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A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

PARANORMAL ASYLUM is a straight-to-video found footage horror flick made on a tiny budget. It doesn't have much sense and plays out just like every other example of the genre that you can think of. A couple of aspiring student filmmakers investigate the legend of a local 'Typhoid Mary' and soon find themselves pursued by her spirit in numerous cheesy scenes. This has a glossy look and feel to it which doesn't really match with the stilted performances and dreadful CGI effects. It's not the kind of film that you can get excited about.

First sign this movie is going to be terrible... two guys go out to an old ruined home in the woods, one guy sees an old lady, the first guy says, why are you freaking out about old ladies? Second guy doesn't point out the fact that she doesn't exist? lol... The writing is just that bad... and that's the very first scene, so I have my trusty popcorn and my kitty cat, but it looks like this one is going to be really bad. I love horror films, paranormal films that take place in an asylum so I gave it a shot, I don't mind independent movies, amateur actors, if the story is really good. I was interested in the story being told here, but the problems are many.The script is not very well written, the scenes are poorly utilized, such as when a guy goes to see archives, he doesn't seem to find anything and the whole scene comes off as worthless, adding no depth or tension or reason to the film.Something begins to happen but then just cuts and it's over and no one's that impressed or surprised, which makes no sense. Poorly written characters throughout.No one has any chemistry, the friendship, the girlfriend? No one has any believable connection or emotion to the relationships they're supposed to be portraying... Laura Gilreath and Aaron Mathias do an alright job with the maddeningly bad script and direction. I love when the half brother is giving Andy sh*t about borrowing his boat, and then when we finally see the boat it's a pretty cheap boat with cheap plastic back yard chairs tied together. There's some decent story twists that I enjoyed, such as Mary finding him and getting taken back to the hospital and Aaron pursuing, showing you the movie really could have been better if they had just kept the story more human and not tried to be so "smart" with the dialog that really hurt the film. 1/10

Paranormal investigations have long become a popular and well-respected horror sub-genre, attracting big budget Hollywood, micro budget and even documentary filmmakers alike, and the results ranging from the dead serious to the trashy to the utter spoof - and only the fewest filmmakers seem to get it right. Enter PARANORMAL ASYLUM: THE REVENGE OF TYPHOID MARY: Neither is it a big and pointless special effects fest à la big budget Hollywood, nor yet another crappy "found footage" exercise (even if the movie's story might suggest just that), but telling a proper, engaging story with plenty of interesting and unexpected plot twists, carried by fleshed-out characters and atmospheric images - and you simply can't ignore the perfectly creepy locations, either ...

Paranormal Asylum: The Revenge of Typhoid Mary tells the story of Typhoid Mary who in the early 20th century was kept in confinement at a mental institution in New York when it was thought that she was responsible for spreading the fever. Decades later two friends and one of the friend's girlfriends decide to investigate and film her story, however they discover that Mary's ghost is out for revenge. My issues with this movie include: Poorly written script and awful acting from the main cast. At some points it was slow moving It was a cheap knock off of Grave Encounters including the ending This is not a movie worth watching and I give it a 1/5