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Hello all, ever wondered what movies are out there that you haven’t seen? Or what a movie you’ve seen at your local movie rental hut that you never heard of might be like? Well, I’m going to bring you reviews about movies that I find out there in a movie rental house, a local underground theater, or maybe I just might stumble across something in a $.99 discount bin. So to no avail I bring you the first of many movies: Boo!.
I discovered this particular little gem when I went to my local video rental shop and kept passing it by over and over again till one day out pure curiosity I decided to cave and pay what ever amount the store charged for a non-new release. I’m sure not many of you have heard of the movie let alone watched it, so I’ll provide you with a little snaps of the story.
Five friends decide to enter a deserted hospital during Halloween for a few scares. All of them know of the hospital is cursed, even the dreaded third floor where the trouble seems to have originated. While the friends are having a good time trying to scare each other wandering the halls of the poorly kept institution, two others are interested in gaining access to the haunted hospital to search for three other girls that went missing in the hospital a week before. Trouble ensues when the two sides meet and a host of hauntings become deadly as the ghosts try to free themselves from their prison.
The film seems to suffer by unknown actors and it only adds insult to injury that they don’t seem experienced either. Due to being inexperienced, any type of realism one might expect to encounter in the same situation completely is dissolved before the story even has a chance to get off the ground. This leaves you not caring about any of the characters, waiting to see how quick and how graphic they’re all going to die. The other fault must now lie with the writers and the idea of introducing a sub-plot within the original plot. The only good actors (as good as unknowns are) are part of the sub-plot and because of this it’s more entertaining to watch than the main plot and the reason these people are at the hospital anyways.
Despite some horrible acting, the movie was not all bad. The movie won me over in the graphic and fear department. They have everything from melting people to exploding bodies and even a small creeping skeleton of a little girl locked in a closet. Some times too much blood in a horror film can make it a little cheesy, but just enough and it gets creepy and more realistic. The real key to any horror film, to really get on edge, is the atmosphere. I have to give props to both the editor and sound department who were able to steal my safe home and replace it with a rotting, damp, dark, ghost-filled hospital. A voice inside my head told me to stay away from places like that, ‘Never, ever go, even with friends.’, into a desolate building which used to house some of the sickest people. But with a movie like this, despite warnings, I still do.
It really all boils down to this. The acting left me struggling to watch the story of the film; the actors just just didn’t click. None of them seemed to act like any people in that situation would act. As soon as a haunting or a killing happened, the movie changed. It became something special. I was transfixed and found it very hard that I had to wait for the next one.
