Apartment 143 (2012)
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infrared filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group’s attempts to contact the “other side” will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return.
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This movie is a slow burn that employs the proper frights just as effectively. The problem really lies in the film's first "conclusion," then the second, and, sadly, there's a third, plus the setup for the final gotcha. This is what keeps it from being a 9 or a 10 in my book. There were a few scenes that scared me so much I actually jumped and shouted, then continued to grip my husband's arm, which is rare. Those scares were earned, as each moment was genuinely unnerving. What's disappointing for me as a writer and an author is that there actually are ways in which the final frames they chose to conclude with could have been set up to succeed, but what we're left with is a scenario in which it seems production couldn't decide on the 'choose your own adventure.' So, after an amazing monologue, a few sets of goosebumps and some scenes you won't forget, I basically felt like I'd just got played by a hustler, but instead of feeling angry or embarrassed, I was afraid to sleep with the lights off. So many mixed emotions!
Awful movie. The movie was boring except for a few times in the middle and at the very end. My friend fell asleep...this is supposed to be a horror movie? It's not. This movie isn't good at all. There is one part that is interesting and that's about it. it's a bad movie. The only way this would get a ten out of ten review is on the boring scale. Yes, ten out of ten boring movie
I had high expectations for this movie. I love movies about ghosts, and I love found footage movies. So, I figured this one would be perfect. I was completely and totally wrong. I enjoyed the characters and the back story. That's all I enjoyed though. During much of the movie, I had to turn the volume up all the way, and I still had difficulty hearing the dialog. Then, came the end of the movie. Here is a paranormal investigator, standing in a room with a girl levitating over her bed, and instead of focusing the camera on the levitating girl, the investigator goes back and forth from the psychologist and the girl's father. I actually yelled at the screen, 'Just point the camera at the girl!' I was also confused as to why this movie was in the found footage genre. No one dies. I would call this more of a mockumentary than found footage.
The widower Alan White (Kai Lennox) invites the parapsychologists Dr. Helzer (Michael O'Keefe), Ellen Keegan (Fiona Glascott) and Paul Ortega (Rick Gonzalez) to investigate a supernatural phenomenon in his apartment in an old apartment building. Alan is an unemployed agronomist engineer that lives with his four year-old son Benny (Damian Roman) and his teenage daughter Caitlin (Gia Mantegna), who blames her father for the death of her mother Cynthia (Laura Martuscelli) in a car crash. After witnessing weird events, Dr. Helzer and his team find the cause of the activities or not?"Emergo" is another boring and unoriginal movie that follows the "style" of "The Blair Witch Project" of making cheap movies with handy cam, no lighting and poor edition. There are a couple of scary moments but along the 80 minutes running time there are too much technical explanation for the haunted apartment by the annoying Dr. Helzer. This Spanish variation of paranormal activity is a waste of time. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Apartamento 143" ("Apartment 143")