The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Fresh and Exciting

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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

OK all you non believers.Sure,the movie started out very slow, but little, by little it did leave you in suspense. The situation on where their interviewing the local towns people, the young blond lady (the one who had the most info.on the infamous madame).Everything this young lady said is true & is documented.Google it.The poor slaves were actually tortured worse than what she mentioned, & what she said was definitely disturbing enough.It has even been documented that her previous residence is still haunted & has gone through many owners, & has been many owners different type of business's, school, apartments, etc. In each of these business owners were reports of various paranormal type activity,or sightings, especially African American Ghosts.So out of respect to those who lost their lives to these two diabolical monsters,please do some research before judging. It was part true & the other half was entertainment! 😊👻💀

As a horror film The St. Francisville Experiment is effective. There are well executed scares, eerie environments, surprisingly strong camera work for a found footage venture, and a paranoia inducing aura that will continue even after the film has finished. But this effectiveness is largely watered down by a handful of bad decisions. There's poor continuity of mood from scene to scene, there seem to be continuity errors in lighting and room layout, all the characters have one or two frustratingly annoying ticks, and the pace is very muddled. 35% of this film is honestly scary claustrophobic moments in a darkened haunted house, and the other 65% is off-putting, meandering dialogue that neither adds to the characters nor to the horrors. For the horror fanatic, that 35% is effective enough to warrant a viewing, for the less than fanatic, it's just not worth it.

Okay so actually I probably know more about this movie then all of you do reason for that is is that Tim Thopmson(Timothy Baldini) is my brother. He became good friends with the team leader i cant recall his name and that all of the events in the movie were fake, except for one. The part where they go up to the top of the attic and see the chair get flipped over is actually real. Reason this is, is that the mechanics used to pull back that chair at that speed would have made the hydraulics screaming. When i say hydraulics im reffering to thos little mechanical boxes they carry around. Because in real life the Team leader i think his name is troy is an engineer, and works with those sort of things... Hence his attitude when my brothers suggests he stay up in the attic and he freaks out because he knows its really real.

I went into this with absolutely no expectations and I was pleasantly surprised. ST FRANCISVILLE drew me in in spite of some bad acting and annoying characters. I was just shy of hitting the STOP button several times, but I decided to stick with it and I'm glad I did. Sure, it's a rip off (but what movie isn't these days?). At least they boldly acknowledge this when one of the characters asks, "Did you see BLAIR WITCH?" Yes, we did. And so did you, apparently.If you're a fan of any of the myriad of paranormal shows like GHOST HUNTERS or SCARIEST PLACES ON EARTH, this movie might give you a thrill and a chill. I jumped a few times and found myself muttering, "Please don't open that door..." several times out loud.A lot of folks seem to hate this flick, but I say give it a go!