Official Trailer
Synopsis: Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years.
All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera.
They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted - it is alive - and it has no intention of ever letting them leave. They find themselves lost in a labyrinth maze of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients.
They soon begin to question their own sanity, slipping deeper and deeper into the depths of madness, ultimately discovering the truth behind the hospital's dark past... and taping what will be their final episode.
Review: Grave Encounters was the reality show to end all reality shows - years ahead of its time. It’s a ghost hunting endeavor - one that went so far in its sixth episode that uncovered such a violently present haunting that the show ended right then and there. Why? Because Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and his team of paranormal detectives (which include yummy Ashleigh Gryzko, and a snooze saving performance by Houston Gray) found what they were looking for when they entered the closed down Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital for a locked in, overnight campout, and were never heard from again. Don't believe it? Watch the raw footage, as reluctantly presented to you by the show's producer, and see for yourself what happened.
So what’s the general story here? This team of spectral sleuths lock themselves in for the night with the cameras and equipment - chained in by the caretaker himself - with an understanding that he would return the following morning at 6AM to set them free, footage (or lack of) and all. Given a tour of the place before lockdown, the team (and the audience) is shown several reputed hotspots within the facility (such as a third floor window that has been known to open on its own certain nights), and a bloodstained bathtub where a patient had committed suicide. Once a home for some of the country's worst psychiatric cases, it was shut down after some of the patients rebelled and killed its primary doctor - a man who mercilessly performed experimental brain surgeries without check or remorse. "X" marks the spots, night vision cameras are put into place, and the long, long night begins…
Without spoiling what you don’t already get from the trailer itself, all Hell breaks loose, and they get much more than they had bargained for. One by one the team begins to go missing, or experience nightmarish hauntings until they're on their heels, begging for the morning to come. When 6AM passes, and the skies are still dark at 1PM the following day, they realize they have entered something possibly inescapable. There are, of course, the underground tunnels that are said to lead to other buildings in the compound, but with their batteries near death, there is virtually no light to guide them - and who wants to go down there after what they've already seen and heard?
[Review by John Marrone]
It's one of the best and scariest movies I've ever seen, I highly recommend it
