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The Worst Film Ever

An action-packed slog

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

I remeber when I first saw the trailer for this movie, and it scared the hell out of me. When it came out on iTunes (the most convenient place for me to watch it), I immediately rented it without reading the reviews. I loved it. I consider myself a horror movie buff. I'm so desensitized to horror movies that I fell asleep during The Exorcist. However it took me hours to fall asleep after The Gallows. The "villain" was depraved, yet relatable, the scares happened when you least expect them to, and the setting was perfect. The next day, I went to IMDB to review it, and was horrified to see the reviews. People have trashed this movie for no reason. Maybe they just don't come in contact with modern high school students, because the actors pulled off their roles marvelously.

THE GALLOWS is a low-fi found footage horror flick about a group of amateur dramatics students who end up trapped in a theatre one night, where they're haunted by the events of the past in which a student was accidentally hanged during a school play. It's one of those films which typically consists of a lot of screaming and a lot of running around through dark corridors. There's little in the way of special effects and the actors have to put a lot of work in to convince you of their fear, but they're generally not bad. On the downside, this is an entirely predictable outing and nothing that takes place hasn't been done better before. However, I still enjoyed it to a degree, as it's one of those amiable time-wasters that gets the job done.

It is my personal opinion that I did not find the film any good. There's nothing new in it. Even those who haven't seen many films could name a couple of similar films. The best ones. The worst part was, in horror films, ten guys go in and only one comes out. Sometimes none. The found-footage presentation was okay for such concept. The film was short and one day event based. Most of the story was on the night in an auditorium. The initial part had fair space to kick-start the tale with a simple intro. And then the following event did not stay up to the buildup.The basic storyline itself was very weak. The characters, and their behaviours, all easily gives out the upcoming scenes. So predictable, even the twist was ordinary. The way it ended was worse than ordinary. I felt the final scene with the cops was totally unnecessary. There's nothing wrong with the actors. Even filmmaking was acceptable. But I don't know how the production company okayed the screenplay. One of the low cost film, but earned better. Despite not received well by all the quarters. I would always encourage such small films, but I can't suggest it.2/10

The gallows follows a bunch of teenagers who are doing school play of The Gallows which happened in 1994 in a old school but weirdly a child was killed during the play. These teens then break into the school one night and soon they find out the ghost of Charlie Grimille hasn't left and soon each teenager starts to disappear. When the movie came out on DVD,I bought it cause I thought the film would be so so so cool and brilliant and scary but what I got was a pile of crap,this movie like most found footage but this had so much shaky camera in it,all the characters ever did was just cry and moan and start screaming'HELP,WERE TRAPPED,WERE GONNA DIE,WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!!' And all that begging. The acting in the film was honestly terrible,this was the biggest issue of the film the acting was like just crap. They could've thrown in Selena Gomez,Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus there would've been no difference..zero. The gallows is like most horror films these days horrible,don't watch this and if you do hopefully Charlie Grimille will kill you while your watching this.