Invoked (2015)

Five young adults spend Halloween in an empty Hostel "west of Ireland." There is no electricity except there is power to the installed cameras, go figure. They drink, smoke, start a fire and play "ask the glass" a home made Ouija board. They managed to invoke (Conjuring has already been taken) a spirit (Paula Phelan) that wants "my children." Oh yes, this is a murder house too. At 53 minutes things begin to happen, no one believes the man who first filmed the ghost and apparently he had a camera you can't rewind and look at what you just shot.The film degrades into the classic run cam, floor cam, shoe cam, whine and snivel cam, scream in the dark cam, and girl dragged across the floor cam...been there done that and better. One of the characters mentions the film "Visions of Darkness" known for using paradoxical backgrounds. Normally clues like this are mentioned and then tie into the film in such a way to demonstrate creative genius of the script writer/director. I didn't notice that in this film where seeing landscapes was severely limited by the hand held genre.Guide: F-word. sex. Nudity? (Lynn Larkin) Actors used their real names.

A film that lacks any form of substance is going to get a very brief review from me. This is another found footage film, a genre which I totally disapprove of.I can't even think of anything to say in a review as there really isn't anything to point out in the movie other than how crap it is. This movie is an hour and half of shaky camera work and screaming with all the actors arguing over the top of each other non stop. Its painfully frustrating. Its unforgivably awful. Think of all the time, effort and money the cast and crew could have been investing into other recreational activities instead of giving birth to this frightful abomination of celluloid.Why am I even reviewing this movie? Why am I giving it any more attention that I already did by falling into the trap of watching it!?

As soon as you meet the main characters their personality becomes apparent. Personality is singular because they all have the same one: annoying grade-school child. from the start of the movie they are constantly talking, playing stupid jokes and laughing at butts several times.The plot is not surprising in any way. If you've seen any ghost story plot this one is not much different. The only difference between this and a ghost story is the character development they borrowed from slashers, by having the characters annoy each other as well as the audience as well as getting drunk and high which never should be mistaken for characterization. This movie was agonizing and the only reason why I watched it all is because I never ended a movie early before.

We are tired of seeing horror films with very high budgets that do not bring the true essence of the genre and not come cheap copies of movies 80s desperately trying to scare however without success, with this film Imvoked I really surprised myself, these young people with ultra low budget could bring something genuine and maintain the suspense throughout the film, with very hefty camera tricks and scares that really were scored at the right times, to be a low budget film I was with a little bias however these directors surprised me and They put me through erally moments of good scares and bring something genunino that we don't see since the Blair witch projections, Really reconmendo this film and reconmendo for all horror fans who are already tired of always seeing the same style cliché of American blockbuster.