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Laura is an agoraphobic. For one year she has
secluded herself inside her apartment. Soon
she starts realizing that all this time, she
hasn't been alone. She seeks help from an internet
ghost watcher but is there really any way to
get rid of whoever is haunting Laura's apartment?
GhostWatcher is an ultra low budget horror movie
which I've actually been dying to see for almost
two years now. Well, finally Lions Gate decided
to release this on DVD so I immediately picked it
up. And well, I know that I usually say that the
budget shouldn't matter but this time it really
did. The story is brilliant but due to a cheap
soundtrack, bad acting and the overused VHS look
that the movie has, this movie doesn't feel all
that interesting. Even if the director seem to
have done what he could with the budget, it still
doesn't look very good.
There are certain things that this movie has that
a high budget production could never have though.
It's got that whole Blair Witch feeling over it.
It feels so real since it looks so unedited which
results in that the movie creeps its way under your
skin. I read a review of this on Horror-Web and
they said that the movie had a fast pace and that
it was over before you knew it. Well I'd like to
disagree with that. Even if the story was good, it
took way too much time to develop, I'm not usually
one to complain about long build-ups and deep
character development but to tell you the truth,
I didn't think that it added anything to the movie.
In the end I didn't care all that much for the
characters anyway.
Now to the good parts about the movie. First of all,
this has some genuinely creepy moments and quite a
few jumps (and we all love those jumps right?).
Then we have, as I said before, an original and
clever storyline which kind of feels like it could've
originated from an Asian horror movie. Well, it isn't.
Here it is people, the first really scary American
ghost movie that isn't a remake of an Asian flick.
Anyway, in the end of the day, you just kind of wish
that the director would have had more money to work
with when he shot the film because the budget goes
against this one.
Some zombie intestines and a nail through the hand.
Gorier than I had expected it to be even if not very
gory. We also get a rotten zombie.
This was the worst part of the movie. Even the pop/
rock tracks in it felt like it was made with the
Cakewalk Midi for Dummies program. With a different
soundtrack this would surely have been a lot better.
Brilliant story wasted on a low budget. It feels sad
that they didn't have resources enough to bring this
script to the movie that it deserved. The movie is
creepy and scary but occasionally slow and uninteresting.
People who believe that these actors are going places
better open their eyes, the acting and the soundtrack
somewhat ruined the movie. Check it out anyway because
it's a really creepy flick!
Review By: AnthroFred
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