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Welcome to the latest installment in a brand-new series here on Nerdly, Terrible Terror, in which we highlight some of, what we think, are the Worst horror movies to have ever burnt my retina with their atrociousness. Up this time is The Paranormal Incident – a found-footage hospital horror that was first released back in 2012.

Stars: Amanda Barton, Keith Compton, Thomas Downey, Brett Edwards, Oliver Rayon, Derrick Scott, Sabrina Villalobos | Written by Matthew Bolton, Chris W. Freeman | Directed by Matthew Bolton

The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills turn into nightmares as members of the group go missing without a sound, cell phones mysteriously vanish, corridors turn into mazes, walls appear where doors once stood, flashlights fail and something or someone begins toying with the group.

Unsurprisingly, the cunningly titled “The Paranormal Incident” is yet another low budget found footage affair, in this case following a bunch of unfortunate lame-brains as they wander around the usual abandoned lunatic asylum. The film marks the writing and directorial debut of Matthew Bolton, who previously worked on a variety of schlock rip-offs such as “2012 Doomsday” and “I am Omega” – though even these delightful films aren’t quite dreadful enough to prepare the viewer for the mind-raping catastrophe on offer here. For the terminally curious, or those with a perverse desire to surgically scrape the bottom of the barrel, the film lands shortly on region 2 DVD via Arrow Films. The asylum in question is the apparently infamous (though oddly casually unguarded) Odenbrook Sanitarium, where a mass suicide took place some sixty years back. In the present day, a gang of 6 monstrous college students head inside with their cameras, hoping capture evidence of the paranormal.

The Paranormal Incident

Stars: Amanda Barton, Keith Compton, Thomas Downey, Brett Edwards, Oliver Rayon, Derrick Scott, Sabrina Villalobos | Written by Matthew Bolton, Chris W. Freeman | Directed by Matthew Bolton

The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills turn into nightmares as members of the group go missing without a sound, cell phones mysteriously vanish, corridors turn into mazes, walls appear where doors once stood, flashlights fail and something or someone begins toying with the group. Days later, when five of the six friends turn up missing, the lone survivor must go through the recovered footage in order to clear his name and find out what happened to his friends.

Christ, not another found footage film… That was my initial reaction as...

Sorority Party Massacre co-director (with Justin Jones) and writer-producer Chris Freeman caught up with Dread to give us the skinny on that flick (see our previous coverage here) as well as to provide us an exclusive trailer, new stills and key art from his completed found footage feature Paranormal Incident. Read on!

Written and directed my Matthew Bolton from a story he co-wrote with Freeman, Paranormal Incident stars Chelsea Vincent, Brett Edwards, Derrick Scott, Sabrina Villalobos, Nadia Underwood, Amanda Barton and Oliver Rayo.

Set in 1949, the synopsis reads, “The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills turn into nightmares as members of the group go missing without a sound, cell phones mysteriously vanish, corridors turn into mazes, walls appear where doors once stood,...