This has turned out to be really long, sorry. I've tried to keep the paragraphs short.My housemate brought me some DVDs back from a charity shop and I knew I had to watch this one first, having preliminarily checked out a few reviews. I knew I needed to watch it before I ran out of beer and it potentially became unbearable. So at least with the beer, I don't want to hazard an opinion on without it yet, it wasn't entirely unwatchable.I was expecting a completely first-person hand-held thing, and I was a bit confused as to whether it was or not throughout most of the (nicely modest) running time, trying to work out whether a shot was supposed to be third-person or via a security camera or something. The video was apparently 25 fps but it seemed higher.But I came to the conclusion that some of it probably was intended to be third-person - because of sequences I'll go into in a minute and one shot which DID show "Surveillance Cam 16", which suggests the other stationary shots WEREN'T surveillance cams, if you see what I mean. I think part of the confusion stemmed from the general lack of differentiation between the two.The sequences I mentioned exactly a minute ago though were mainly attempted copies of the effects of other films, notably The Ring, which was of course a copy of Ring. And other shots with a bit of post-production work that would have been fairly effective, if derivative, if the rest of the film was presented in a similar way. Other notable digital effects included computer screens that weren't really on but which appeared to be on, but which you, reader, could probably do better given ten minutes in GIMP.Although I found myself not bothering to listen to most of the dialogue after a while, the religious, anti-science thing was weird and I didn't like it. I wouldn't actually have minded it I suppose if it was well-presented and worked in the context of the film, but because of lines like - and this is from a doctor (of something) apparently - "We only use 70% of our brains. We still don't know what the other 30% is for." (70% is even lower than the common fallacy of 90%.)This is followed up by a psychology student saying, "It literally is dormant for all practical purposes ... I mean, there have even been cases where the human brain has been able to project images on to unexposed film, for crying out loud!" My sister just graduated from a psychology degree and she wouldn't say anything like that.Oh and then another doctor (working in "Computer Science R&D", so she'd know) says "There's criss-crossing EM fields all over the earth. It's theorised that when a person walks through one of these EMF cages, it traps the electric impulses firing in their brain, in much the same way as you'd download a file to your home hard drive."Sorry, I'm giving away all the best lines. No no wait, just a couple more:"There's a whole nother world out there. While we're here fighting and killing on this plane, the real battle's out there, you know, between heaven and hell, for our immortal souls." (Nods meaningfully as the camera holds.)And: "One of the bees moved."But the ones more along the lines of "There's no such thing as an inhuman. We've proved/proved (unclear because the actor doesn't enunciate the word too well) it before, and I'll prove it again," where a scientist wouldn't claim to be able to prove the nonexistence of something, just that there wasn't enough evidence to suggest the existence of it...lines like that meant that any religious counterargument was baseless and thus unconvincing.But yeah, bits of it (including in fact the "I can't believe they actually said that, what are they talking about?" moments) were at least entertaining, even funny now and then. Like this bit (last time, I promise):A character at the bottom of some stairs kicks a stair, apparently on purpose, I don't know why (well I do know why, I'm being facetious: he was supposed to have stubbed his toe accidentally), which hurts of course, so he says "Argh, argh," to which the man with the biggest arms (and everyone likes big arms), who's made it successfully to the top of the stairs, replies "Stop being a biiitch. Come on!"And there's a funny possession of a woman.The acting's variable, but a lot of it's like if your friend was in an am-dram production and you enjoyed watching them because you like seeing them doing things that make them happy, and you congratulated them and said they were really good but you were being a bit kind. The cast's a bit bloke-heavy but unfortunately the female actors tended to be some of the least good at the acting thing.The lighting of the sets was pretty stagey too, and what everyone else said about the plinky piano music, they weren't exaggerating, but the more electronic stuff that's largely in the end credits was fine, I would have preferred more of that.Just over an hour into the thing there's what is apparently a helicopter shot, which I thought must be CG, then I thought it wasn't, which was a bit jarring because it presumably cost as much as the rest of the production put together. I mean I grew up on Troma, I have nothing against low production values, but this one didn't seem as self-aware as it needed to be.To its credit, the last minute recalled the end of, for its numerous sins possibly the first one of these films, Cannibal Holocaust.But bottom line, I wouldn't recommend it.

Blake Daniels (Ossie Gibson) is a dying a millionaire who wants to gage the afterlife to see if his many sins will indeed lead him to hell. He hires a TV show called PI for paranormal inspectors who debunk haunting. Their target is a famous West Virginia mental hospital that is closed down. This will be the shows 50th episode and they feel their biggest break yet. Once they arrive they find another group of investigators also hired by Daniels without their knowledge. This second group takes the Christian side of it believing demons are running loose and the two groups clash. The bickering between the two groups just become annoying and in the end the audience doesn't care who is right. Director's Tess & Joe Smalley manage a few ghostly chills and even an unexpected jump scare but they are too few and far between. Some of the apparitions are digital flashes that are just not convincing. The Smalley's must have thought the two group's differences would provide interesting entertainment. They were wrong. As it stands 'Episode 50' is watchable but utterly forgettable.

I love horror films and love finding good low budget ones. I usually give the low budget horror films a chance as some have got really bad ratings, but are actually really good. I was given it for Christmas with a bunch of other horrors, so I was excited to sit down and watch it. However, this is the biggest load of tat I have ever wasted my time watching. The story is rubbish! I found myself getting very confused at all the strange random clips shown which had no point or real explanation or anything to do with the actual story to be honest. It was a really, really BAD film and I'm glad I didn't pay for it. The acting was terrible too. Don't waste your time watching it too.

I confess, I'm a sucker for these types of scary films as others have also said. So it's terrible when 90 minutes is wasted on something that should never have made it out of the college film class it was created in. If this wasn't a college project then someone wasted their money producing it. The acting is cheesy and amateurish, the overall production was not done well and the sound engineering must have been done by some kid they pulled in from the hallway. Normal conversations go from low volume one minute to high volume the next. I had to hold the remote as I was constantly adjusting the sound. The only redeeming thing about this movie is the special effects which were decent for most of the movie....until the end where it inexplicably gets cheesy again. As a college film project I'd give it an A. As a Netflix offering I'd give it a D-.