Evidence of a Haunting (2010)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Very disappointing...

Lack of good storyline.

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

This film consists of 3 episodes. Rayne Morgan (Jessica D. Fulling) leads a group of supernatural researchers which include a priest (Scott Evans) a Wiccan (Renee Wiggins) and a goth (Korin Medina) equipped with special electronics, cameras, and swagger music.The first episode consists of a young potty mouthed girl who needs a 3 minute exorcism. It was so campy it was funny. Their assistance is needed in a second episode when a poltergeist haunts a home by cleaning things up and stacking items neatly. Seriously? Send that one to my place, please. It uses the dreaded Ouija board as a portal. Yes, it starts out with burning black candles and the next thing you know you're drinking goat's blood with Satan in your living room talking philosophy watching "South Park" reruns.The final episode has a killer spirit named Benjamin who is located in electrical tunnels under a university.The acting was bad. The filming is more professional than the found footage type of films. It uses clear multiple camera angles for which there is no camera, so in essence this is a hybrid movie and not an actual found footage film which don't fool anyone...I hope. Not worth watching unless you want a laugh.Parental Guidance: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Some cleavage shots.

EVIDENCE OF A HAUNTING is part of a seemingly endless barrage of cinema-verite "horror" films a la "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity." But that's where the similarity ends. The acting here is monochromatic, the irksome techno score is out of place, and the screenplay is rife with clichés that dozens of other films handled much better.EVIDENCE chronicles the awkwardly-named Supernatural Paranormal Research Society, six young people who star in a reality show that chronicles their search for the occult. Of course, unlike the real world's ghost-hunter shows, these folks actually encounter (and ultimately vanquish) evil spirits. At least, that's what we're supposed to think; the spirits are conveniently invisible.The film is divided into three segments. The first is a direct rip- off of "The Exorcist," involving the possession of an 11-year-old girl by a ghost with anger issues. The exorcism takes all of two minutes and is accomplished by waving a cross at the spirit and shouting it down. First, the kid is possessed, and one second later, she's not.Up next, the team looks into a series of unexplained events in an Oklahoma house. It turns out, the owner's two young daughters got hold of a Ouija board and accidentally summoned the spirit of a Cherokee medicine man who really wants to stay in our world. The team gets rid of the ghost by chopping up the Ouija board and burning it, despite the ghost's inexplicably mild protests. As in the first segment, the spirit is there one moment and gone the next.The third segment is by far the most effective. This time, the team investigates a suspected haunting in a network of underground tunnels beneath a Dallas college campus. The unlit, claustrophobic atmosphere greatly assists what has been, up to now, a turgid and decidedly unfrightening attempt at a horror film.Sandwiched between the second and third segments is a tortuous barroom scene in which the team members unwind over drinks and engage in trite conversations that reveal the callowness of the script (and the non-existent acting skills of the cast). As if ripping off "The Exorcist" and "Paranormal Activity" weren't enough, now they're channeling "The Breakfast Club."The film makes repeated references to "Dead Hour," when ghosts come alive in our world. Dead Hour lasts from 3:00-4:00 a.m. But in which time zone? And does Dead Hour take Daylight Savings Time into account? Hell, I've put more thought into this review than they put into their film!

It is incredibly bad. So much that it is a joke that it was actually made. I have to ask, if these people in the film had to pay to be in it,because I can't imagine anyone paying for such horrible acting!You go from shakycam to stationary and back again. The camera shots/angles make no sense at all.Excessive botox or just expressionless flat acting. One trying so hard to copy the Jennifer aniston Voice-fry throughout from the women. It is quite painful to watch, you can just picture each of these people reading lines over and over ,while trying to be natural.There are pregnant pauses with each sentence. You can honestly see better acting in Midwest highschool plays. There is one person however that came across his three minute dialogue very nicely....the older guy with the southern accent in that steam tunnel/room. He wasn't even an actor and he was light years better than this group,seriously.I am not kidding you when I say, throughout this movie you truly know what each line will be, before it is read aloud.What's worse than this straight to DVD mess? Or the fact that someone somewhere gave money for its creation. The idea that the writers, directors, actors will be at the local coffee shop, with an attitude that they had something to do with a full length film.

I wish IMDd would add a 'minus' rating so we can warn people against trash like this nonsense. It feels like the makers thought 'hey let's make a Found Footage' horror using every clichéd line/ horror plot we can find, from the incredibly unoriginal 'abuse dished out by the possessed one minute/not possessed the next minute little girl to the priest, through to the 'exorcism dialogue' from the priest, and that is all in the first few minutes and it all goes downhill from there which is some achievement when, after the first five minutes, you wonder how worse it can get, well it somehow manages to do so. The premise is staggeringly drab showing how utterly clueless the producers/Director and writers must be. A young family have just moved into a new house where they have been experiencing 'disturbing phenomena' and the psychic claims there is 'something very powerful' in the house which is a Native American spirit..., ....blah, blah, blah.....Utterly pointless drivel. I hope all involved with this abomination get lifetime bans from the MPAA from ever being allowed anywhere near a Word Processor, a film set or film equipment again. They should all be tracked down and beaten with heavy sticks by every fan of horror or Found Footage film.The less said about the pointless dreadful techno soundtrack which just doesn't work in the genre, the better.