Death of a Ghost Hunter

Plot synopsis:
Ghost hunter Carter Simms is offered $5,000 to stay a weekend in the Masterson house to investigate paranormal activity. The owner of the house also hires Colin Green as the videographer and Yvette Sandoval as a journalist. Together they set up equipment and begin searching for evidence of ghosts or paranormal activity.
The group is then joined by Mary Young Mortensen, a young member of the Mastersons' church. She claims she was also sent by owner of the house to assist in the investigation. She also states that she is there to protect the reputations of the Mastersons because they were great members of their church.
The group stays in the Masterson house for three days. Several mysterious things happen: The room temperature in the master bedroom lowers dramatically in a short period; a chair moves on its own; a gunshot and mysterious voices are recorded and some ghostly figures are recorded on video.
By the beginning of day three, Colin gets a call from the owner of the house and it turns out Mary Young Mortensen was never supposed to be at the house; so Carter forces Mary to leave.
Later that night, nothing much is happening, but the group reviews a video tape and sees a figure in the guest house. As they are going to investigate the guest house, we flash to a scene where Mary is on a radio talk show concerned about the people out to discredit the good name of the Mastersons. She convinces herself she needs to stop them and returns to the house.
Mary then begins killing all members of the group, writes a note, and commits suicide much like the mother did in the opening scenes of the movie.
It turns out Mary was the small child left by the mother in the opening scene. She was rescued before she drowned and apparently adopted by the first officer to arrive on the scene. As Mary is preparing for her suicide, she tells the sordid story of the Mastersons, involving the imprisonment, rape and torture of her mother who eventually became pregnant with her. The birth of Mary caused Mrs. Masterson to kill her family and Mary's mother.
As the movie ends, it switches to a scene where Carter is seen looking at and into an infrared camera. She is now a ghost in the house, unable to leave along with the other ghosts.

Tags: murder

Review:
Shows like Ghost Adventures and A Haunting can tell stories like this in 60 minutes with commercials, so you can imagine how they try to stretch things out in this movie.
It's relatively low-budget - shot on video, and the first little bit of the film makes you think 'how can this be any good?' But trust me, this film had me seeing things in the shadows at the end of the hall before it was half over.
For a B movie, the acting is decent, the filming isn't bad.
I don't know, I guess after watching so many horrible B movies I get really excited when a good one comes along.
Along with her, a video guy and a reporter (to write the story) are hired to stay with her, along with a member of the local church who wants to make sure that the original family's name isn't tarnished.
There is activity in the house as the mystery of what happens unfold throughout the 3 nights ending in the death of the ghost hunter (hence the name) Carter.
The film has an eerily true story feeling about it, like Blair Witch meets an American Haunting.
The thing that brought this movie down was the acting on the part of the two people helping the investigator.
There are many things that will take you out of a movie, bad writing, bad acting, bad story, and overall bad cinematography.
So, if you're one of those people who like really bad movies, this is kind of in your alley, but if you want a suspenseful, scary ghost movie, I recommend Poltergeist.
(Mainly because there's a scene in Death of a Ghost Hunter where the main character gags with disgust after some mentions the latter, I guess she's allergic to good movies)..
The story was there for this film as well as the low budget editing showing the little girls ghost which was the creepiest thing I've ever seen.
Now I watched this movie on my tablet with ear buds in and I will challenge any horror fan that likes ghostly type movies to watch this one the way I did then review Death of a Ghost Hunter based on how creeped out you were.
The whole thing was just to staged for that.Now, don't get me wrong, "Death of a Ghost Hunter" is good entertainment, and it does have an interesting and somewhat creepy story.
This lack of lighting does work well for the movie, as you are kept in suspense and kept in the dark (duh!)."Death of a Ghost Hunter" tells the story of a family killed in a house, and now the house is apparently haunted.
There is a nice twist to the story, though it wasn't all that difficult to figure it out before it was initially revealed in the movie.The acting in "Death of a Ghost Hunter" was actually good enough, and the cast was all unknown faces, to me at least.
You should know that the movie is limited to a short list of cast and characters, however it doesn't hinder the movie in any way."Death of a Ghost Hunter" is in the likes of "Paranormal Activity" and "The Blairwitch Project", so if you liked those types of staged documentaries, then you might want to give "Death of a Ghost Hunter" a chance as well..
Carter Simms is a ghost hunter that investigates haunted houses.
Death of a Ghost Hunter is not a good movie.
This is explained in the way of, "I like to leave houses as I find them, it keeps the supernatural ambiance" or some such rubbish.Still, for all that, it does make your spine tingle in a few places.But, the poor acting and the terrible sound (ie.
Scared of believing that there is someone in the world who's acting is that bad (particulary the church girl) and they can still get employed to work in a film..
Looks like the film was shot on a tight budget and tight time-line.
But the story was pretty good, way better than most of the horror schlock that actually gets big budget money.
Average horror movie regarding a paranormal investigator who is assessing a house for supernatural activity.
The movie is more spooky than scary.The genre has been done to death and there are many better movies out there about ghost hunters.
She did okay with what she was given, but I wish they had cast someone who didn't look so hardened.Because the writer wants you to believe this is a documentary (it isn't), night vision film is used sporadically - it shows as green and is common in these types of movies.
The back story of what actually happened in the house occurs towards the end of the movie so most of the loose ends are tied.Finally, this isn't a splatter or CGI film, so if that's your thing, you might want to skip it.
First of all the acting in this movie was horrible needless to say the movie itself was great.But come on we have seen better acting in the smurfs but the scares were good the story was awesome.
It just shows viewers that not even the church is safe from what we call ghosts and attacks from the other side.But enough of that back to the movie i thought the plot was too open there were holes in it everywhere and if someone could please do a remake of this film with some intelligent actors and actress's then i think this movie could be worth buying but for me its a 5/10.
Only rarely does a film emerge that truly defines the word 'horror!' I sat with a modest expectation of some late night creepiness, tucked up on the sofa, only to find myself praying that someone would murder ME before the movie was over.
The camera work was like watching a chimp with a camcorder, the acting was pretty bleak (sorry actors, you just sucked) and the story had all the structure of a detonated nail bomb.
I would definitely recommend this film to someone who is looking for an interesting movie to watch.
Don't let the really bad acting get in way of creepy movie.
Now that I was in Mood to watch Found footage movie, i thought this was really good.I found that the movie flowed really well and I didn't get bored at all, thinking the movie was bit too long at times there were some good decent creepy moment in this movie that I really liked.Also really liked effects in this movie was very good and knew that twist that coming, I loved the back story of the movie was really good.
That being sad, this is actually a pretty good movie.The title says it all but the road to the hunters death is interesting.
A ghost hunter, film crew, and a representative of the church walk into a haunted house...sounds like the set up to a joke.
I hate to say that this was a really bad movie, because I like to think there is a gem in every bad horror flick and especially because I already spent nearly two hours watching it, but this was really a bad movie on multiple fronts.My biggest problem: story development.
A poorly made movie with low budget effects can be saved by an interesting story.
Yes, this film had its creepy bits, but the acting was stiff on occasion, and since this was so prevalent, that was the director's fault for not bringing out the best in the actors.All in all, the movie didn't add up to much because of plot holes and an ending you could see coming from the beginning.
Otherwise, it's not even worth a rental - unless you like bad and thoughtless story lines.*Spoilers Below*Although a good concept, the movie gives itself away at the twenty minute mark when we meet Mary Young, a twenty-year-old Christian extremist who was asked by the home's owner to join the investigative team.
Obviously the writer/director had some bad experiences with religious people in his past, and decided to use this movie as a way of "getting back" at everyone.
No one in chat rooms can tell.All because of a few lines of text at the head of DEATH OF A GHOST HUNTER: "In 2002 renowned ghost hunter Carter Simms was offered $5000 to perform a paranormal investigation of the Masterson house.
Carter Simms (Patti Tindall) is the "renowned ghost hunter," for guys who like the S.I.L.F. type (Spinsters I'd Like To--), who spends three nights in the trusty house-with-murder-in-its-past, to determine whether it is haunted.
Now that's scary.Carter Simms is joined by a king dork videographer (Mike Marsh, also the co-writer) and a big-bootied brainless bimbo who looks like Ru Paul (Davina Joy, whose body just screams 'screwing her way to the middle'); Lindsay Page the Jesus Freak completes this F-Troop.Writer-director-DP-editor, Sean Tretta, tries sincerely to make a scary movie, with ominous music, morbid concepts, old-fashioned scares (rather than CGI) - but mainly by keeping all the lights off.
Still, Tindall is no Streep - her toneless opening narration is as chillingly blank-eyed as the narration in THE CREEPING TERROR.Story goes from illogical to just plain stupid: Carter tells her drogues, "Ghost hunting is the process in which paranormal investigators use modern technology to obtain tangible evidence regarding the existence of life after death." I can't even begin to deconstruct the senselessness in this statement.
And after screaming amateur at us - from the slipshod editing, to lighting a room by shining flashlights on each other's faces - Tretta has the brass-balled audacity to have his characters mention revolutionary movies like THE EXORCIST and BLAIR WITCH.While the videographer constantly changes batteries, missing all the "haunted" action, such as chairs moving and ghosts actually appearing, the bimbo mills about aimlessly, and the Jesus Freak tries to subvert the investigation because she's a good Christian, and must protect the reputation of the good Christian lady who mass-murdered the family in the house.
So while wearing a religious head-box (like something out of CARRIE), she kills all the "ghost hunters" - because that's what good christians do.The "ghost hunters" tell us that supernatural "hauntings" occur because the people in that locale were murdered violently.
and there may be more of a threat from the living than the dead.Over the years, countless films have been made regarding paranormal investigation and ghost hunting (yes, they are two different things).
The typical low-budget errors are obvious: it's cheap-looking from the low-end video equipment, the acting isn't very good, the audio is muffled and out-of-sync at times, etc.
I didn't think it would be, seeing as the film starts immediately with two factual errors involving definitions of phrases: 'Ghost hunting' is when a hunter goes to an area where no paranormal activity has been noted in hopes of finding something while a 'paranormal investigator' goes to supernatural hotspots where activity has been witnessed (or at least BELIEVED to be witnessed).
It's a film that should satisfy someone looking for a rational look at paranormal investigation, but it's not the type of film that will ever live as one of the 'great ghost stories' of our time.
It isn't until the fates of all involved are decided, where the film takes an alternate route to show us what actually happened to the Mastersons, as well as, some dirty, little secrets which pollute their supposedly saintly reputation as beloved God-fearing servants of the Lord.I think the most indelible image which might be remembered is the the ghost girl peeking from her room, but other moments are almost just as creepy: a captured image of a ghost named Miranda(who becomes an important figure in why the murders took place, herself a devastating victim of religious fanaticism and hidden sexual deviance)moving across a window from another building across from the Masterson house, the "headdress"( a device which locks on a victim's head, costumed with crucifixes), and nude photographs which spill out of a bible found in a closet.
Death of a Ghost Hunter starts on October 17th 2002 as paranormal investigator Carter Simms (Patti Tindall) arrives in the small town of Queens Creek in Arizona where she is being paid $5,000 to conduct an investigation into the notorious Masterson House where an entire family were brutally murdered twenty years ago.
Over the course of three nights they experience supernatural activity which is linked to the homes violent past, Carter believes she has 'tangible evidence' that there is life after death...Edited, photographed, produced, written & directed by Sean Tretta I thought this ghost film was pretty terrible on all fronts.
The film revolves around the modern MTV style trend of Ghost Hunting, you know the sort of show's like Real Scary Stories (2000), Ghost Hunters (2004) & the UK equivalent Ghost Hunting with 'add celebrity name here' in which various 'experts', celebrities & ordinary members of the public are filmed in supposedly haunted locations on blurry night vision camera equipment & overact terribly.
The character's are poor, the dialogue is dull & at almost two hours the pace is gruelling, I really wanted to bail out on several occasions but just about managed to stick with it.Horror films & haunted house horror films in particularly need a certain atmosphere & feel to be effective & that's one of my biggest problems with Death of a Ghost Hunter since it takes place in a very bland house.
Despite all the films claims that Carter Simm was real & the events portrayed were real Death of a Ghost Hunter is in fact totally fictitious & made-up.Probably shot on a budget that wouldn't cover a round of drinks at my local pub Death of a Ghost Hunter really does look like it was shot by a bunch of friends in their middle class house on camcorders for fun & then decided to release it.
The acting is weak from the whole five people in it.Death of a Ghost Hunter is an awful cross between one of those reality ghost hunting TV show's, The Blair Witch Project & The Haunting.
They both left me a little underwhelmed and the movie version was a messy version of the real story and relied too much on fast cuts and loud sound effects to try to scare you.
I don't know, perhaps I smoking crack.Death Of A Ghost Hunter is virtually zero budget and yet is a far superior movie.
In 2002 renowned Ghost Hunter, Carter Simms, was offered $5,000 to perform a paranormal investigation of the Masterton house.
It was creepy and engaging and I wanted to applaud the film makers for making such a surprising low budget gem.Not that the movie isn't without flaws.
In small doses this can be effective but they overdo it so it's a little annoying.Neither of those things were enough to spoil the movie and I found the ending satisfying and the story of the Masterton family fascinating.It ends with the following text, "Since the events in 2002, the Masterton house has been regarded as one of the top 10 most active hauntings in America.
I searched online but was severely disappointed to find no information about the case other than other people who'd seen the movie either asking around for information or rather annoyed claiming the movie wasn't based on a true story at all.I felt cheated; there is no such case and the film makers lied to me.
It could be argued that the Blair Witch Project did the same thing but it was obvious that that wasn't really found footage and they didn't go into detail with text on the screen and narrated journal entries.If I ever met the Director Sean Tretta I wouldn't know whether to shake his hand for making one of the better no budget movies I've seen or give him a slap.
I was kind of upset by this movie-- not because it was scary but because it could have been SO GOOD but the acting and filming were just so poor it was completely ruined.
Well, imagine those cut-scenes assembled into a feature length movie- you have "Death of a Ghost Hunter." The acting is beyond made-for-TV bad, the camera work is blair-witch-esquire "make me want to vomit", the special effects are laughable, and the story is, well, sub-par.
Rather than ending now, the film goes on painfully to apparently show Carter as a ghost in the house now, and by this point the story has long since ended and what unfolds here is a sad epilogue to a poorly-made film lamenting the fate of a character no one cares about..
This was one of the better ghost stories/hunting houses/ movie I've seen so far.
"Death of a Ghost Hunter" is NOT one of those examples.The only thing that could have saved this movie is a decent story and one that stays completely relevant to its title but "DoaGH" doesn't do that.
The story tries way too hard to make a twist ending that the actual established subject of the film suddenly takes a backseat and the film looks like it is scrambling to tie up all its loose ends—this ends up giving the movie more endings than it needed.
(Seriously, how can a film be edited like this?)The Story was a bit unusual - not very predictable (although some reviews her have argued otherwise) and the ending was strange.
I would liked to have seen her character become a bit more developed in the story, as she added a creepy sense of uneasiness to the whole vibe (maybe instead of the wacky ending).The simple special effects were effective, and well placed.
If they'd have used more simple video camera shots - I think it would have covered up the low-end production that was so obvious from the start (as Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity did.) That's a turn-off for many who will probably never give this film a chance once it begins.The music was excellent!