Boo (2005)

Nice effects though.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This movie had one star on Amazon but it sounded good so we watched it. It deserves 10 stars. It was different than the usual teenage gore fest. The acting was good and the main villain was terrifying. It also had a back story which was shown and had a point to it. All in all, I recommend this movie for a different perspective on scream fest. It had a point, people. I really want there to be a sequel but the bad guy was so good at being bad that I'm scared there's a sequel.

Bunch of pretty teens convene at an old abandoned mental hospital for Halloween. Things go awry.Written and directed by Anthony C. Ferrante, Boo is either a loving homage to all things involving "haunted house" cinema? Or one of the laziest horror movies made in 2005?Everything but the kitchen sink is thrown at the audience for this one, with the sound mix turned up to the max for, erm, max impact. The fear of this, the fear of that, what's real? What's not? And let there be blood! There will be blood!Acting is ordinary, as is the writing, but scene setting and location filming is not half bad. In a nutshell, it's a horror film that you show to your pre-teen family members to prep them for far better horror pleasures in their up coming adult life. 4/10

Boo is set on Halloween as macho man Kevin (Jilon Ghai) & his mate Freddy (Josh Holt) dare two girls Jessie (Trish Coren) & Marie (Nicole Rayburn) to spend the night in an old supposedly haunted mental hospital called the Linda Vista, although not keen at first the two girls eventually agree. What Jessie & Marie don't know is that a third guy named Emmett (Happy Mahaney) has rigged the place with spooky cheap scares but soon finds outs that hospital is haunted anyway. As the four teens turn up & enter the hospital things go from bad to worse as an evil ghost tries to possess them in order to leave the confines the hospital & with all the doors & windows boarded up they are all trapped inside...Written & directed by Anthony C. Ferrante this haunted house ghost film was just about watchable but nothing special, to be honest I will have probably totally forgotten about it by the end of the week. The set-up is pretty typical stuff, a group of teens decide to spend the night in some creepy abandoned place which has various ghost stories surrounding it & find to their cost that the stories were real. At 90 odd minutes it has a reasonable pace although it does drag at times with seemingly endless shots of teens wandering around dark corridors & the story itself just isn't that gripping or satisfying. The narrative is poor with too many random occurrences or things which just aren't explained, how does the ghost of Jacob possess someone? I mean if the teens are there why doesn't he just possess them as soon as his previous body is killed? What's with the random clown with no feet that levitates for a few seconds, changes the expression on it's face mask & then just collapse are bleeding maggots & worms? What were all the flashbacks by Jessie all about? Why was she having vivid flashbacks to moments she couldn't have known anything about? How was her mother involved? Where did those keys she found come from? Why not tell her friends about them? Why does Jacob not want to live in a human body anymore at the end? It's never made clear. Also what's with the black cop who appeared in an in film film? Does that have relevance at all? Why did possessed people explode when shot? To be fair to Boo it's not the worst teen horror film out there but it's far from the best, one or two lines of dialogue are amusing with 'if you shoot me in the face I'll kick your ass' probably the highlight. A bit of a mess really, for every positive Boo has there's a negative.The feel & atmosphere of Boo is alright, the sets are quite moody but just covering everything in shadow does tend to get boring & the lack of any real visuals other than black gets annoying. There's a bit of gore & pleasingly the CGI computer effects are kept to a minimum with the majority of the gore achieved with practical on-set effect, there's a skinned dog whose head is blown off, a few exploding people, some decent skin melting effects, a melted hand & decent amounts of blood splatter. There's some blatant horror film rip-offs going on here with an opening sequence that is a mix between Halloween (1978) & Scream (1996) while the film after feels like a cross between House on Haunted Hill (1999) & The Grudge (2004).Apparently shot at the end of 2003 this wasn't released anywhere until mid 2006 which is no great surprise. Actress Dee Wallace has a small cameo while the rest of the cast are pretty poor.Boo is not I film that I thought was particularly good, it has a few moments I suppose but the messy script & poor narrative along with an all too familiar feel means I can't even describe Boo as mediocre, it's slightly below average but having said that it's not the worst film out there it's just that it's nowhere near the best either.

This is one of those movies that was broken down by the reviewers all around the world. Is it all that bad? Well, it's never scary it's what I call one for the kids. The movie goes on and on but still the scary part never came in, the ghost story wasn't believable at all and it is that part that makes this movie not that good after all. That a ghost possesses some one that we can take but that it appears and disappears just like that was a bit too far to be taken by the viewers. There is blood in it but it doesn't flow how it should be. When the ghosts are shot down they explode, still there it isn't scary. The best part are the first minutes of the movie with the pumpkinhead. There are better movies out there possessed by ghosts. A shame, it could have been done much better. And due the lack of nudity I really recommend it to watch it as a starter for the real stuff.