Sanatorium

This is the most blandness and generic movie I have ever seen. The story is that your generic paranormal investigators go to an abandoned place, and something bad happened to them. It is easily predictable and doesn't do anything new with this type of plot. The movie tries to have a backstory to the ghost, but it doesn't explore it that much and is rather generic. It goes through the same trope with cheap jump scares, and characters get killed off one by one. The movie itself is boring with the characters doing the same thing with them wandering around and trying to capture supernatural. Not even the jump scares are that creative and feel like they were done before. And the ending itself is generic.

Otherwise, not much, if anything, new here. Paranormal and found footage movies need to come up with something new and/or original instead of the same tired tropes. I've seen "reality" shows more engaging. I watched it through to the end hoping to not be disappointed. It's not a terrible watch for a low-budget flick but, I would only recommend it if you are in need of something to occupy your time or background noise. Why does IMDB require so many characters?! Wouldn't 250 be just as efficient? I'm not sure what else to say so, I'm just trying to meet the minimum requirement for this review..

Another film cashing in on the found footage haunted sanatorium craze. This is one is passable with a few solid scares, a lot of the usual gimmicks and occassionally a few interesting set ups. Worth a watch if you're a fan of the subgenre and interested in a scare or two to pass the time.

It's been done before, Grave Encounters springs to mind, but it's not bad for a low budget indie. I've seen worse, a lot worse, I've seen better, much better, this sits nicely in the middle ground, a reasonable plot, some scares, I little claret, worth a watch in my humble opinion.

SANATORIUM is yet another completely familiar and routine found footage horror film. Once again we follow around a dull young cast playing some paranormal investigators shooting a new location for their TV series. They head off to a long-abandoned sanatorium, with the usual night vision footage making up the bulk of the proceedings. There's very little in the way of horror, just lots of creeping around and not much in the way of a script; I found it very dull, and not at all frightening.

I think this title deserves more than 4*, some movies rated 4* on here are mediocre at best with some Tara Reid level acting, but this one as a good cast (except for the annoying tall guy) with good acting, it kept me engaged and on the edge most of it... Yes it is very cliché as others say, but that doesn't make it bad in my eye. Personally I loved it! P.s. I would rate it a solid 6*, but I want the rating to go up a little so I made my 6 a 10.

This is yet another "found footage" movie in the vein of "Blair Witch" and all the "Paranormal Activity" (Part Pi) continuations. However, this one worked--for me anyway. A crew of a local television show is set to visit a closed sanatorium to investigate rumors of an alleged ghost. You've got your cookie-cutter cast, including one male who is just so despicable you want to slap him until your arms get tired. Again, due to constrictions, I will not go further into the plot. I will say though this is yet another shining example of "less is more." Yes, there is some violence but it is not over the top. It's what you DON'T see but hear that completely creeps you out. "After Dark Productions" has made some really good horror movies, and I'm glad to see it is up to its old tricks again! Nicely directed, acted, and edited "Sanatorium" was a pleasant (and scary) surprise. Rated R for violence and language.

I had no interest in seeing this movie. I actually skipped watching it for about 3 days, until I finally decided I was bored and I had nothing to lose by investing about 90 mins. I'm happy to say my time was not wasted. Anytime I hear a movie is based in a sanatorium - and quite a few horror movies have been - the end result has not been pleasing to me. This movie, however, did a great job with the story. The acting was very good, though I have to admit Mark was really getting on my nerves for about the first 30 minutes. Most of the movie, like other found footage films, is shot with camcorders. Usually, I find that to be an annoying, out of date, and rather obvious sign that the movie is low budget. Some are lower budget than others. I don't know what they spent on this movie, but the special effects were fun and not overdone. As I said, the acting was good. The storyline, while not original, was executed nicely. I don't have anything to complain about with this film. Easily, it's a movie I'll watch again at some point. The end scene was gross, but necessary to keep in step with the story. I gave this a 7-star rating because of all the above. I recommend this to anyone who likes found-footage horror films that are done very well.