Judas Ghost (2013)

One of my all time favorites.

best movie i've ever seen.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I've been watching a lot of these 'ghost chaser' type movies lately... a lot of them are first person and often feature a group of amateurs who aren't really expecting much to happen... then get in over their heads. Judas Ghost differs in that the protagonists are supposedly seasoned professionals who have dealt with many verified hauntings along an established spectrum of difficulty/danger. In that way they're more like the academics in Ghostbusters than the dumb college kids in The Blair Witch Project. Also, seeing as the supernatural is an established and 'known' thing going in for these characters it does away with any chicanery of verisimilitude... it's pure fantasy from the get-go. The 'psychic' character is as powerful and reliable as their technology. Their techniques are scientific and magical. In a way, it's a bit more like a low-powered superhero movie or an episode of Dr. Who. And like Dr. Who, it felt a lot like a low budget TV show. All in all, it wasn't very interesting and certainly not suspenseful or scary. Not particularly gory either. The writing is adequate but pedestrian. The acting is good enough. The special effects are TV quality and, again, adequate. It would be passable as a standard episode of some second-string occult show like Friday The 13th: The Series but as a movie? It's pretty weak stuff.

I caught this little unknown gem on On-Demand the other evening. I will admit I was bored, and I did not put much stock in this movie being any different from the (what seems like) millions of others in the same vein populating the rentals. Boy, was I in for a nice surprise!"Judas Ghost" is about a team of professional ghost hunters sent in to do some research on an old school hall. It looks innocent enough during daylight, but things do not stay innocent for very long. Doors appear and disappear; the same with telephones. The ghost hunters soon find themselves surrounded by a darkness...that bleeds. And the darkness seems to be everywhere. They all realize they are now in a race to fend off or defeat whatever is stalking them.One thing about this movie I really enjoyed was the cast. No one tried to overact his/her role. The dialogue was sincere and believable. Also, as another reviewer pointed out, I actually CARED about what happened to all these people. In so many other movies of this type, there always seems to be one character you cannot stand, one character you want dead immediately, and you can pretty much determine what will happen to the others. Also, the people involved with this production told their story and got the hell outta Dodge. There was no unnecessary shots of people mugging for the cameras or staring off into space for absolutely no reason. Alas, that is also one of the drawbacks: the movie just did not last long enough. Coming in at 74 minutes, it just needed a little more story to have received a higher rating from me.Still, I can recommend this one. The release I saw rated this "unrated." It does contain some disturbing images and language. I say go for it!

There's not enough to keep horror fans entertained even if it is for under 70 minutes. The characters are wooden and appear to read a script 30 seconds before being filmed and there's no real development or story.OK so we know they are ghost hunters but how do they develop magic powers and create lights with chalk and salt??? A door that moves around a room and a ghost that stands around not doing much. The music was OK but didn't have the suspense or purpose of a higher budget film.Positives, Lucy Cudden looked amazing (worth a couple of stars for her)and it was better than watching terrestrial rubbish. Not horrendous but not great.

I came across this film randomly and after reading the one review here, I thought I'd take a chance and give it a go. Like most people, I'm always wary of fake reviews on here, and I did wonder if that was the case here - but it wasn't. Wow. I'm a total horror addict and I loved this film. It wasn't perfect, but it was still excellent. It was very, very creepy, and one of those where you daren't look behind you throughout. I'll also be sleeping with the lights on tonight!The effects were great and perfect for the film, and everything was the right amount of creepiness without becoming boring or silly.If you like your supernatural/ghost films, definitely give this a watch.