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The St. Francisville Experiment

The St. Francisville Experiment

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: File this movie under comedy!
Review: Are you kidding me? "Everything you've heard is true"?!?!?! What a farce. Somebody please explain to me why the subject of this film never made the headlines, the news, or even one of those paranormal shows on TV. Further, if it is real, why did it go straight to the shelves of Blockbuster rather than to the big screen? And hmmmm...coincidence that it was made right after the Blair Witch buzz?

It is so obvious from the start that this so-called documentary is really just a ....film laced with horrible acting and directing. I love how those cameras the actors are carrying always seem to fall in the perfect position when they are dropped - filming that bug in ths sandwhich, filming that kid getting dragged away, filming their own faces perfectly in the center of the screen.

This is a horrible movie. I'd rather wash my car then rent it again.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Here's the bottom line ...
Review: Based on an intriguing premise, the filmmakers hired four bad actors to spend the night in a haunted house, which in actuality is a very nice home somebody obviously left for the weekend so the film could be fabricated. A legitimate ghost hunter was brought in to make things even more authentic.

But, alas, nothing does happen in the house, so a bunch of dumb, cheap and non-scary sight gags (no pun intended) had to be created to fill in the gaps. The result is a cross between "The Real World" (with participants only half as intelligent -- now that's saying something) and a day in the worst amusement park haunted house ever.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: not too shabby/ 3.5 stars
Review: C'mon all you snobs out there! Where is your IMAGINATION? Of course this is a BWP ripoff...but so what? It was entertaining, and it had a couple moments that were so eerie, so creepy as to induce goosebumps. yes, the end is a bit of a letdown, but the initial chills were fun. If you can watch this little piece of atmosphere alone, in a dark room, without getting that feeling--you know...that cold dread of fear at the base of the spine...as it slowly moves upward, the hair on your arms stands up, the skin begins to crawl, the heart beats a bit harder, now there is definately a creeping,cold chill...like dead fingers brushing at the base of your skull washing over you and your no longer sure that you WANT to see whats in the attic, or in that closet...or what might be hidden, behind those old clothes, in that hole in the wall,--at least once...well, my friend, you are officially jaded. too bad for you!

This is a well done ghost/haunted house story. Lots of atmosphere and tension, could have used more subtlty for realism, but oh well. The ending is fun, albeit a tad cheezy, and a nice little capper for the story. For those of you who were angry at the BWP for not showing you the MONSTA (which i can't understand, by the way. GOD that movie scared the hell out of me!!!), well...don't blink or you'll miss it, cuz there is a gin-yu-wine RAH RAH MONSTA in this old house. Don't see this if you NEED for it all to be REAL (you know who you are)...it aint, but it has an "almost there" quality to it. See this if you want to watch a fun, genuinely freaky movie that delivers some real spoooooky chills.

All in all, nicely done. Could have taken a couple lessons in subtlty for full creep-out effect, but certainly could have been worse!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: so fake! shamed a beautiful small town!
Review: everything in that movie is so fake! that house they were at isn't even haunted...its just one of the many regular plantations we have in st.francisville! its pittiful they shamed such a beautiful small town! if they are going to do a movie about a haunted house in st.francisville then they should do one on The Myrtles Plantation (13th most haunted house in america)and not just make up a bunch of bull.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good ol' popcorn, DVD renting, Curled up w/ girlfriend fun
Review: Hey - it's a rip off -but at least it is better than the film it ripped off! If Tim and Paul were in the Blair Rench, they would have been as big as Ben and Matt after 'Good Will'. No matter how you slice it, this movie is a rip off - but it is YEARS better than the original - at least this peice of sh*t is scary! Madison and Ryan should be shot in the head for taking up the viewers time. But the two guys are both funny and real at the same time, which is a difficult feat in a rip off! Good job boys! As for the girls, well, if your subtext was to annoye your viewers, you should receive the acadamey award! LOVE - ME!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: not bad at all
Review: Hey, we've all seen the Blair Witch by now, and some of us liked it. Well, this movie shows you everything. Even though it's obviously fake, this movie is still way freaky. The ending was so amazingly over the top, and it satisfied oh so much. I had all the lights off, and the SurroundSound WAY up on this one. so, real, fake.... what does it matter? give it a shot, i don't think you'll be upset that you did.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: ALLOW ME TO ROCK YOU "unbelievers" WORLD !
Review: i am from st.francisville,louisiana. i am the house on the side of where these experiments were conducted. all you blair witch lovers would not appreciate such a good movie. i watched out my window as these 4 people were scared out of their mind. i`ve been inside that house before. and everything you saw is 100% real. believe what you want, but i know the truth. the blood all over the knives, the sounds, the cat, the moving chair, and more are all things that happen nightly, i've even got proof. and i would never spend the night in that house.....again. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE MISSING. EITHER SEE THE MOVIE, OR VISIT THE HOUSE.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Ghost calls cops on idiotic ghost hunters
Review: I bought this thing. As one reviewer said, "It's Awful". There is no excuse for trying to pawn this off as "true"."The Last Broadcast" is an award winner compared to this.1-Four troglodytes with no real experience attempt to cleanse a house of ghosts.2- The house is haunted by a serial murderess from New Orleans who might have fled to St. Francisville.There is also another ghost there whose name is Charles.Actually he is the only one who has any intellegence in the whole movie.3-The four take on an abandoned antebellum house that is completely furnished and immaculately clean.Even the attic has no dust or cobwebs .The house is fully electric and the power is on4-They continue to inform the ghosts that they are protected by divine white light.Also, they love them and want to help them.Of course the ghosts see through this, as they listen to the cursing and other foul language coming out of the four. If you can get through this consider yourself possessed with the virtue of patience.The ghost Charles, we are told, calls 911 to get rid of the four dodos.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Scary, scary, scary.
Review: I can't believe how low of a rating that his movie has recieved! This was sooo scary. Honestly, when I was done watching it, I had the heebie-geebies! Don't let the PG-13 rating throw you off. I thought how sacry can a PG-13 movies be? Boy was I proven wrong.

This is a true story about a team of ghost hunters that go into a haunted mansion and just the tapes roll. What you see actually happens.

What I liked is how the start you get a backgroud of the person who owned the house and the horrific things that she did to her slaves.

It starts off slow at first (slow but interesting), then all hell breakes lose. It all comes to a scary climax when the team tries to clense the house, but there is just problem...the ghost (charles...and there could be more there) don't want to leave.

I can't say enough good things about this movie.

When you see this, you must do two thigns....don't turn out the lights, and don't see this when yer alone in the house.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Obviously just a movie, but still pretty creepy
Review: I didn't expect much from this movie since it was straight-to-video..., but it did have its moments. While it stated in the beginning that it is all real, there were moments when I believed it, and many moments when I didn't. For instance, Madison, the so-called psychic was so overdramatic and seemed like she was reading lines off a cue card. Certain camera angles (the bug-in-the-sandwich shot), and the somewhat over-the-top ending made me question the reality of it all. Also, they had a seance with a Ouija board! You can buy those things at K-Mart, so that was a give away that it was all staged. However, the reactions the actors had when something scary happened was believable and I can honestly say I could feel myself tense up with fear and suspense when someone would enter a dark room or passageway. My advice: rent it for a few good scares, but don't buy into the whole "this is real" nonsense.


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