Death of a Ghost Hunter (2007)

Absolutely brilliant

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Of course it is not the best horror movie I have ever seen but if it gave some creeps to such a veteran horror movie watches like me, that means it has some value in those terms. but that's not really what i intend to write about. in my opinion this piece shows exactly what Christianity is about. and right now I'm not making any distinction between Catholics and Protestants (I was raised catholic and grew up in the Polish countryside (an ultra - catholic environment) fortunately, early in my teens I was smart enough to realize what is ANY organized religion really about - CONTROL, OPPRESSION, HARM and in many cases extreme VIOLENCE.(by the way I'm from Poland, where most of the society is catholic. when I came here I was shocked how RETARDED the protestant version can be. I mean the creationism as opposed to Catholic church which accepts Darwin's theory, treating that part of the Bible as a metaphor. when I came to this country, which I had thought of as one of the most developed countries in the world I found that the majority if the society still stays in the XIXth century frame of mind!!!! that was a shock for me but that does not mean that one is better or worse than the other. anyway, let's get back to the movie. it gave me some chills but it only means that in my personal opinion it did serve as a decent horror flick. but what struck me as the most important thing in the picture was that it played with religious notions and symbols making them the subject of the viewer's dread, which is in fact related to all the oppression, harm, violence, wickedness and, to sum up, simply EVIL which has been inflicted upon the humanity. hence there is no wonder that a movie like that can get some audiences scared Adam Mazur

Dealing with the paranormal an open mind is required. Carter Simms(Patti Tindall)is an experienced ghost hunter hired by Seth Masterson(Gordon Clark))to investigate a home twenty years after a family member, minister Joseph Masterson, and his family were slaughtered. Simms is accompanied by a photographer(Mike Marsh), a local reporter(Davina Joy)and an uninvited religion advocate(Lindsay Page). A three night investigation will prove residual paranormal activity and more. A gruesome story unfolds...and as expected...a bit more in director Sean Tretta's low-budget chiller. My favorite scene is the appearance of the ghost of the little girl peeping around the door. This film does bring an uneasiness, but nothing genuinely scary. Thank you Netflix for a creepy late night.

I hate to say that this was a really bad movie, because I like to think there is a gem in every bad horror flick and especially because I already spent nearly two hours watching it, but this was really a bad movie on multiple fronts.My biggest problem: story development. Closely followed by my second biggest problem: unbelievably long. Which was exacerbated by my other problems: badddd acting, bad scriptSee, the bad acting and bad script are forgivable for about the first hour when I still had hope that the story might be worth a d^mn. And I'm an incredibly patient person, so when I turned on the time remaining and saw that after an hour and a half I still had twenty minutes left(!) I thought my head might explode. Compound that with the fact that by that point I STILL had no idea how this whole story came together (many people have complained about predictability, but I'm going to have to go the other way. So much was left until the horrible 'recap' moment at the end, I had no f^cking clue what was going on. I'd thought that somehow the movie makers had forgotten about the drowned baby?! (Pulling a Paranormal Entity, you can't predict the end if you've been given false information at the beginning!) But the story, ultimately, is what is making my head throb at this very moment. A poorly made movie with low budget effects can be saved by an interesting story. Unfortunately, I don't find completely unbelievable Christian psycho-zealots interesting or believable. I don't say that because I'm a devout Christian or because I don't believe there are insane people out there, but because there is NO way in our society that what was supposedly transpiring at the Masterson household would go for twenty years undiscovered. You're telling me that police didn't find the freshly buried grave of Miranda? You're telling me the cop didn't report the nearly drowned infant, at which point anyone who KNEW the family would say, 'well they didn't have a baby?!' You're telling me that out of the fifteen odd photos of girls that had been abused in this fashion that NO ONE ever came forward? You're telling me that the police did no investigation into the murders and took the wife's suicide note word for it, 'look, I know my prints are on the murder weapon, but I totally didn't do this'? This story at its most basic level, sucks. Everyone out there who is so excited about the story must have just totally nutted over the Amityville horror (also stupid). Mix into that the fact that we have to deal with the stereotypical aggressive Christian girl who is obviously NOT supposed to be there for at least an hour and by god I might strap a black box onto my head and start killing people!Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. And the 'paranormal activity' in the house wasn't even that scary! Totally overdone and not threatening at all! Get me the Tylenol!

Yeah, well......yes...some of the acting is a textbook example of the fact that some folks got it, some folks don't.....I thought Patti was good...she is an actress, she passes basic training, and she has beautiful legs---that scene where she was writing her log in bed wearing a man's white shirt, took my breath away....yikes! The 2 other gals really don't have the chops---they are community theatre stock and oughta stay there, even tho the journalist gal certainly has the sex factor going for her.....the guy, the videographer, he was OK......he delivered his lines as if they were the first time he was saying them, and seemed natural enough.The story was good....very interesting....and maybe I'm a dullard, but the major plot point of the "religious expert" and her origin escaped me and was a surprise at the end. I enjoyed the film, overall, and the blurred image effects were creepy....we are overdue for a major film about these cheesy TV ghosthunters getting keel-hauled by something very far beyond entertainment, legend and speculation.BTW.....the special effects were SPOT-ON......admit it.....the little girl peaking around the door freakin' nailed me.......