The Blackout Experiments

The film is very well made. This director knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat and take you deep into the minds of the people involved in the documentary. I happen to know about the haunt, so the film didn't really scare me, but if you haven't heard of Blackout, just watch the movie and you will be shocked. It is 100% real, and the documentary is very well made. The surprising thing about the documentary, isn't even necessarily the few glimpses that you see of the haunt. It is the people who go through it and let it become and addiction... basically an obsession. Blackout really knows how to get into people's heads. They are very good at it! I loved it!

You have a choice in life- Get attention by hard work, seek positivity, overcome challenge, achieve life satisfaction... Or- This, needing attention by shock, negative posturing, and wallering in weird, base-need mindlessness- This film is an attempt at the latter and, like cult member insecurity behavior, they take peoples money to scare them as if they are now important, accepted and part of this club, new fetish, or documentary... Waste of time- Transparent in the intent, and insults the minds of productive, thinking humans. Here, sign my paper. Pay me your money... Boo- thanks. The 'scary' part only -is that people actually buy into it and can't think two steps ahead. Go to a haunted house?... Watch a horror flick?... See a Dominatrix?... but This is pathetic- I really tried, I strained even to get any smidge of value or understanding- but No- sad to watch distorted people with weak minds pretending to want to belong- Not sure which is more sad to watch- the dweebs (actors) paying to have weirdos scare them... Or the BOut guys taking these peoples money, filming a shake cam videos, and exploiting these troubled, psyche-dim participants- to make more money selling the silly process as a documentary? Too close to call-

Part of me was actually looking forward to 'The Blackout Experiments'. The premise was really interesting and quite ambitious and there were some great ideas here. It was hardly a film that was dead in the water from the start, don't know that many films out there like that. This is coming from somebody who genuinely wanted 'The Blackout Experiments' to work, not a malicious person who doesn't like anything (actually try to be perceptive and am usually generous).

Just didn't care for 'The Blackout Experiments' at all unfortunately, though am going to be a little more forgiving than others in summing up my disappointed thoughts. Interesting concept wasted (grrr!) and great ideas not followed through, that was one of the biggest things that annoyed me. There's definitely far worse around, but am going to have to be on the negative side of the mixed, well negative, critical reception.

If there was one redeeming value with 'The Blackout Experiments', it was the score which was quite ominous. One just wishes that carried over in everything else.

Everything in 'The Blackout Experiments' felt bland and too safe, with not enough to sustain much interest. Have seen far worse looking films, but more atmosphere and smoothness was sorely needed.

'The Blackout Experiments' lacked surprises to be shocking or with enough to make one illuminated or amazed at what they are hearing. Learned nothing from this. It lacked suspense or any kind of atmosphere to be scary, the very few attempts at this aspect were predictable and easily foreseeable too early. Things like torture was gratuitous and unintentionally silly. One doesn't learn enough to be properly intrigued or care about what is being said or shown to them. The very dull pace, deadeningly so in spots, and over-extended length kills any intensity, of which there is pretty much none.

Some of the therapeutic aspects, which in my mind the film spends rather too much emphasis on, lack depth and get repetitive, the film is rather too heavy on the talk and too much of it is rambling and self indulgent and the characters didn't engage or even connect with me. Even those in front of the camera don't look that interested.

All in all, didn't care for it. 2/10

This movie is boring as hell. There is nothing interesting about it at all. The "torture" scenes are like tickle fights compared to most movies in the genre. I get the premise of the movie, it's just not good. The attempt at realism is somewhat believable, but it's just not entertaining. Not scary, not horrifying, not interesting. This film could have been great if they had taken it more in the horror direction. It felt like they wanted it to be a horror movie, but were too afraid to go there. It was one of those flicks that seems like it will get good at any moment, but never makes it. It's worse than a bad B movie because I couldn't turn it off within the first five minutes. As a matter of fact, I'm not wasting any more of my life on this abortion. You have been warned.

Just a note to anyone interested in this movie and the previous reviewer....this IS a REAL documentary. This stuff really did happen and is happening. These are real people who were part of some of the experiments.

It is not a 'so called documentary'....it IS a documentary. After all that though, I didn't like it. People who like this sort of thing may find comfort knowing they are not alone and there is something out there that can cater for them.