Inner Ghosts

So few things to watch I chose this to run in the background while I screwed around on my tablet and ended up watching it. Yes it's not flashy but it's surprising well put together and well acted. It's like a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode on steroids and technologically updated. It was worth staying to the end and an unpredictable ending. What can I say without spoilers to get to the minimum of characters? Hmmmm! I enjoyed the spiritualism aspects that were handled respectfully and scarily! There's also a heck of an excellent and awful special effect of a shooting! Good effects and makeup but moderately used to highlight the story. Give it a go!

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Whoa... +1 Star For Helen's 'Tell me your name' Scene!!! -1 For What seemed to be a fairly unsatisfying ending. It was an intriguing story to me up til the end and even the last 1/3 of the movie was pretty good. The end left quite a bit to be desired for me but I'd still have to give a passing grade for the film, albeit barely.

The movie, to start with, wasn't all that bad. But the ending destroyed any good will the movie had. Three main characters, all female. All three mediums, 1 former medium, back in business, two mediums in training. For women involved in the paranormal, aware of the possibilities of contacting the dead, knowing full well that it isn't all unicorns & rainbows, they sure are hysterical. The older female, Helen, having done it in the past, has the sight, she is not as bad, but gets thrown when someone who maybe a demon attacks her. The two somewhat younger females (appear to be mid to late 20s or early 30s), have no idea about behavior. I know, they just saw their mentor slaughtered, but, ladies, you do have time to get untied & out when the killer goes to take a nap after round one of his "experiments" involving a machine designed by the dead for communication with the dead. They are tied up, rolling back & forth on the floor, crying & screaming, instezd of trying to see about untying each other. This is where everything starts unraveling. Nothing makes sense. Strobe lights, screaming, odd music, nothing gives a nice view of the end, or even an attempt at a decent ending. From the looks, about 10 minutes (at least) could have been cut out of the middle. This could have changed up the end, more time, better exposition. But, no. Overall the movie is good, but, please, don't bother with the actual end. It won't answer any questions, won't even end the movie on a decent note. You get the feeling that nothing makes sense.

I was intrigued with the story until the doctor blows the face off of the protagonist with a gun, at which point it was like I was in one of those stupid and nonsensical nightmares we all have on occasion that we want to wake up from but can't. The evil spirits are depicted properly, according to what I personally have experienced, but there is so much here that needs exploration. As it stands, the atmosphere was good, the acting was fine, but the premise needs work. I give this one 2 stars on atmosphere alone.

So, this movie was terrible, but over 10 minutes of strobe lights at the end?! Please don't watch this if strobe lights bother you. I had to leave the room.

The last several minutes are a continuous strobe. Migraine inducing. Needs a warning to this effect.

So, story goes that Helen is a medium who gave it up to study the "spiritual" element in living humans as means to communicate with those that don't have the ability to manage their memory and cognitive process well enough, such as in the case of dementia. But first she has to practice on ghosts. This produced a hysterical scene of Helen giving a ghost a mini-mental status exam question. Priceless! But, alas, poor Helen becomes fixated on the communication with ghosts and training two others who have psychic abilities. (This film posits that one can develop psychic abilities if you have the beginning abilities and are open to expanding on these.) She is rebuked by her partner (is it a business venture? an academic setting? I'm not certain.) as it isn't profitable to build research and sellable applications using ghost communication as a basis. This all leads to more improbable boring material as 3-D printing becomes essential to the process of communicating with the deceased. Somehow. This one I feel is more to be blamed on the contrivances of the script and the lazy plot points to get to the end of the story with their "shocker" of a turn of events. Hohum.

I thought at first the premise sounded interesting, but it deteriorated into a typical paranormal outing. The worst: The last several minutes are strobe lighting and cacophony. Avoid if you have any kind of seizure disorder. My head hurt for hours.

The story is a very complex, creative exploration of paranormal activity and psuedo-scientific applications. I say psuedo, but the logic behind this concept could very well be tested in mainstream science. Not all of the material but the basic stuff. "Inner Ghosts" is a good, layered story that mixes practical ghost story themes with more fantastical elements. The acting is pretty good, the characters are fully developed and relatable. At times it gets a bit too theatrical and overly dramatic, but a story where contact with ghosts in order to test and explore intelligence in an attempt to find real world application isn't meant to play straight. The writing may stretch ones sense of belief but it is well done. "Inner Ghosts" is atmospheric and filled with all the expected ghosty stuff you expect to see. At times, even with certain characters, the film is very reminiscent of "Insidious", but with a more scientific research edge. The cinematography is great. The real horror parts don't show up till the 50 minute mark. Then the film spirals into more Clive Barker territory. Overall I have some mixed thoughts towards "Inner Ghosts". I loved the story, very interesting and layered. I thought the acting was strong. I do feel that the film runs a little too long, spends too much time on the melodrama character structure for the first 50 minutes. The last 40 is impactful and hits the horror elements strong, but during the ending the story become confusing, just a bit. Still the film is a strong indie paranormal thriller.