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I am not saying I know what a good movie is, I've watched plenty of Horror, Thriller, Psychological movies in my time and I know what passes for good. This movie wasn't terrible, but it did run on the line of a horror movie that was a movie so quickly that it the only thing you were focusing on was putting everything they were spitting out together, and not the actual movie. For Example, If you watch the movie which if you're reading this now you probably won't but in the movie, they jump back and forth in time, which is interesting but at the same time confusing. At one point you have a character high off his butt, running around shooting a gun and then he gets locked in a random room that starts flooding with water and he can't get out. You're staring at the screen asking yourself, how! Like how did the door lock? how isn't the water escaping, How is the water filling the room in the first place, and after his death his friends don't look for him and he doesn't get any more screen time like he is completely forgotten. Then you have another character who at the same time is having a procedure so it jumps back and forth, and you're not really understanding it because it's jumping back and forth and it looks like ghost is doing it to him but then it's actually him. All I am saying was the concept was there but they didn't do a good job bringing it.

I'm so sorry that my review will cut this movie up but it's garbage in every sense of the word. Loose ends, jumps, loopholes, complicated, unnecessary stuff, continuity? It's a sound story line in the first 15 minutes. But then it goes into stupid mode shortly thereafter. I mean, I found myself asking "WHY?" several times. If I saw this at a movie theater I would have walked out.

First, let me say I am not a horror film aficionado. I do not watch them, period. However I am extremely interested in urban exploration of abandoned mental hospitals. That is what peeked my interest initially. The story line is your basic way to get into these abandoned hospitals, then the visions and hysteria that accompanies infiltration once there. I agree the acting left a lot to be desired, but I think the strength of the movie lies in the depiction of suspended reality. Which is real and which is imagined scenes? The film left me a bit unbalanced as I watched the 4 struggle with their own fears while in the very secret, very restricted annex. Did anybody get the homeless guy? Well, I thought about him for awhile, then concluded he was the infamous Dr. H.H. Greiss in the flesh looking for a part of his life that was taken away from him. Watch this part carefully and see if you don't agree. I thought the plot twist at the end regarding the true relationships from the past was sheer genius, including that of Jacob and Dr. Greiss. Once again, having read the previous reviews, you should bypass the horror aspect and look at it from the perspective of hidden lives that were never fully buried. The beginning shows Pia in some sort of room. Was that a modern version of Eloise? Was it jail, what was it? In the end they go back to the room with Pia. I liked that full circle inference and the parallel to what the patients of Eloise may have experienced. It depicts being unhinged in what seems to be a reality you are lost in, when no one believes what you have seen. Was the whole affair nothing but a figment of Pia's broken brain? Hmm, did she create the sketches, the receipts, the entire story because she was crazy and had been part of Eloise as a child, then locked away in an asylum for life, where she could only create a normal life by living in her head, but not really living it? As horror, it left much to be desired. However, the story told may not be what you think, or maybe it is. You decide.

This horror movie is very boring, stupid, cliche and a waste of time ... This film is very confusing, weird ... I don't understand the storyline of this film

This story is not true; it is total fantasy. Eloise was a real place but otherwise the story is total fiction. I don't see any reviews that makes that totally clear. The story is ridiculous, as many other reviews say. It is also boring and confusing. It is boring in that there are portions that are like dramatic pauses that are quite lengthy and then not much happens after the pause; little or no drama. It is confusing because there are flashbacks but I have no idea of the relevance of the flashbacks. Sometimes the present-day characters are in the flashbacks but there is a thirty-year difference in time. Perhaps there is an explanation in the movie about how the present-day characters are in the flashbacks and if so then I was too bored to understand. If you are an Eliza Dushku fan then I think you will be disappointed; there is not much material in the movie to get much of her. She cares about her brother and is sweet like that but otherwise there is not much.

This movie is based on real location, Eloise Insane Asylum. Four young adults break into the now derelict Eloise to hunt for a death certificate needed to allow one of the four to claim his inheritance. With a great cast, excellent location and pretty good story it had all the ingredients of a solid horror. Unfortunately it just doesn't gel. There have been many movies similar which have been made much better such as Grave Encounters, Dark Feed, Reel Evil and Sanatorium. There was no atmosphere, it wasn't believable, the performances lacked charisma. It is a watchable film but is disappointing and not one that you would particularly want to re-watch.