Review of The Gallows (2015) by Bryan D — 13 Sep 2015

I've been desperate to see this film ever since I watched the trailer but I wish I hadn't bothered! The trailer is so much better than the final film.

I'm one of the few people who is actually quite fond of the found footage horror genre, I feel that it adds realism and that adds to the movie's scare factor for me. unfortunately I found the usual found footage creepy atmosphere to be missing from this film.

I wasn't keen on any of the characters, therefore, I really didn't care what happened to them.

I found the film to be quite boring and it wasted so many chances for potential scares, also the best scares (apart from the end) were all in the trailer, so there weren't many surprises to be had.

I did like the creepy ending because I did get creeped out a bit, but the reason for the film ending up there was absolutely ridiculous and a very, very annoying plot hole! It would have been kind of clever if it had made more sense, I also predicted a lot of things that happened.

It's so annoying because this could have been really good, the antagonist had a lot of creepy potential but it was wasted, as was the creepy school setting.

I jumped a couple of times but it wasn't a hand squeezing or hide your eyes movie and for me that's the whole point.