The Last Ghost Hunters

Do not waste your time with this. It was drawn out and boring. They tried and I commend them for it, but it was just so bad.the acting, the sound, all of it. I swear the tree frog audio was making me want to stab a ice pick through my ear!

I have watched plenty of low and no budget movies in my time, but the easiest way to summarize this movie is: "How the hell does it have a >7 star review? JUST HOW???"

I can forgive the plot holes in the story, most likely written by one person or a very small group of writers. The story can be easily forgiven as long as it has some interesting concepts to hold interest: this is maybe sort of there if you look REALLY REALLY hard?

The acting is pretty bad, which is expected of low/no budget movies. This is easily overlookable for anyone that isn't expecting someone thats not A-tier talent to have good, consistent acting. The acting isn't the worst I've seen but its far from good.

The video editing is probably the best part of the movie, shots that seem like they should make sense although they are maybe not quite where they should be. It feels like a young editor trying their best with what they have to work with and honestly i can say that they did the best they probably could with it.

All of this leads to the absolute worst part of the whole movie: The audio.

The volume levels and gain are totally inconsistent even from one shot in the same scene to the next. There are plenty of high priced audio equipment and i understand the budget probably wasn't there, but there are cheaper alternatives that could have worked better. Parts of this movie (like every scene when they're in the car) sound like they were recorded by one of the actor's phones placed at the bottom of a pringles can.

I wouldn't just give this a low rating, i would rate it as utterly unwatchable and say that anyone looking at these reviews before watching the movie has already wasted more time than they should for this movie.

I like this. There's a certain roughness and dichotomy between its elements which creates this low-budget charm.

I like the jumping-around narrative, and the chemistry between the characters.

I get it: this is very much like those ghost-hunter serieses on History Channel and such. Perfect! Also, a somewhat coherent narrative plus any effect is better than 1 hour footage of empty corridors in those shows.

They also used the Psychic Girl well. She used her powers in useful ways, which felt natural to the universe.

On the sidenote, the filter for the Old Lady Interviews gave me an Amytiville-vibe.

I also don't have problem with pacinig. They spend pretty equal time on a traditional strucure: establishing the threat, expanding on what the threat is, finaly fighting the threat. And they do a pretty good job showing instead of telling, what is the most common problem with low budget projects.

My only complaint is kinda nitpicky, and it is the Greek Fire. Kinda strange they didn't use the actual substance, but went for some kinda ritual, which wasn't even greek but judeo-christian (in name only at least).

I'd've also consider cutting any footage with the crew after the explosion for an even stronger ending.

Using a mix a textures and style the film takes us on journey revealing spirits trapped by a powerful demonic force. Shot as a narrative but also using found footage and flashbacks the story is revealed as the ghost investigators discover that domestic violence transcends the spirit world. Worth a view or two.

I have no idea how anyone could rate this movie higher than a one star. The acting is so bad, it is painful. The last half of the movie is clearly shot on a green screen because the actors have a halo of light around them and it's the same room picture as the background. They used up all their money in the beginning obviously and the special effects suffered.

Please don't waste your time watching, my forehead hurts from all the facepalms that occurred while I suffered through.