Ghosthunters

Plot synopsis:
A group of paranormal investigators, Neal, Henry, Jessica, Neal's girlfriend Amy, and Jessica's girlfriend Devon, have arrived at a house where Henry's wife and daughter were murdered by a serial killer known only as the Night Stalker. The team hopes to free the pair's souls via a device created by Neal, which can capture ghosts and seal them in containers. As the investigation proceeds Devon leaves and is killed by a floating knife while another Amy experiences a series of visions. These visions not only show her the deaths of Henry's wife and daughter, but also reveal that Henry is the Night Stalker. Henry had murdered them as part of a paranormal experiment, in the hopes that their extreme distress would amplify paranormal energy. Amy manages to get a recording of Henry confessing to the murders, an action ends with Henry shooting Neal with a gun he was carrying with him. Amy and Jessica flee, but are caught by Henry. They are almost shot, but are spared when the ghost of Henry's wife appears and distracts him long enough for Jessica to break the containers of ectoplasm. The now released ghosts attack Henry, giving Amy and Jessica a chance to escape - only for Jessica to get shot and die. The film ends with Amy, the sole survivor of the night's events, leaving the house as police arrive.

Tags: paranormal, violence, murder

Review:
Asylum aims for the middle again..
I signed up for IMDb just to write this review.
I think that is an important thing to make note of.
I came into possession of this movie and saw NO reviews of it, only a semi-favorable rating.
I thought, "I can enjoy a bad horror movie now and again, so why not give it a go?
I should not have given it a go.Whenever you start a horror movie and the "Asylum" logo appears on screen, you already know what to expect.
Unless you're drunk, you will not enjoy this movie.
The acting is bad.
The visuals are mediocre.
The story is uninteresting and you will predict the ending at around the 30 minute mark of the movie.
You may ask yourself if you should even bother continuing to watch at this point, the answer is no.There is a woman in this movie who is supposed to be hacking for some reason, I guess she's hacking ghosts?
I stopped paying attention to what she was supposed to be doing when I realized that her computer screen was just a random number generator and she was mashing keys haphazardly the entire time.
There is a scene where shadowy ghoulish figures appear - however it is clear that they are just men in black morph suits, complete with visible wrinkles and seams.The best part of the film is right at the end when the credits are over and you can go reflect about how you wasted about 90 minutes of your life and you will never get them back..
not so bad.
This film is not so bad, there were some scary moments but the story is really simple and easy to predict, if you don't have any film to watch and this comes up, I'd say go for it...the acting was pretty average also.
there were some good scary scenes and some gore to the film.
I just wished they would had a more complex storyline which would made it scarier but I was expecting a really bad film but I was proved wrong.
Watched it with my wife who's an avid horror fan and she was not thoroughly disappointed with the movie.The director of the film and the special effects team should be given praise as well.
There aren't a lot of American horror movies but this one should be given a look or two at..
Deadly dull ghost hunting.
Have made no secret in the past of intensely disliking, and even outright hating a lot, a vast majority of The Asylum's (near-universally maligned for good reason) output, though there is curiosity as to whether they are capable of making something good and compulsive about their output's badness.
Admittedly, The Asylum do have a small group of watchable films and the occasional (big emphasis on that word) above average one, unfortunately outweighed by the lacklustre at best and often dreadful films they churn out.'Ghosthunters' is not quite one of The Asylum's all time worst, they've definitely done worse that have been more amateurish and insulted the intelligence more.
With that being said, even when taking it for what it was, and from watching other films from The Asylum it is abundantly clear it shouldn't be taken seriously, it was a very poorly executed film and towards the bottom, compensated only by some eerily creepy scenery.Visually, 'Ghosthunters' looks incredibly cheap even for something made on a low budget.
It's very drably and sometimes dizzyingly shot, incoherently edited (bacon-slicer-like) with glaring and unforgivably sloppy continuity errors, wasting some eerie-looking scenery.
Regarding the effects, they still look very cheap though and like they were an afterthought and made in haste.
The ghosts look goofy and too reminiscent of people in costumes and are not scary at all.
Am aware of the film being low-budget, but there are examples of low-budget films that still don't look awful and manage to be pretty good.Can remember little about the music, which tended to be intrusive, annoying and out of place.
The script makes little sense, sounds awkward constantly and on the wrong side of camp throughout.Nothing thrilling, tense, suspenseful, emotionally investable or fun about the story.
The predictability (with the ending being incredibly obvious very early on) may have been forgivable if the film was actually engaging let alone exciting but it fails to be either throughout.
'Ghosthunters' is basically non-stop dullness, and intelligence-insulting ridiculousness, with a complete lack of tension, suspense, scares or even atmosphere.
There is also, as is the case with a lot of The Asylum films, unintentional humour because of the excessive cheese and laughably goofy interpretations of the ghosts, numerous illogical moments, bouts of mawkish drama (couldn't get behind the whole derivative and over-sentimental previous circumstances regarding the family murders, should have been tense and affecting but was neither) and irritating character behaviours that makes one endear to them even less in a film with not one interesting or rootable character.Acting sees the actors either over-compensating or sleepwalking through their roles, nobody gives a halfway decent performance and instead never rises above mediocre (often awful).
In summary, deadly dull.
1/10 Bethany Cox. Great Film, Amazing Acting.
What a wonderful surprise.
As a horror fan I highly recommend Ghosthunters.
It has a great twist that was very unexpected, also a story line that makes sense.
I am familiar with Pearry Teo's work, having recently seen The Curse of Sleeping Beauty.
This film exceeded that film by far for me.
The acting was incredible, stellar casting.
I was very impressed with the emotional level and the adrenaline of the actors.
The cinematography was also very well done.
The set of the house also looked great (Curse of Sleeping Beauty) fell short for me in that department.
I would definitely give this one a spin.
I actually just purchased the DVD as well..
Why oh why was this movie ever made.
This was a very feeble attempt at making a serious scientific scary movie.
At no point during this movie did I experience even an iota of fear or dread.
It was one cliche after another stolen from some of the best scary movies but failing miserably in its execution and delivery.
I may as well have watched this one with all the lights on (I always watch scary movies with all the lights off for maximum effect) and the experience would have been the same.
The plot twist at the end was absolutely ridiculous and nonsensical.
Which basically sums up the movie.
Don't waste 90 minutes on this you'll only walk away saying wtf..
Asylum's dud.
GHOSTHUNTERS is another cheapie from The Asylum, released to capitalise on the GHOSTBUSTERS all-female reboot.
This has nothing to do with any of the Hollywood films and instead is a typical low budget haunted house horror flick in which a team of paranormal investigators set up base in a haunted house in order to capture the spirits living there.
One of the team has a personal connection to the dead but that's all the depth you're going to find.
This is slow, slow stuff indeed, with rubbish direction and stilted acting.
The gloomy visuals are sleep-inducing and the whole thing has an air of tired predictability..
Run the decoder!.
The film opens with the horrific deaths of Martha (Phyllis Spielman) and Gabby (Anna Harr) by a man with a mask and a voice enhancer so we can't understand what he is saying.
Henry (Stephen Manley) the father in the family invites a team of ghost hunters to a home so he can put their souls to rest after they were tortured for a long period of time with the home prepared for torture.Our team has special glasses to see ghosts and a machine to capture them and turn them into ectoplasma that is not fluorescent green.
Oh yes they have that binary thing to extract a voice.You have the film figured out when the guy inside the house behind the police barricade opens the door.
This is a poorly conceived Asylum mockbuster for the new and most likely better "Ghost Busters 2." It is a bad combination of ghost/slasher movie, filmed at one location to save money.Guide: No sex or nudity.
No swearing in FF mode.
Pearry Reginald Teo should not be writing or directing films.
He sucks at it.