Death of a Ghost Hunter (2007)

Seth Masterson hires Carter Simms, a renowned ghost hunter, to do a three day investigation of his uncle's house to determine if it's haunted.  Seth's uncle, aunt, and two cousins were found murdered thirty years earlier, and no one has lived there since. A gardener and maid have been employed to keep the place neat, but now the maid won't go back due to a frightening experience she had while trying to clean at night.  Seth won't go in the place either due to the creepy vibe.

Carter is joined by cameraman Colin, journalist Yvette (whose acting is right out of community theater), and nut job Mary, a member of the youth group where the Masterson's used to go to church.  No one was expecting Mary so they are surprised to see her.

Carter proves to be not so good an investigator when she doesn't call Seth to ask why this unannounced house guest is there,  especially when Seth only left three keys.... and Mary makes four.  Well, that doesn't make me too confident in her paranormal skills if she can't even use any cranial processing to figure out Mary doesn't belong there.

Obviously things go horribly wrong - I mean, just look at the title. Mary causes problems every step of the way, but says she is just there to protect the Mastersons reputations. Yes, because when it comes to protecting the church, there's nothing like someone going psycho on a journalist to make sure you get good press.

The movie is passed off as a recreation of Carters journal entries. Many scenes remind me of listening to books on tape.  It's just someone reading journal entries to provide exposition, rather than scenes that actually go anywhere.  And the sound is pretty annoying. Sometimes it's super loud, but others it's so soft you can't hear the dialogue. If there's one thing that takes you out of a movie, it's when you have to have the remote in your hand to constantly adjust the volume. Good god! Stop doing that crap with the sound!