The Bell Witch Haunting

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(all spoilers here) The acting in the movie was amateur, the police were using the wrong call signs for the letters of the license plates plus they ran like they were scared. Real police would not run from a crime scene. The witch was to life like and the camera filming was overly done to look like it was a typical amateur person with a camera. The light in the living room after the mother turned it off was to easy to predict that it would turn back on. the electrician getting electrocuted while wearing insulated gloves was just wrong. The produce rand director were so into making a scary ghost story they forgot to see obvious problems.

I really wish there was a positive note to my first review, not gonna happen. Unless I was meant to laugh so hard I may or may not have weed my pants. This has to be a joke, right? I wasn't expecting too much, at least I wasn't let down, much. I have seen a few movies on a tight budget, but they still were a decent watch. This was absolute rubbish. I'm still trying to figure out why I even watched it to the end.

So at the beginning a Cop finds a car with 2 bodies near it... then we go to flashbacks of a Teen / College Birthday Party from '6 Hours Earlier' Hopefully here this is where we find out about the BELL WITCH!!!! You always think these found footage movies are going to have something new or innovative in them but of course that is very very rarely the case. -1 Star for Inserting More Officer Body Cam footage IN with the found footage. That's really annoying. -1 Star for the horrendously fake crying that went on far too long. They should have ended that scene a lot sooner.. LOL... -1 Star for the stupidity of night after night after night the daughter screaming at the top of her lungs from 'bad dreams' As a father I would have taken her to the hospital or a doctor or something after this happened a couple of times. In this case, it's happening night after night after night and the family just keeps saying 'It's okay honey! It's just a bad dream!!! ' Very stupid, And they talk like they are so superior to residents of Tennessee??? Like they just moved in and they are so superior? Oh give me a break!!!! :) Bodies are dropping everywhere yet the family stays in the House....this one...is about to get turned off. You're okay baby!!! Just keep repeating it!!!! It Will Come True!!!!! Okay I had to turn this off. The family 'response' time is just so hysterically stupid...bodies are dropping left and right and they don't get that something bad is happening. It's just tooo STUPID!!! 1/10

This is not a good movie, but if you like your movies so bad they're almost good, it's a fun watch to see just how ridiculous it gets. It'd probably go well with a drinking game. Starts off okay, but the plot is weak weak weak. Bodies drop, and people ignore the super obvious haunting stuff and just sort of stick around and ignore all the murders, big obvious monstrous stuff on their video footage, the fact everyone is going nuts, etc. The haunting itself, it's source, is barely touched upon, and all the realism and subtlety that makes a lot of these found footage films work simply doesn't exist here. Once you get past looking for a good film though, you can have fun watching it though. The same lone cop, Bungalon, keeps finding all the bodies. (The fact the spelling of his name makes me think "Bungle On" really fits). The haunting is far more Ghost Shark then it is Paranormal Activity or Blair Witch, the FX often ridiculous, whispering voices super obvious, a ludicrous amount of 911 calls, bodies, etc. The over the top antics of the climax made me laugh out loud.

This has to be one of the WORST movies I've ever seen in my life. This didn't even seem real in the least. The acting itself was terrible, and I felt like I probably could have put on a better show than what these folks did. This movie was definitely too far fetched with the events that happened for it to even be believable. There were times when I even questioned if I was watching a scary movie because some of the small things they decided to throw in there (I guess trying to be scary) were almost silly. In closing, pick anything BUT this movie because all you'll find here is amazement that this movie even made it out of the studios.

An 11 year-old with an iPhone and a vague notion of storyboarding could have done a better job. Tedious, repetitive and far too much screaming and crying. None of the characters were sympathetic...just pathetic. Less than halfway through the film I wanted them ALL to be dead just to be put out of my own misery. Also, terrible audio continuity. Some scenes I had to turn down the volume 75% for fear of ripping my speakers, then other scenes were virtually silent movie. I normally don't write bad reviews. I see a LOT of movies, so while I may have panned a few on IMDb that represents less than a tenth of a percent of the movies I have seen and enjoyed and didn't consider a complete waste of time.

I don't know why I started watching this; I know if I'd seen the 3/10 rating here, I wouldn't have bothered. The fact that EVERY cast member except one was "uncredited" would have tipped me off too, but nooooo, I had to blow off the usual IMDb check. It's my fault because it come up on Netflix streaming as "recommended" (thanks for assuming I have sh*tty taste, Netflix) and even though I vaguely recalled the title as one I was warned against by several reviewers whose opinions I trust, I had a little time to kill and figured what the hell. The opening minutes featured some gore (more than usual in a found footage movie with a "haunted house" theme) so maybe that got my attention. A big red flag came up with the voice-over acting by the cop who was supposed to have discovered the bodies was TERRIBLE. Less than five minutes after that scene the only thing keeping me watching it was my deep hatred for a certain character, (who naturally, survived the movie as a last "f-you" from the movie to me). I wanted to see her get kicked down a flight of stairs or pushed off a cliff or die brutally. This is not a good sign when it's the only thing keeping you from turning off the movie. The character was (I think, because I swear they were barely trying) supposed to be likable, too. This movie was so terrible, so boring, such an endurance test that I can't even write a traditionally-structured review for it. I have to make a list of things wrong with it instead. 1. Every found-footage horror cliché in the book used. transcription of 911 calls (even when someone on screen is clearly seen making them and you can hear everything fine, in a couple cases)? check. shaky-cam over-use? Check. There are what seemed like several 10-minute segments of someone holding the camera while they run around freaking out and all you can make out is occasionally the ground or trees. Mysterious forces throwing someone across the room? check. Night-vision footage of people sleeping while some object moves around by itself? Check. Stupid fake jump-scares where one character sneaks up on another and makes a "scary" noise as a prank? Check. 2. People keep filming after any sane person would have stopped, under the circumstances 3. I wasn't even sure who was filming what, supposedly, by the end. 4. the movie actually gets worse as it goes along. 5. some of the worst make-up "effects" I have ever seen. 6. some acting so bad it is funny instead of scary... but do NOT see this movie because it's one of those MST-3000 movies that is fun because it is so bad, this is NOT one of those movies. There is no shred of entertainment anywhere in the movie. At no point did I feel remotely scared or even mildly creeped out, nor did I care what happened to the characters (other than hoping they died horribly for being such idiots). There was no point where I was in any kind of suspense.I could see every jump scare (or what they thought passed as jump scares), or pretty much any action whatsoever coming a mile away. "Bell Witch" (I don't respect anyone involved in the making of the movie enough to go and look for the complete title) is the reason people hate found-footage horror movies. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME! Even if you watch this just to see how bad it is, you will hate yourself when it ends. I hated myself before the first hour of the movie was over. If you want to see a good paranormal found-footage movie, see "Grave Encounters". Hell, even if you've seen it already, just watch it again, you'll have a much more enjoyable time.

This movie is very stupid. Anyone with half the sense would've left when things started happening. When people you know started dying one by one, people would've drove away without packing their bags. When the father started freaking out, the mother must've felt something wrong. Any mother who loves her children would've moved out, regardless or not she loves her husband. When their daughter became like that, the protective instincts of a sane mother would've tried to find help. When their daughter suffered nightmare after nightmare every night, the parents must have felt afraid, they would do something to help, maybe get a counsellor if not a priest. And Brandon? I don't have enough words to say how the character has no sense of time and place. This is the worst kind of irresponsible 'i must film everything no matter what', kind of character. It's like watching Heather Donahue from Blair Witch Project times 5. It's that bad. And what about the days' worth of 4-5 static cameras that was placed. Colby watched it, and he didn't notice anything? Sure, there were a few scares that jumped out at you from time to time, but it was all very much expected. It did made me jump, but most other horror movies made me jump too. It was quite okay, and the actors and actresses did quite well. I put the blame on weak scripts and incompetent director.

They tried. They really did. However, the movie is like watching a bunch of talentless a**clowns trying to decide what storytelling and acting is. They literally put as one of the dates, "January 21th." I almost peed myself from laughing. The story seemed to be typed by monkeys on crack, the acting is poor, and the found footage idea just sucks this late in the game. I watched to the end so you wouldn't have to. Nothing here new or worth seeing, except the breasts flashed in the first few minutes, but as they were supposed to be high school students, you should feel bad even seeing that. Skip this movie!