Review of Grave Encounters (2011) by Anomaly . — 20 Nov 2012

Debut feature for duo Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, who've dubbed themselves the Vicious Brothers (not to be confused with fellow horror helmers the Butcher Brothers), treads by-now-familiar scary-mockumentary terrain. The picture's creepiness factor is sufficient to rate this a notch above genre average. Despite its meagre budget, Grave Encounters boasts surprisingly solid acting, vertigo-baiting hand-held camera antics and enough [REC]- style shock-horror to keep your pulse throbbing throughout. Offers some decent scares once you get past the somewhat labored set-up. Still, pacing is taut, the setting eerie, and eventual scares are fairly effective if never particularly original. If a somewhat formulaic air hangs over whole enterprise, it's nonetheless creepier and less cookie-cutter than your average mainstream slasher. So if you'd like to see what sort of footage would show up if those cable-friendly "ghost hunters" actually ran smack-dab into precisely the sort of horrors they were tracking, Grave Encounters will suit a nice, dark weekend screening very well.

VERDICT: "In The Zone" - [Mixed Reaction] These kinds of movies are usually movies that had some good things, but some bad things kept it from being amazing. This rating says buy an ex-rental or a cheap price of the DVD to own. If you consider cinema, ask for people's opinion on the film. (Films that are rated 2.5 or 3 stars).