Trace (2015)

I'll tell you why so serious

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

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

The acting in this movie is really good.

It totally worked for me. I don't watch scary movies much. But what I liked was the psychological tension and the fact that we never see "it" but feel the terror. Or at least I felt terror!!! And I liked the premise with the EVP. Different. It had honest characters who made really bad choices. I was emotionally involved. I felt something, which is all I can ask of any art form.

the only reason I tried out this movie was because it had the EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) gimmick attached to it. I first saw this in a horror movie "White Noise" 2004 with Michael Keaton and it was fun, even a bit scary for how young I was at the time.The people making this film seem not to understand what EVP even is. Of course it's not a real thing --- there's no such thing as ghosts --- but the idea of the phenomenon, being able to hear very faint voices in static or empty background noise of audio recordings, is a fun and scary concept to play with. This film seems not to understand this at all, as every instance of EVP that is shown involves no soft, barely audible sounds that might be voices, but some loud as hell stereotypical "demonic voice" clearly and unambiguously speaking words, easily understood and understandable just by turning the volume up slightly.On top of that the film seems to give up on this gimmick around half-way through and begins to resort to the stereotypical haunting gimmick, with visual hallucinations and spooky dreams. Just listening to an EVP once seems to cause the demon to just instantly attack the person and try to kill them. No subtlety, no suspense, no slow-burn creepiness, just a full-blown Big Scary Face In A Mirror and then kill.Underlying the failure of the main gimmick, the writing and dialogue is abysmal. It's so terrible it's impossible to tell if the actors are genuinely bad or just too inexperienced to make anything worthwhile out of the script

Trace is a movie with an interesting premise; it follows the trend of chasing paranormal activity through electromagnetic disturbance which is well beyond the human sound range. A few friends decide to get together and test out some equipment while mid-party. Things go awry as the friends slowly die one by one. It is revealed that the EVP (recordig) that was made on the party night, has a list of people and the order in which they will die in. They start to die in that order.The rest of the movie plays out in typical fashion. It is very dull, lackluster and feels like it could have had more done with the plot. More importantly many of the death scenes do not have anything climatic happening; a few of the turn into simple suicides or murder by accident. The entire premise is that a demon has been called from the other side (Asgaroth) and is now picking off people one by one so that he can gain power and cross over into the other side. The movie reveals that it is a prank, but it turns out the demon appears anyway. His debut is computer rendered, but doesn't look too impressive and I had to say it was a bad movie throughout.This movie does not feel much like horror and I do not recommend this movie for anyone but die-hard horror fans.Review originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=10454)

you have to see this film the story and cast are great I think Maddie McGuire as( Heather) will get the best supporting Oscar for her work in this film. I hope to see a lot more of her on film. as for the rest of the cast they all shine. The special effects and story line draw you in and keep you guessing. I cant wait to buy this when its for sale. Director writer Ryan Bookhart will be the next Hitchcock I hope to see more from him soon. And Jesse Pepe as Parker was scary . this young man is going places. Maddie McGuire again I cant say enough about her extremely talented as I said before I cant wait to see more of the actor. She has a command of getting in to her character and making it hers.