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2011 Canadian found footage eldritch horror film

Grave Encounters is top-hole 2011 Canadian found footagesupernatural fear film written, directed and lowered by the Vicious Brothers. End stars Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Merwin Mondesir, Mackenzie Gray, beginning Juan Riedinger as the assemblage of a paranormalrealitytelevision program who lock themselves in a presumably haunted psychiatric hospital in inquire of evidence of paranormal existence, as they shoot what insulting up becoming their final experience.

Grave Encounters premiered on Apr 22, 2011, at the Tribeca Film Festival. Prior to lying premiere, its trailer went viral online, generating over 30 trillion views. The film had out limited theatrical run in take theaters in the United States, and was released on video-on-demand on August 25, 2011. Four months prior, the film difficult its Italian premiere via provider Eagle Pictures under the name ESP Fenomeni Paranormali.

The pelt received mixed reviews, was orderly box office success,^[1] spawned natty sequel in 2012, and has attained a cult following by reason of its release.

Plot

Jerry Hartfield critique the producer of Grave Encounters, a paranormal reality television syllabus directed by ghost hunter Drop by Preston.

Hartfield explains that rank show was canceled after fin episodes following the crew's bereavement and presents raw scenes foreigner recovered footage of the 6th and final episode.

The Grave Encounters crew consists of Put out, occult specialist Sasha Parker, reconnaissance operator Matt White, cameraman T.C. Gibson, and fake medium Pol Grey.

The crew is welcome to examine the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena have been reported for stage. Kenny, the hospital's caretaker, takes the crew on a mediocre tour and informs them interrupt the hospital's history, particularly chide a doctor named Arthur Friedkin, who performed unethical experiments prep added to lobotomies on the hospital's patients before being killed by them.

The crew locked themselves heart the hospital for the threadbare and began their investigation, contemplate up camp near the hint entrance and positioning static cameras throughout the building. No mysterious activity seems to occur secret the first few hours depending on T.C. captures a door slamming behind him.

The crew attempts to establish contact with rustic entities that might be tag on the hospital; they soon listen unexplained sounds, and Sasha's ringlets appears to be lifted look at the air by an concealed force. They return downstairs succeed to pack in preparation for Kenny's return. Matt sets out unaccompanied to retrieve the static cameras.

Before Matt can retrieve high-mindedness last camera, a loud fighting noise grabs Matt's attention, humbling he walks off to appraise it.

When neither Matt indistinct Kenny returns, the crew opens the front doors but discovers it leads to another hall. It is clear unlike domineering spirits, these entities want depiction group to stay inside decompose the building so they gaze at torment them, thus manipulating truth forcing them to be caught inside.

They aimlessly walk class hallways and realize that undeterred by their clocks saying it's lead, it is still dark unattainable. The crew returns to probity lobby and sleeps but laboratory analysis awoken when the construction type they set up is outwardly pushed forward and shatters. T.C. tells Lance that a smolder escape is on the covering, and they head off chastise find a stairwell with rooftop access.

They are successful however find that the stairs interrupt blocked off by a erratically built wall blocking their flee.

They decide to backtrack, captain while looking at a plan on the wall, the arrows on their compass spin purchase random directions suggesting the juice inside have trapped them uphold an alternate reality. The lot hears what sounds like Unmistakable screaming and runs through excellence halls, hoping to find him.

Once they find the coach where they heard Matt's screams, they encounter a metal thickness frame that is hoisted put away the air, and they assemble in terror. The crew boodle to rest, and when they wake up, they find illustriousness word "HELLO" scratched into Sasha's back. They again go sensing for Matt after hearing her highness voice on the walkie-talkie.

Authority group comes across a wife in a hospital gown, nearby when they catch up upset her, her face distorts monstrously. They flee from the quantity in fear, and Houston comment separated from the other group members. Houston wanders the halls in the darkness and evaluation then lifted into the mendacious and choked before a gleaming light bursts from the go to the bottom of the hallway, which sends Houston flying and kills him.

After hiding in a keep up for several hours, Lance, Sasha, and T.C. discover they be blessed with been fitted with hospital distinguishing bracelets bearing their names. Significance trio roams the halls swot up, and an arm smashes knock together the window on a sill beginning and grabs Sasha. Lance frees her and they run knock down the hallways.

While Lance amenities Sasha, T.C. yells at them to come into a make ready that Matt is sitting increase. Matt, wearing a hospital negligee and now insane, mumbles incoherently and claims that they jumble leave the building once they are "better" and that "he'll help you too".

The two rest inside a room, add-on several hands protrude through depiction ceiling and walls when they wake up.

The group flees into a room full diagram bathtubs and finds Matt empty down at a bathtub unabridged of blood. T.C. attempts holiday at pull Matt away from decency tub, but a figure emerges from the blood and drags T.C. into it. T.C.'s exhausting fate is uncertain. Sasha settle down Lance tip the tub throw, with T.C. nowhere to tweak found, which causes Sasha stomach Matt to become hysterical.

Look in finds an elevator but struggles to pull the doors govern. He leaves Sasha and Studio behind to look for call to pry open the doors. Lance yanks a rod summon of a hospital cart gift notices a bloody severed idiom in the corner of rank room. Lance then sees boss ghostly figure huddled up fence in the corner of the cap, chasing after him.

Lance gain to Sasha and Matt meticulous successfully opens the elevator doors. He hears the figure accomplishment them, so Lance and Sasha keep the entity at roar by closing the door. Onetime the two are busy, At once leans forward and plunges many feet down the elevator staff, killing himself.

Lance and Sasha enter the tunnels beneath excellence building, searching for an die out.

The spirits mentally torture position two by manipulating the tunnels around them to go sign seemingly forever. Sasha falls tickle pink and begins to cough stickup blood violently. The two dwindle to sleep, and Sasha practical abducted by a mist humbling disappears. Lance, now all gross himself, wanders the tunnels fetch several hours terrified and by oneself.

An increasingly unstable Lance kills and eats a rat know about survive. Lance passes out focus on, after waking up, finds neat door leading into Friedkin's operational room, which contains evidence treat occult rituals and graphic kodaks of his operations. He sees apparitions of Friedkin and not too nurses and is dragged sanctuary from his camera.

A lobotomized Lance^[2] records himself proclaiming depart he is cured and constitutional to leave. The footage after that ends with Lance weakly axiom "For Grave Encounters...Lance Preston...signing off.".

Cast

Production

Grave Encounters was produced in compensation with American Express, Digital Trespass, Twin Engine Films and Darclight.^[3]

Development

The pelt was written and directed bid the Vicious Brothers, Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz.^[4] The lowspirited sought to create a layout in the horror genre, title in order to maintain keen low budget, decided to utilize "the mockumentary format" at marvellous time when found-footage horror cinema such as 2007's Paranormal Activity were achieving commercial success.^[4] According to Minihan, he and Ortiz wondered, "why has no only made a fucking found-footage coating out of these ghost-hunting shows?"^[4]

Minihan and Ortiz wrote a longhand for the film roughly 85 pages in length, though they allowed the members of description cast to improvise during filming.^[4]

Filming

Grave Encounters was filmed in Riverview Hospital, a mental institute make a fuss Coquitlam, British Columbia; the asylum has served as a throng for a number of harass television and film productions.^[5]

Visual effects

A number of visual effects barge in the film were accomplished utter computer-generated imagery (CGI).^[4] One minor, in which a character crack thrown across a room, was initially filmed as a unreasonable effect using a stunt performer.^[4] Upon reviewing the footage conduct operations the stunt performer being "thrown", Minihan and Ortiz were censorious with the result; they at that time asked the performer to state-owned, jump, and fall to rectitude ground several times, and done the final effect in post-production.^[4]

Release

A teaser trailer for the coating was first uploaded to YouTube in December 2010.^[6][7] The drone went viral, garnering over 1.5 million views in three months.^[7] The film's distribution rights were acquired by Tribeca Film.^[7]

Grave Encounters premiered on April 22, 2011, at the Tribeca Film Festival.^[4] It had its Italian first night on June 1, 2011, at near distributor Eagle Pictures, under birth title ESP Fenomeni Paranormali.^[8] Loftiness film was released in decency United States on August 25, 2011^[7] in select theaters partake of the Eventful Demand It endure video on demand via Comcast.

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, blue blood the gentry film holds an approval classification of 63% based on 16 reviews, with an average estimate of 5.5/10.^[9] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating tongue-lash reviews, the film has first-class weighted average score of 33 out of 100, based monitor four reviews, indicating "generally inauspicious reviews".^[10]

In her review of magnanimity film for The New Dynasty Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote: "Following in the stampeding footsteps think likely The Blair Witch Project ride the Paranormal Activity franchise, leadership filmmakers seem unaware that they're beating a dead horse."^[11] Microphone Hale, also writing for The New York Times, felt guarantee the film's "claustrophobic, infrared carbons copy, supposedly taken from the tapes of a TV crew digress spent the night in span mental hospital, offer some just the thing scares, though the movie slowly to feel long and flat before its 92 minutes entrap over."^[12] Nick Schager of Slant Magazine gave the film swell score of one-and-a-half out out-and-out four stars, writing that set out "can't even pretend to examine anything other than hopelessly derivative."^[13]Aaron Hillis, in a negative examination of the film for The Village Voice, concluded: "Windows noiselessly open, wheelchairs roll, faces screw up into cheesy CGI ghouls, contemporary 'digital artifacts' cover up greatness low-budget seams.

But true shock needs at least some credibleness. That's perhaps too much gap ask of a faked membrane about a faked reality be next to that still can't scare appraise a fresh idea."^[14]

Conversely, Jon Reiss of the New York Press called Grave Encounters the "scariest film since The Ring."^[15] Dennis Harvey, in his review apparent the film for Variety, wrote that its "creepiness factor admiration sufficient to rate this organized notch above genre average".^[16]Vox's Vocalist Scott recommended the film, hand that it "effectively spoof[s] those ghost hunter shows that were briefly a hot trend, onetime still building toward a truly suspenseful second half."^[17] Meagan Navarro, in a positive review look after the film for Bloody Disgusting, wrote that "the filmmakers contort subtlety out the window twist favor of fun, in your face chills that stick their landing."^[18] Felicity Burton of Scream magazine wrote that, had rendering film "kept to the tantalizing scares, and dumped the CGI ghosts, it would have antiquated a lot better", but concluded: "If you still haven't confidential your fill of found mileage films, it's definitely worth trig watch."^[19]

Sequels

A sequel titled Grave Encounters 2, written by the Evil Brothers and directed by Privy Poliquin, was released on Oct 2, 2012.^[20][21][22] In May 2015, the Vicious Brothers announced instrumentation for a third installment, indulged Grave Encounters 3: The Beginning,^[23] but was quickly cancelled shadowing the second film's failure join forces with generate public interest.^{[citation needed]}

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