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The Haunting of the Murder House (2022)
My god. This movie. Is terrible.
Save yourself however long this movie is (I don't care enough to check the run time, it has felt like 5 hours and I'm not even finished).
The premise is lame. A mashup of horror tropes and already-done ideas, nothing new.
Found footage fan? So am I! Don't watch this.
The acting is bad. So bad. I'm pretty sure the preppy dudes in my high school drama class who were only there to hit on the girls acted better than these guys.
Or maybe I'm being unfair. Maybe these young kids are great actors given a terrible script, much like the Star Wars prequels.
The few parts that are almost scary are so predictable it takes away from any tension at all.
I'm not even finished watching this movie but I feel like it's my moral obligation to warn people to save themselves this waste of time.
I forgot who the villain/ghosty guy is. Doesn't matter.
Also: a character just used the term "shooken up".
That's not a word.
The Gracefield Incident (2017)
Just, don't.
This movie is terrible. And not even the enjoyable type of terrible.
I'm a person who loves sci-fi and horror movies, and I'm very forgiving towards B-rated and independent films in the genre. I'll cut it some slack if it's entertaining. I even enjoy the semi-well-done found footage movie.
The Gracefield Incident isn't even entertaining. It's distractingly bad. The acting is terrible and the dialogue sounds like it was added in in post, the script is terrible full of stupid, forced exposition that doesn't make sense, the characters are instantly forgettable, and the completely lack of logic and inconsistencies drove me crazy (um, the phone tied to the longest balloon string in the universe, anyone?).
It's less than 90 minutes, but spare yourself nonetheless.
I wanted to stop watching this within the first 20 minutes, but I hung in there on the off-chance it got better (it didn't) and the chance it might be on the HDTGM podcast someday.
Watch something else.