Synopsis
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
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Cast
- Sean RogersonLance Preston
- Ashleigh GryzkoSasha Parker
- Merwin MondesirT.C. Gibson
- Mackenzie GrayHouston Gray
- Juan RiedingerMatt White
- Arthur CorberDr. Arthur Friedkin
- Luis JavierJavier Ortega (Gardener)
- Shawn MacdonaldMorgan Turner
- Bob RathieKenny Sandoval
- Benjamin WilkinsonJerry Hartfield
- 60
Variety
The picture's creepiness factor is sufficient to rate this a notch above genre average. - 38
Slant Magazine
Twelve long years after "The Blair Witch Project" pushed the first-person-POV subgenre to horror's forefront, and four years after [Rec] expertly refined the formula, Grave Encounters can't even pretend to be anything other than hopelessly derivative. - 30
Village Voice
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. - 30
The New York Times
As the uniformly annoying characters stumble around, screaming and cursing, we don't give a hoot for their survival. Quite the reverse: we're counting the minutes until the asylum's ghostly inhabitants silence them for good.