Boo (2005)

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everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This movie had one star on Amazon but it sounded good so we watched it. It deserves 10 stars. It was different than the usual teenage gore fest. The acting was good and the main villain was terrifying. It also had a back story which was shown and had a point to it. All in all, I recommend this movie for a different perspective on scream fest. It had a point, people. I really want there to be a sequel but the bad guy was so good at being bad that I'm scared there's a sequel.

BOO is your typical indie horror flick set in an abandoned hospital. A bunch of unlikeable characters decide to visit and find out the place is haunted by sinister spirits from the past. Now, this is still a very bad film, completely clichéd throughout and lacking in interest, but it's better than a lot of indies I've watched recently. There's a cameo from Dee Wallace as a nurse, the film's quite well shot, and the script's a little perkier than normal.

This is a bad movie. I even have a appreciation for low budget movies i really do, i have seen a whole bunch.The speed of this movie is very very slow in the start. Then just lags on and on.The funny thing about this movie is the quality of the film as in "filming process" in not bad at all. This movie looks like a real movie. That is why im so surprised that the story and the actors we not better.I have never gave a movie a 1 on here before. But i had to on this movie because there are a million reasons why this movie could have been better but it was not due to things that were very fixable. Don't even bother.

Boo is set on Halloween as macho man Kevin (Jilon Ghai) & his mate Freddy (Josh Holt) dare two girls Jessie (Trish Coren) & Marie (Nicole Rayburn) to spend the night in an old supposedly haunted mental hospital called the Linda Vista, although not keen at first the two girls eventually agree. What Jessie & Marie don't know is that a third guy named Emmett (Happy Mahaney) has rigged the place with spooky cheap scares but soon finds outs that hospital is haunted anyway. As the four teens turn up & enter the hospital things go from bad to worse as an evil ghost tries to possess them in order to leave the confines the hospital & with all the doors & windows boarded up they are all trapped inside...Written & directed by Anthony C. Ferrante this haunted house ghost film was just about watchable but nothing special, to be honest I will have probably totally forgotten about it by the end of the week. The set-up is pretty typical stuff, a group of teens decide to spend the night in some creepy abandoned place which has various ghost stories surrounding it & find to their cost that the stories were real. At 90 odd minutes it has a reasonable pace although it does drag at times with seemingly endless shots of teens wandering around dark corridors & the story itself just isn't that gripping or satisfying. The narrative is poor with too many random occurrences or things which just aren't explained, how does the ghost of Jacob possess someone? I mean if the teens are there why doesn't he just possess them as soon as his previous body is killed? What's with the random clown with no feet that levitates for a few seconds, changes the expression on it's face mask & then just collapse are bleeding maggots & worms? What were all the flashbacks by Jessie all about? Why was she having vivid flashbacks to moments she couldn't have known anything about? How was her mother involved? Where did those keys she found come from? Why not tell her friends about them? Why does Jacob not want to live in a human body anymore at the end? It's never made clear. Also what's with the black cop who appeared in an in film film? Does that have relevance at all? Why did possessed people explode when shot? To be fair to Boo it's not the worst teen horror film out there but it's far from the best, one or two lines of dialogue are amusing with 'if you shoot me in the face I'll kick your ass' probably the highlight. A bit of a mess really, for every positive Boo has there's a negative.The feel & atmosphere of Boo is alright, the sets are quite moody but just covering everything in shadow does tend to get boring & the lack of any real visuals other than black gets annoying. There's a bit of gore & pleasingly the CGI computer effects are kept to a minimum with the majority of the gore achieved with practical on-set effect, there's a skinned dog whose head is blown off, a few exploding people, some decent skin melting effects, a melted hand & decent amounts of blood splatter. There's some blatant horror film rip-offs going on here with an opening sequence that is a mix between Halloween (1978) & Scream (1996) while the film after feels like a cross between House on Haunted Hill (1999) & The Grudge (2004).Apparently shot at the end of 2003 this wasn't released anywhere until mid 2006 which is no great surprise. Actress Dee Wallace has a small cameo while the rest of the cast are pretty poor.Boo is not I film that I thought was particularly good, it has a few moments I suppose but the messy script & poor narrative along with an all too familiar feel means I can't even describe Boo as mediocre, it's slightly below average but having said that it's not the worst film out there it's just that it's nowhere near the best either.