No Tell Motel (2012)

Very Cool!!!

Boring

An absolute waste of money

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This is a pretty decent horror movie with a couple of different twists to it. It did however have some of the cliché horror movie scenarios, and was a bit predictable in the beginning. Then of course there were several typical horror movie no-no's that were done. But, seemed to be a pretty good story, and it kept me engaged because I wanted to see if I was able to predict what was going to happen, or were they going to surprise me. But, there were many times in the film to where the actors reacted to a life situation way to calmly, and I was thinking to myself, "there is no way that if that really happened in life, would they react like that. I do recommend this film, and it will be interesting to see what you think about it.

Getting stranded at a roadside motel, a group of friends find themselves trapped in the area by a gang of ghosts looking to change the fortunes of how they died and must find a way of stopping it from happening.This is an overall run-of-the-mill ghost film that really doesn't offer too much one way or another about providing good parts or bad. The fact that the whole film barely offers up any kind of rational explanation for what's going on really mar this one because it's the one that does the most damage to what's going on here. The brief running time, itself a problem on numerous levels, never gives us a change to get fully invested in anything or even a chance to develop any sort of coherent storyline between what's happening and who these people are that have stumbled onto the secret, haunted location. It's only in the final, closing minutes that something resembling an explanation is offered for why everything's going on and it's tacky, hokey and completely unrealistic in many ways, offering one of the wackiest and most nonsensical explanations ever for what kind of haunting story this really is. The fact that there's so little time to work through things and just spends so much time on them wandering around the hotel itself in their own little groups with their own problems is somewhat boring and infuriating to sit through, and all of these go right back to the film never offering up a lot of explanations about what's going on in here. There's some bright spots, though, with the fact that the opening explanation for why the particular locale is haunted does make some rather chilling moments than what would be expected in such a film as this, and it leads into the explanation rather nicely as it is. As well, there's a few rather intense scares throughout this one as the hauntings come at quite unexpected times and allow for a few chilling surprises to come out. While not entirely flawed, this one does have enough to lower it from it's supposed strengths.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, children-in-jeopardy, heavy drug use and Rape.

There's a line in one of my favourite films called Ratatouille (though I feel I'm soiling it by even bringing it up here) that tells us Anyone Can Cook... even a rodent. Well, anyone can make a horror film... even an idiot. But that doesn't mean they should. Especially one devoid of scares, where the dumb people barely react when their 'friends' bite the bullet, and when the 'twist' is like, the stupidest thing EVER in the history of mankind. And yes, we all know little girls who just stand there staring at you saying nothing, are naturally creepy, but overuse this formula and you're liable to be accused of lacking ideas. The dude behind the camera here hasn't got an original thought in his noggin.It's not big, it's not clever and it certainly isn't the least bit enjoyable. F's all round, and back to film school for you, Mr Wannabe. Sometimes, I think it would be easier to teach a cat to fetch than make a decent scary movie... 3/1

So I have no idea what happens during the last ten minutes or so... my flash crashed while I was watching this. I just picked some random movie to watch online and munch on my snacks, but this turned out to be really good, even joined IMDb to review this. So, please if anyone would do a whole synopsis thing, to know what happens at the end? I jumped a one time or two. Children are the spookiest thing I know from scary movies, and in a way this is like Pet Sematary where it isn't the cat that gets to die. It is very dark and looming filmed all the way and I like that. It is not all happening in the dark though like some films are way too dark. So I was thinking whether the acting is 'right' for this kind of movie, but mostly you are inside the characters. This could be a predictable film! But you have to just cast this aside like the kids do with that swing that swings by itself, while talk hotheadedly about something...