I’ve said once and I will say it again… I love found footage, it’s my favourite sub genre of horror as you can tell, now this film I found on Amazon years back, like I’m talking 2016 maybe 2017 the latest, I hadn’t heard of it but I gave it a go.

The film follows several young adults as they try and open a haunted house experience in a rundown abandoned hotel, they travel to upstate New York, find the hotel and open up shop, only to become victims to ghostly paranormal goings on.

The scares are good I mean they do a decent job of making you jump but ultimately they feel a little… cheap, there’s some scares that are like “shit didn’t see that coming” and there’s some that are like “oh… yeah totally didn’t see that coming” trust me some will make you eye roll so far you’ll look possessed!

There’s random stuffed costumes coming too life and there’s possession to boot , but ultimately it falls flat near the end.

Let me explain.

The film follows obviously the setting up of the haunted house attraction, we get some exposition on the backstory of the rundown hotel basically long story short, guy creates hotel guests disappear he makes up some shit and then hang’s himself in the dining room.

All the way through your guessing “what could have happened here, what matter of horrible things occurred that night” you hear that something went down in the basement, one of the actors dies and the other survives, only to kill himself months later.

It leaves you guessing and coming up with theories as to what might have happened, you see archival footage from a guests camera phone which… doesn’t give any clues, you don’t see anything happen, leaving more questions than answers.

By the time the ending rolls round we see down in the basement just exactly what happens, we see… nothing.

You see the actor that kills himself run away, some guests run away screaming and you’re left wondering “well what was it? What happened?” It doesn’t answer anything.

Then we find out the only remaining staff member is actually a ghost, she was killed that fateful night, like I said it falls flat and leaves more questions than answers.

The build up was great and the tension was there but it lets you down, it’s disappointing to the point where your sat there just thinking about the time wasted watching and waiting, and I hate it when movies do that.

They build up this event, they build it up and create tension to the point where your like an impatient child waiting to see what the surprise is.

It’s the equivalent of paranormal activity 5, you’re agonisingly waiting to see Toby in his human form, yet when it comes to that specific scene you see his legs, and then it cuts too black.

I was so disappointed with that film, like all the time watching your like “oh what is he going too look like” in the end it’s cheap foot reveal, it’s stupid, the useless amount of tension that was building up was all for… nothing.

Don’t get me wrong Hell House is a great film I’m not disputing that it’s good, it’s a good horror… but films like this need a good ending, this film sadly doesn’t have it.

It gets 6/10 from me, the scares a great, the acting is dare I say but surprisingly good, I was shocked a little, like they do bang up job at portraying terrified young adults that I did start too fell sorry for them at one point.

But ultimately it is the ending that looses points for me.

Until next time, catch ya later 🙂