Farhope Tower (2015)
Five paranormal investigators venture into the infamous Farhope Tower, known for its dark history of unexplained suicides, with dreams of landing a Reality TV deal. But they get more than they bargained for when they enter the strangely ever-changing layout, lair of the most powerful spirits they’ve ever faced. For once inside the derelict structure an omnipresent evil begins manipulating the team, and the higher they climb the more everything spirals out of control. For heaven’s sake, don’t go up! From the filmmakers behind 88 and DEAD BEFORE DAWN 3D comes a classy chiller to leave you super-creeped out.
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One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Five people investigate the paranormal for their internet channel. They get an opportunity at a real TV network. They decide to film something bigger to show to the network. There is the haunted Farhope Tower which has been abandoned since the late 80s due to some unexplained deaths. As they investigate, they are influenced by unknown forces.This is a smaller Canadian horror. The good news is that this is not found footage. The bad news is that it's not that good. There is nothing scary. The atmosphere doesn't rise to be creepy. The style is blah. The actors are perfectly fine and that's the only good from this. There is nothing exceptional going on here.
The film opens in 1977 with a 1960's stereo. A man kills his wife for being pregnant by another man, then kills himself. In a newspaper clip we discover that the child survived. Since then people have mysterious killed themselves in this building, all above the tenth floor. Five paranormal investigators wanting to make a dynamite pilot film go to this place where others dare not go.Jake (John White) and Andre (Evan Williams) who lead the group grew up in this area and used to make frequent visits here as kids until...Andre does not want to go back, but is out voted.The production is NOT found footage although elements creep in. The sound track was fairly rhythmic providing a decent excitement build. Most of the filming looked professional as director/actress April Mullen spends time on both sides of the camera. I did notice a sound goof toward the end when a person was being kicked in the gut, the sound happened before the leg/foot landed. Filmed in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. What I didn't grasp were the outside nighttime scenes as if a vehicle was approaching the tower. What was that about? Guide: No sex or nudity. No F-words that I recall. Just some old fashion woman beating. Soft 3 stars Please note a splint and a stretcher is the proper way to treat a broken leg in the field. Don't let a friend set it and then "see if you can walk."