Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Night Explorers: The Asylum (2023)

Ozi and Jim partner with another paranormal team to explore a reportedly haunted asylum scheduled to be destroyed. They’ve paid $10,000 to get access to the entire building and will be the last people to explore it.  

Ozi thinks it’s a good investment and expects to recoup their costs and make income when they post it to their channel. It’s the age of scripted reality shows and viewers want entertainment. They’ve been faking their videos and he wants to take their channel to the next level and get real footage.

The two teams meet the night before their investigation and party into the night. They get up late and arrive at the asylum after the sun goes down. You’d think after spending so much money, they’d want to get there early to set up, look around and plan what they were doing, but nope.

As they start filming, they mention there’s only one door to get in and they’ll be inside all night. Then they shut the cameras off and talk about how they don’t really have to stay there. They can explore, gets shots of themselves inside and then leave. This makes no sense based on the money they spent and wanting to do real investigations rather than faking things.

As they split up and explore, the small groups hear noises and it sounds like something is heading towards them. Although their whole purpose is to discover evidence of the supernatural, they run away. They’re doing everything they can to avoid confirming if the asylum is really haunted. 

Once they realize someone or something is attacking them, you think they’d try to avoid detection. However there is a lot of screaming which is helping the menace pinpoint them. Emma is a total liability and these idiots keep yelling to each other, which is attracting the attention of what they are trying to avoid.   

Another movie with unlikeable characters who make bad decisions. And why would they pay $10,000 to get full access to a location and then decide to half ass it, just shoot some footage and go home?  




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