Mike hosts a tv show and is filming an episode at an abandoned asylum. The producer and crew are outside, while Mike breaks a lock on a door to get in. He’s exploring with a cameraman, sound guy and Andy, a local who is knowledgeable on the history of the asylum. While in the basement, they hear a noise, the cameraman is knocked out and dragged off.
Meanwhile outside the asylum, Officer Hansen and his partner arrive and tell the producer to get lost because it’s private property. They’re surprised to find out the Sheriff gave them permission to shoot. Hansen says the building and grounds are dangerous and warns him it’s in his best interest to leave.
The next day Mike’s fiancé Crystal is panicked because he hasn’t called. She calls the production team, who seems familiar with her calling when she hasn’t heard from Mike. Crystal seems very high maintenance.
Not satisfied with the answer they provided, Crystal shows up in town and accosts the Sheriff while he’s at a park watching his son perform in a chorus. It’s not clear how Crystal found him or why she’d think this was appropriate. When the Sheriff tells her to leash her dog, she ignores him and says the dog is “pretty harmless.”
The Sheriff says if Mike is missing, she can go to the police station to file a report. She refuses and demands he bring her to the asylum now. When he says no, she says it will only be an hour. When he refuses to make her the center of his world, she sarcastically says he’s supposed to protect and serve. She’s getting more unlikable by the minute.
At this point, Crystal flounces off to the asylum on her own, where she repeatedly cried, “Mike! Mike” sounding like a cawing bird. After finding no access to the building, she wanders across the lawn and promptly falls through the ground into the basement.
After she wakes up, she bumps into some freaks and runs off where she meets up with the Sheriff, Andy and a few more people. They help her look for Mike, although they did not see anyone chasing her. The rest of the movie is people being chased, murdered, and wouldn’t you know it the old doctor did unethical experiments in the basement and surprise! the survivors are still in there.
There are two problems with this movie and the biggest is Crystal. She’s not strong or smart and seems to think the world revolves around her. When she is captured, she’s screaming, crying, panting, gasping and annoying as hell. Also the scene where her cell is unlocked is so confusing. The little kid backs away from the cell, Crystal cries and then a hand unlocks it. Next shot she’s running down a hallway. Whose hand was it?
The second issue is in the middle of these horrific moments, people provide unnecessary exposition about their pasts when they should be more concerned about their current personal safety. At one point, the officer tells Crystal the Sheriff was a good man who believed in him. Later Crystal says she pushed Mike into being the host even though he didn’t want to do it. Then Mike and Crystal run away but then stop to have an emotional reunion instead of continuing to try to get the hell out of there.
I’m also confused as to what happened to the crew? There were a ton of people at the asylum when Mike went inside. Did they leave even though Mike, the cameraman and sound guy never came out again? If they didn’t leave, then what happened to their campers, vehicles and equipmennt?
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| The super clean abandoned asylum with no spider webs |
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| The car would be a good reason to contact the police |
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| Crystal about to find out why you shouldn’t wander around abandoned buildings by yourself |
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