Review #59: Grave Encounters (2011)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #7: Grave Encounters I'll get this right out there: I loved this movie. It's not perfect, but if you ever need evidence that there's a difference between good and bad found-footage I would compare this movie to something like The Dark Tapes. There are so many things this movie did that puts it above and beyond the others, that I'm shocked this wasn't a huge hit. Grave Encounters is presented as a ghost-hunting TV show about to do an eight-hour lock in inside an old haunted mental hospital. However, it begins with an interview with a TV producer explaining that this show had promise- but the episode we're about to see... turned out to be their final episode. We're shown some of the behind-the-scenes footage as they film the usual patter, paying the groundskeeper to fake a ghost sighting, asking some "random teens" about a spooky encounter they had, and having a resident ...