Trace

This film should have been called Straight to DVD instead of Trace or Straight from Hell. It is the usual death-fest with a banal twist that is not fully explained. At the end of the day it is predictable and tedious in the extreme.

This movie gets a 3/10. That's being generous really also. These other high scoring reviews, are pretty pathetic.

I have given this movie a four star rating even though it was just okay, why? Well I enjoyed it even though stories like this have been done and been done better than this movie. The acting was not bad for this b movie and the story carried itself pretty well for most part and that is where this movie falls apart. Like a lot of cheap movies sometimes even if the time of the movie is less than an hour and a half they tend to fall short of the running time and just go over old ground and this is where this movie went. The scary bits were not scary at all, the effects were very minimal which was fine for where this movie was going but overall it just went flat. Watch this if you don't have anything better to watch.

One of those films you think isnt bad until it just ends with no end to the story. You can guess what actually happened but that's it.

I liked the set up, and the ideas were pretty good, but I don't think the execution was there. I know EVP is something horror films are covering now, and even though EVP itself isn't a good theory. It's a great theme for a horror, and the beginning of the film is right it was studied in Russia during the Cold War. I liked the fact they were meant to be students studying sound. It was a nice touch. The actors weren't that good, I wasn't really drawn in, or find it remotely scary and the ending was a bit boring. It's certainly no Banshee Chapter which covers a similar theme but it's much scarier. It had potential, but it didn't quite reach it.

Although it seemed like a step-up from like a film school final project (which I don't mean as an insult), I liked the simplicity of it... it was straight to the point and I would've given it a good grade. Another paranormal film but I haven't seen anything that was heavy on the EVP. So that's what intrigued me to watch it. The only part of the film that I would change is the phone call to Nick from Abigor. Not the phone call but the exchange. I understand the need for the exposition but if it wasn't for the content I would've forgot that Abigor was a demon. It was because his voice wasn't distorted as in other scenes. Even the scene with Jenn, although his voice occasionally mixed with her mothers voice, it was eerie and had my attention. But with Nick I eventually got distracted and then annoyed. Would I buy it? Nah... Would I watch it again? Maybe... probably, but not anytime soon... and as long as I don't have to pay for it, lol -- 12/24/15

Instead, it was SO bad I had to watch it all the way to conclusion to see how it ended. EVPs are a joke, this movie was a good try, but it was a joke too. Maybe if the cast hadn't been so juvenile and immature, I might have thought better of this film, but the whole...let's summon a demon for fun...crap is old, weak and done to death. I wonder how many stupid kids will watch this equally stupid movie and emulate it? Now, THAT would be a horror movie. Avoid, avoid, avoid...

I am someone who tends to watch films over and over again, but generally only films I enjoy watching, I have watched this film many many times. I also don't bother writing reviews very often (usually just leave ratings). I simply do not understand why the rating for this film is so low. The acting is mostly of a good standard, cinematography, special effects and score are also of a good standard. Story line is believable, and has a good atmosphere about it though there are some slight changes I would have made, but i would encourage any horror/scifi fans to give this film a chance as i don't feel that the current rating and reviews do it justice. Xsagaroth

Tedious Californian 21 yrs olds. Whom can't act and are offensive to the eye. I'm sick and tired of gratuitous scenes of coke snorting. If it's a film about drug misuse then fine. Also the production was so so bad that the iPhone they have 1 between them has a white tape across the back over the logo. Obviously Apple want nothing to do with this film and I don't blame them.

the only reason I tried out this movie was because it had the EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) gimmick attached to it. I first saw this in a horror movie "White Noise" 2004 with Michael Keaton and it was fun, even a bit scary for how young I was at the time. The people making this film seem not to understand what EVP even is. Of course it's not a real thing --- there's no such thing as ghosts --- but the idea of the phenomenon, being able to hear very faint voices in static or empty background noise of audio recordings, is a fun and scary concept to play with. This film seems not to understand this at all, as every instance of EVP that is shown involves no soft, barely audible sounds that might be voices, but some loud as hell stereotypical "demonic voice" clearly and unambiguously speaking words, easily understood and understandable just by turning the volume up slightly. On top of that the film seems to give up on this gimmick around half-way through and begins to resort to the stereotypical haunting gimmick, with visual hallucinations and spooky dreams. Just listening to an EVP once seems to cause the demon to just instantly attack the person and try to kill them. No subtlety, no suspense, no slow-burn creepiness, just a full-blown Big Scary Face In A Mirror and then kill. Underlying the failure of the main gimmick, the writing and dialogue is abysmal. It's so terrible it's impossible to tell if the actors are genuinely bad or just too inexperienced to make anything worthwhile out of the script