Death of a Ghost Hunter

One of the creepiest haunting-based movies I've ever seen
Creepy as hell. Those are the "three little words" that every horror film aspires to achieve. Very few succeed - especially in this horror fanatic's opinion - but Death of a Ghost Hunter earns this proclamation from my lips (and fingers). It isn't a perfect film by any means, and some of my fellow horror enthusiasts have criticized it rather heavily, but this is the creepiest film I've seen since [Rec]. Not surprisingly, Death of a Ghost Hunter is a low-budget labor of love - I shudder to think just how badly Hollywood would have ruined it. I actually see some of the movie's weaknesses, as pointed out by others, as strengths. For instance, critics love to point out that the film was shot in a mere nine days, as if the secret of cinematic success is to spend a hundred million dollars over the course of nine months while pampering "stars" who might deign to come out of their trailers once or twice a day to...

PRETTY CREEPY,WORTH TO SEE!!
Not-bad low budget film about a ghost hunter & others investigating a supposedly haunted house. The filmmakers do an admirable job of maintaining a creepy atmosphere throughout even without a lot of money at their disposal. The spfx are decent as is the film score by actor Mike Marsh. There are some negatives, though: the acting is a bit dodgy; one of the characters is so obviously the antagonist that they might as well have showed up wearing a black hat & sporting a twirly black moustache; and the twist ending can be spotted a mile away. All-in-all, this a decent little horror film. C+

GHOSTS CAUSE AUNT FLO TO VISIT EARLY
A team of four are investigating a haunted house. Carter (Patti Tindall) is a skeptical ghost hunter who leads the group. Her tools are a digital thermometer, EMF detector (great at detecting nuclear blasts), sound recorder, and irritating first person narration filled with creative 101 phrases such as "ominous foreboding" and "retain the darkness." Colin (Mike Marsh- writer, producer, and composer of said film) is the bald camera man who gives himself a "7" out of "10" or at least those are the words he wrote for reporter Yvette (Davina Joy, who remarkably still had a career after this film). The creepy Mary Young tags along as a representative of the church.

The official story of the house is that someone killed the family, then mom coming home finding them dead, commits suicide in grief as per her note. We know that mom is the killer from the opening grainy film...but the "why" provides the twist.

For those who like the "Paranormal Activity" series or someone...

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