Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

re-animatresse well, the premise is interesting – a group of friends travelling Texas and Louisiana in search of a secret haunted house experience that's supposedly more 'extreme'/scarier than any other. unfortunately the execution doesn't do the story justice the camera never stops bouncing and swiveling like the director is jerking off with it through the entire film. seriously, it's bad even for the found footage style. the first 30 minutes are primarily dull, seemingly unscripted banter between dull, undeveloped characters. i guess the lack of scripted dialogue is meant to add to the documentary-style, found footage presentation, but it doesn't really add anything to the story, and you can stretch it out only so far before it begins to look like obvious filler. edit out all the unnecessary parts of this film and shorten the scenes that drag on to the point of killing all tension, and you'd have a marginally interesting 20 - 30 minute short. i can't imagine why anyone thought it needed a sequel, or who would want to sit through it after having watched this, but i for one will be looking elsewhere for entertainment this holiday season

nangle-63372 If I could I would give this movie a 0. This is a terrible movie. Its an hour and 30 minutes i watched a whole hour and didn't see one good thing happen, nothing scary happened at all and there was absolutely nothing that grabbed my attention. Not even a slightly thrilling thing happened and there was way too much just talking about random things, it might as well be a documentary about these peoples lives because nothing interesting happens.

bachemar While this movie has some little scares here and there, it ultimately falls flat. The premise is a bit fresh for the found footage genre: Four friends on a road trip to find the best "extreme" haunt, but inadvertently bring the haunt to themselves. The acting is decent, the movie looks pretty good but sadly those are the only pluses. The scenes at the various haunted houses were the most interesting part of this movie to me, as the absolute idiocy of the characters stretched my suspension of disbelief. **SPOILERS** For example, after being accosted by various haunted house workers MULTIPLE TIMES while parking their RV in the middle nowhere over the course of the movie, the characters CONTINUE to park their RV in the middle of nowhere in woods or a field rather than finding a campsite, a WalMart or anywhere else that would be safer. Especially makes no sense since at least the first few stops on their haunted house tour are planned, so why wouldn't they also plan to stop the RV somewhere convenient? They also seem to think being stalked doesn't need a call to the police or, I don't know...STOPPING THEIR TRIP?! The female character even almost gets raped by some haunted house workers, and two seconds later is chomping on snacks in the RV, happily going onto the "extreme haunt" without a care. This makes their screams and panicking with each "scary" encounter ultimately meaningless, because it doesn't ever seem to be enough for even one of them to suggest that keeping going might be dangerous. By the middle of the movie I found myself murmuring to myself "They are so stupid they deserve to get killed." Ultimately even the end of the movie was kind of 'eh' as there was absolutely no gore or anything gross to make the hour and twenty minutes you already watched really worth it. If you are really bored on a rainy Sunday and want to yell at idiot twenty somethings this movie is for you, otherwise skip it.

Clare Quilty The trouble with nearly all movies in the "Found Footage" genre is I have trouble getting scared at a movie when I'm so busy trying to see what's going on and I can't stop wondering "Okay, now who has the camera going now?" Then there comes a point where invariably I think "So why aren't they helping their friend(s) stay alive instead of filming?" or "Oh, the killers have the camera, now. Then how are they able to film screaming people in coffins after they've been buried alive? ""Houses Built in October" has its moments, but you have to wait a long time for them to happen. Meanwhile we have to endure six young yuppies whose trite conversations are endless. Guess this was to convey how they were just ordinary folks, shucks, just like us. I don't hang out with dull people, myself, so I suppose the director and writer thought some of us needed the exposure. They were wrong there, too.Just like "Blair Witch Project" this one gets creepy in the last 20 minutes. Then what happens to these not-very-bright people is so ugly you sort of feel sorry that they're being killed because it seems to be happening just because they're boring. Or stupid. Anyway, some of the haunted houses are interesting, but the film makers couldn't even make the gratuitous titty bar scene fun. It's just there.