that keep you on the edge of your seat. It even has a WTF! scene where you cannot believe what is happening on the screen. The only problem is, whenever something scary is not happening on screen, there is just boring scenes of people walking around and talking to each other. This destroys the pacing of the movie and makes it a chore to finish. The finale gets confusing for a bit, as you are not exactly sure what is happening. It all leads up to a meaningless jump scene that makes no sense in the context of the found-footage genre. There are even multiple scenes where there is obviously more than one camera being used.The Good- some truly great horror scenes.The Bad- rest of the movie is boring.

When I put the DVD in my player, I didn't expect too much, but I hoped for at least an amusing ghost story with enough scares to keep me interested. Yes, I was prepared for a Blair Which rip-off, and with that in mind it started out not even that bad. I liked the interviews with the locals, and I have to admit I loved the location of the haunted house. What a 'charming' pile of mess, with all that garbage everywhere. But within about 15 minutes, the story started to really bore me, and halfway I found myself totally drifting away from it. So little happened that I thought about everything except the movie itself.Unfortunately, I just cannot find too many good things to say about Deserted House. The acting was uninteresting and dull. The plot was lousy. There were hardly any good scares, and the ending, after what happened what we already knew was going to happen (the movie gave a mayor spoiler itself within the first minutes), was IMO totally unnecessary. It was also illogical, because who was doing the filming? Don't tell me it was the ghost. :) Simply said, I can not say anything else than that this movie was a complete waste of my time.

'Pyega' follows the Blair Witch Project formula almost to a t. From the setting of a documentary about a haunting to the first person hand held camera perspective to dimly lit scenes and plenty of screaming: the recipe for this type of horror has become common place at this point. Although this is a Korean movie it has none of the hallmarks of Asian cinema, instead it insists on adhering so closely to Blair Witch that it becomes nothing but an exercise in tedious repetition.The haunted house in question is half ruined to such a point that it is already dangerous without any claims to a supernatural entity with a malign intent. Perhaps the one saving grace of this movie, apart from the decent acting, is that despite a good one third of it being too dark to see anything at all in the final scenes the viewer does get to glimpse at something disturbing.Ultimately, there is not anything new or exciting about this movie and it ends up being rather disappointing. Coming in 2010 it is something of an anachronism in the world of horror in the way in reiterates well treaded ground without a hint of originality.