Grave Encounters
It's a horror film with many nervous situations. A production crew locks themselves inside an abandoned mental hospital that's supposedly haunted to do their ghost hunting reality show. And it might prove to be all too true.
1949, Columbus, Ohio, USA
27 February 1981, Banff, Alberta, Canada
30 September 1977, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
22 November 1957, Toronto, Canada
April 10, 2012
Despite its meagre budget, Grave Encounters boasts surprisingly solid acting, vertigo-baiting hand-held camera antics and enough [REC]- style shock-horror to keep your pulse throbbing throughout.September 05, 2011
"Found footage horror" is here to stay, so let's concentrate on simply separating the good ones from the bad.May 25, 2011
The pic's creepiness factor is sufficient to rate this a notch above genre average.July 11, 2011
A ghost of a different color turns the gurneys on a hip TV production.March 30, 2015
If it reaches your hometown, seek it out and enjoy some good old-fashioned creepy thrills while clutching your date tight and trying to pretend you're not as spooked as they are.September 06, 2011
True terror needs at least some authenticity. That's perhaps too much to ask of a faked movie about a faked reality show that still can't scare up a fresh idea.November 02, 2014
An uneasy and very entertaining ghost picture.March 30, 2015
A whole heap of scary fun.September 13, 2011
Offers some decent scares once you get past the somewhat labored set-up.September 08, 2011
The filmmakers seem unaware that they're beating a dead horse. As the uniformly annoying characters stumble around, screaming and cursing, we don't give a hoot for their survival.September 04, 2011
Grave Encounters can't even pretend to be anything other than hopelessly derivative.