The Investigation: A Haunting in Sherwood

One of the better found footage films I've watched recently. I liked the premise of an investigator tapping someone's home security system so he can put his feet up and do his job from home, only for things to get out of hand.

Decent actors, decent pace, I found it simple but effective. If you view it as a micro-budget film, they've made the most out of what they had to work with.

I have never given a movie less than 2 stars before.... until now. Terrible acting, zero scares or atmosphere, and a ghost voice that sounds like a drunken pensioner coming home from a night at the pub, and having a major asthma attack whilst ringing a taxi. Seriously folks. Its that bad.

The feel of this film is very gritty and crawls under your skin like a ff film should. I made a point of the film being independent as it has that genuine homegrown British feel to it and I personally feel only adds to the character of the film. Obviously this is purely on a subjective basis and will not be to everyone's taste but it's definitely worth a watch a shows a great promise of what's to come in the industry from this particular director. Good work I say.

Another decent production from the growing portfolio of Richard Mansfield. As with his previous Found Footage efforts; A Haunting in Sherwood, appears to be another ultra low budget affair, so to expect 'Studio' quality production would be daft. What we get is a solid, genuinely creepy film which is, in parts, a little confusing as we get no explanation as to exactly why Gareth is investigating the house where the events take place. until later when it is loosely dropped in that neighbours have been complaining about noise coming from the house. Had that been explained earlier, the subsequent scenes would have been easier to follow as it seemed as though Gareth was in the house and hacking the guy's security for no reason at all. Nit-picking aside, we are left with a well paced, superbly acted tale, which has it's 'WTF' moments, which don't drag the film into the realms of daftness as can happen all too easily in this genre. Another solid piece from Mansfield Dark which leaves me thinking that fairly soon they will hit 'paydirt' and produce a classic. So far they have been close in several of their films without quite hitting the nail on the head. One hopes they find funding to produce more quality films as low budget filmmakers are the future of the genre.

I wish I could unsee that fake boring "movie". It literally sucked.