Paranormal Investigation

Really slow, with a scant plot that has been done many times before. Brings nothing new to the table.

Many amateur and wannabe filmmakers these days are making possession movies and movies based on the found footage premise; this melds the two together in a "sandwich au merde". Some of them are okay, most are bad, some are awful. This one's awful. It takes the basic premises of "The Exorcist" and "Paranormal Activity", removes all of what made those movies good, and retains the leftovers. This one has every cliché of a film in its genre, except it executes them in a way which leaves you frustrated as hell, and swearing like an angry Frenchman.

I came across this via Netflix and being the movie masochist I am I foolishly ventured in despite my belief that France simply cannot do horror.

You know the drill, a paranormal investigator goes somewhere and bad stuff happens. On this occasion it's not a team but one person and he's following a young man whose behavior shifted after participating in a Ouija session.

Not found footage but mostly done through fixed cams and with lots of night vision (Most of it pink for some reason) it certainly looks like it had some money behind it but alas they couldn't pay for competent writers.

Now at first after heading onto IMDB I couldn't find the film and was ready to add it myself. Eventually I located it only to discover a bare bones page which demonstrates just how much the creators cared about their creation. The name, a poster and that's basically it. The IMDB community clearly recognized this and not only does it have a poor rating but only 8 people had bothered to watch it.

This boys and girls is what NOT to do when your a movie maker, if you don't care about your film why should others?

Back to the film as I said the writing here is flawed, partially a weak script and partially because they had absolutely nothing to work with. It's as unoriginal as movies get, you'll have seen it all before and it's the absolute pits.

Hop, skip and jump over this generic possession mess.

The Good:

Nope

The Bad:

Pink night vision is just senseless

Devoid of originality

To be honest, I went into watching Paranormal Investigation with very low expectations, especially after reading reviews on here. I've come out of it though, with the unpopular opinion that this film isn't actually bad. It's not great, but I did think it was an interesting watch, and for the most part, the acting by those that played the parents and son was done really well. I'd probably only recommend this film to those who are fans of the found footage genre; if that's you, then I believe it's worth a watch.

Nothing new there. Well... There is something, when I think a bit more: a genuine sense of authenticity. You believe it is actually happening, for real. The characters are engaging and the acting is very good.

That is obviously the reason I watched it till the end, which I found less believable (how did Andreï succeed in finding such information so so quickly and easily?

And the final scene was utterly predictable, therefore disappponting. That is why three stars are missing...