American Ghost Hunter

I was intrigued by this, finding it on hulu, and love paranormal anything, even documentaries, but I was watching the first 10 minutes or so and saw a familiar face from one of the worst paranormal shows I have ever encountered (Paranormal State). Ryan Buell. And not far behind Ryan was the beginning of religious overtones (when attempting to watch Paranormal State, everything is about demons, not the scientific possibility and evidence of a spirit entity of a once living human being). I quit watching, couldn't get past first 10 minutes or so. Anything involving that hack is not legitimate. Avoid. Unless of course you looooved Paranormal State.

I wanted to like this movie, especially since I waited 6 months to finally receive it. I will make this short and sweet. It was awful. NO paranormal activity, just some major family dysfunction. Mr. Calek attempts to convince you that his family experienced paranormal events. There is no proof, no evidence to support his claims. Ryan Buell co-stars in this movie, he does not add anything to substantiate the paranormal claims and to top it off, Lorraine Warren, a well-known demonologist, gets in on the act. Why she took part in this very poorly crafted "documentary" I will never understand. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME or money on this movie. You will most likely be disappointed.

After my disappointment of this not being what I was expecting, I watched it again, and saw it for "itself". Lots of raw emotion. I was surprised that Ryan Buell finally felt free enough to share some of his story, which he has kept to himself up until now. I understand why he felt abused, and he was. Sad what happened to him and Chad, and this is the crux of the movie for me. Not sadness, but family, and how the paranormal effects "normal" people & the ones around them. We attach stigmas to things we don't want the neighbors to know. I hope that in time, these stigmas will just go away, because they are just prideful and stupid. Life is full of things that we don't understand, or are capable (at this time) to perceive. I grew up with "things" that scared my mother and my dad said didn't exist, and thought was stupid. I kept a lot of it to myself, and I grew up being scared all the time as I didn't really know how to handle "things". I know how to handle "things" now, but it would have been nice to have made it through high school without being a "weirdo", and scared out of my mind. Good movie, guys, keep it up.

I don't know who this lead guy is but his telling of his story is so bad and sounds so scripted and acted I couldn't stand it.

It's easy to figure out he's BSing is because of all the long pauses as he works to remember the lies. If I were sitting next to him in a bar and heard him telling this story, I'd call shenanigans about two sentences in and walk away.

And anything with Ryan Buell is crap. Sorry but most experienced ghost hunter at the age of 26? Again, I call shenanigans.

Don't waste your time unless you go into it planning to get a good laugh at all the fabricated drama. I'd put this on the same level of funny as Scary Movie 1,2,3, and 4.

So slow, just dragged along. I couldn't stay engaged AT ALL. I was 25 minutes in and had to bail... I get the feeling she probably has DID or something else mental health wise, but I don't see evidence of paranormal.