The janitor is weird, and the teens are rude, overly sarcastic, and condescending. He gives them a tour of the building and tells them stories of the ghosts that inhabit it, while warning them not to go into his office.
When he leaves, they pull out a ouija board and strange things start to occur, one of which is the janitor not being able to get into the room because the door locks from the other side. What sort of janitor doesn’t have keys? Also I’m pretty sure the kids let the door close when they go out to talk to him but yet they are able to get back into the room.
The ouija scene is ridiculous. The spirit says his name is Elias, and the teens craniums cease to function. They get inexplicable angry about the name. They ask the girl doing the internship if someone in her office is named Elias. When she says no, they ask if she’s sure. It’s so bizarre. Why would they ever think it’s someone from the office? Oujia boards are to contact the dead, not the living. And why not ask more questions to determine who it is, rather than getting angry and disdainful.
At one point, they want to leave and try one of the doors but it won’t open. Their plan is to go to the second floor and break one of the windows. Then they can jump and the snow will cushion their fall. Ah yeah, or maybe break a window on the first floor so you don’t have to jump. Or try the door you came in since you had a key for that one?
Nothing like the cover occurs in this movie. The credits say the teens were not told what was going to happen so their reactions are real. The problem with this is the teens endless screeching, which is hard to sit through. Also it’s too dark to see why they’re shrieking. The actors are not adept at improvising so you’ll hear the same lines over and over: oh my god; I want to go home; and what is this. Most of the dialogue is like being seated next to some teenagers in a restaurant and listening to them chatter inanely about nothing interesting. Basically it’s another story where someone looks for ghosts and when they appear to find them, there is no plan other than panic.
Ridiculous teenage dialogue:
Is that levitating up in the air?
Do you work here? [said to the janitor]
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| Maybe it would have worked if we could see what caused them to scream or they used actors who did more than shriek or repeat the same phrases over and over. |
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| You’re going to watch a lot of this type of shot. |
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| We can see clearly in the elevator, but nothing happens |
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| Closed caption for stomping up the stairs |
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| William showing he doesn’t truly grasp the meaning of the word levitate |
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