Some Johnny Knoxville-looking dipshit TV-host for a 'ghost hunter' show takes his production crew into a supposedly haunted asylum where they're to be locked in overnight. They mug for the cameras and wander around the dark halls with a phony psychic, until their tech-guy disappears and each of them begin experiencing malevolent, ghostly energy on and off camera as they struggle to escape the abandoned building.
As far as supernatural horror flicks go, I'm a bit stuck in the past with shit like "The Legend of Hell House" and, of course, "The Shining" being a few standout examples for me, personally, and I really have to stand by "The Blair Witch Project" as being one of the best FF movies I've seen. It's got it's haters, but I'm still on the other side of the fence as far as that goes. These days, however, they don't seem to know how to play their 'subtlety cards' properly. It's either too subtle or much too over-the-top UNsubtle. "Grave Encounters", like most of them, does the boring slamming doors shit up until a certain point when it just gets so excruciatingly obnoxious and expectedly climactic. Once again, we've got 'spirits' that look like the mutants from "I Am Legend" and roar/shriek like some kind of radiation-conceived beast from a Godzilla movie. That shit has gotten so overplayed that it's almost unendurably irritating. With typically uncreepy, jump-scare heavy bullshit. Bickering characters running around in disorientating night-vision. Overuse of CGI, which inevitably kills the whole 'found footage' realism vibe and, oh my god, "Grave Encounters" goes ALL IN with that shit toward the end. If you're tired of the same old horror retreads, then you shouldn't bother with this one. If you want a FAR superior haunted asylum film, check out "Session 9".
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