Eloise (2017)

Simply Perfect

i must have seen a different film!!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The movie wasn't THAT bad. The only reason I watched it is because I grew up not far from there and didn't realize this was shot on site. I had never been in there but as a kid was threatened to be thrown in there 50 times (C'mon every town has one of these places that kids know of like "If you don't straighten up we're going to have you thrown in Shady Pines". Well for us it was Eloise).The most horrifying thing about this movie was how they got that black dude to play that 1970s J.J. stereotype then have him stealing the drugs and shooting at everything. Having him nearly drown was the icing on the cake as you know black people are afraid of water too (eyeroll).TRIVIA: Jackie Wilson is buried in a cemetery across the road from this place. It was paupers grave for years until they raised enough money for a proper monument.

Growing up in the shadow of Eloise I remember being so excited when they shot the film here. The asylum has a rich history and is a magnate for local urban legends and paranormal investigators. Great fodder for a modern ghost story, right? Not in the film Eloise. In spite of terrific things going for the location and history, Eloise manages to go thin on the plot, trots out one dimensional characters, one after the other, and cheats the viewer by presenting spooker tropes we've all seen done before -- and better elsewhere! Eloise gets major points for cinematic technique - the visuals and sound were excellent. But personally, I'd prefer to watch the crew from Ghost Hunters schlep around the remains Eloise Asylum for better "scare".

*** This review may contain spoilers *** When a film starts with a premise that is both legally and technically incorrect (that you'd have to go to a hospital where someone may or may not have died to retrieve a death certificate)then you know that you are in trouble. When you have then have to believe that someone would have to commit a a series of felonies just to get something which is readily available at any state's department of vital records (for a small fee) then you know that the film you are watching is a dog.This is very little suspense in this film and almost no real "horror." The "disturbing scenes" are actually quite tame in comparison to most films out on the market. And the protagonist and his cohort are not interesting enough to distract the viewer from the numerous inconsistencies and plot holes which which this film is replete.Other than to see the always exceptional Eliza Dushku in form-fitting clothing and perhaps to enjoy a vintage Cadillac convertible being shown, there's really nothing here to recommend this film. It's another dull and forgettable low budget offering whose trailer is far more interesting than its entirety.

Eloise (2017): Almost 80% of the horrors have the same usual plot where group of buddies enter a haunted place and gets in trouble with an invisible force.Burnt hospitals and asylums are the most favorite picks of film makers to make a horror without any uch struggle.Eloise follows the same way and unfortunately into the same disappointment track.Plot: Set in a defunct insane asylum known as 'Eloise,' four friends break into the abandoned institution in hopes of finding a death certificate, which will grant one of them the rights to a sizable inheritance. While inside the asylum, the group not only finds that Eloise houses a horrifying history but also the truth about their own tragic pasts.Plus Points: 1)Decent reason for entering an asylum: Most of the horror films make the characters to go into the haunted places for fun or else for camping.But in Eloise,they go for retrieving a death certificate of a person such that it can bring them a huge fortune.Minus Points: Except for a decent start,movie slowly descends into disaster in every possible way.There is not even a single scene which feels new.Horror scenes are so poor and not at all scary.Actors are average and did nothing to save this film.Poor direction and writing spoiled the entire film.So,Eloise is one among several other disappointing horrors we mostly see these days.My rating 4/10