Saturday, February 27, 2021

Ghosthunter (2016)

 

After Henry’s wife and daughter are murdered, he decides to go back to the scene of the crime. He’s concerned the ghosts of his family will be stuck there forever and wants to release them so they can be at peace.

Prior to the murders, Henry and his paranormal team set up equipment at the murder site, which is an abandoned mansion that a serial killer used as a kill site. They wanted to do experiments in contacting the dead.  They assume the equipment is still there since the police wouldn’t have known what is was.  Apparently the police aren’t very good at their jobs since the equipment includes computers. They certainly should have grabbed those to make sure there was no evidence of serial killer-y web searches or manifestos. 

The only skeptic in the group is someone’s girlfriend who is along for the ride.  When they show her a pair of goggles that look like something out of a steampunk convention, they tell her it’s an invention to see ghosts. She asks if she can use them. No one is concerned that she may damage their only pair of ghost glasses as she wanders off on her own without any instructions. Yes that’s right. They only have one pair of these fabulous ghost seeing spectacles.

When they start their experiments looking for apparitions, she continues using the glasses. Yes by all means, please allow the person who has no idea how to use them and doesn’t believe in ghosts to have the one means of actually seeing what you’re trying to contact.  Never give the amateur your ghost glasses!

The group captures some ectoplasm and the interactions with the ghosts become increasingly hostile.  For a bunch of ghost hunters, they don’t seem very well versed in their craft. They hear the voice of a friend up ahead when they just left him behind but don’t think it suspicious.  Pretty much every ghost hunting movie can be summed up by saying people go looking for ghosts and something goes horribly wrong.

This is an Asylum film so you know what you’re getting. It’s a step up from a lot of their stuff but its still not great. 


Ridiculous dialogue

Wait! Did anyone ever stop to think this could be dangerous?



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