The Desmond - the building's pleasant sounding name hides a troubled past. The high rise has a long history of fires, murders, madness and even colonial era genocide upon the site. The towering building has stood empty for the better part of a century and even squatters dare not enter it's fortress like walls. But now Johnny Craig, the host of the popular TV paranormal investigation show 'America's Most Haunted' is planning to do a prime-time special from inside The Desmond. With no known way in, or out, Craig has contacted a group of urban explorers to help him and his film crew enter the building. But when Craig and his team set foot inside The Desmond the events that caused the building to be abandoned in the first place begin to repeat.
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Never mind that the premise of a building defending itself is both corny and cliché, this particular movie manages to wreck any kind of semblance to decent film-making. It defies all logic in such terrible way that it's not even funny laughing at it. Practically every overused gimmicks in horror is rehearsed and in so much worse way than even the most mediocre films.This is definitely the lamest case of recorded breaking and entering. The cast is large, yet none of them is actually likable. Everyone seems very obnoxious, even the characters meant to be sympathetic. The entirety of the movie is basically one stupid patrol of this supposed grim building, filmed by the familiar shaky cam and needless found footage antic. Its structure is so flawed audience can shuffle the scenes and it would barely matter since there's little continuity.Worse yet, it tends to be comedic much more than it is terrifying, which for a horror is has none. The victims die in such agonizingly silly ways, and coupled with extremely bad acting, it's the shallowest attempt at horror in probably this decade. People would cross their eyes as though they are in pro wrestling, make stupid faces and roll around like they are impaired by epilepsy as substitute for fright.It'd be funny to see these people die like in bad high school drama, but it only ends up being pitiful.
A movie made by some really amateur guy, played by a dozen amateur ugly young people, watching it is losing time. No one of the people in this movie is an actress and they never will be one. A movie made by some really amateur guy, played by a dozen amateur ugly young people, watching it is losing time. No one of the people in this movie is an actress and they never will be one. A movie made by some really amateur guy, played by a dozen amateur ugly young people, watching it is losing time. No one of the people in this movie is an actress and they never will be one. A movie made by some really amateur guy, played by a dozen amateur ugly young people, watching it is losing time. No one of the people in this movie is an actress and they never will be one.
Overused! Cheap! Classic horror moves! No surprises!It sure was a bad building, in a bad story, provided by a bad script, directed bad and acted the same. Some actors did better than others, probably those who believed they will make it big eventually and this is their rock bottom start. The extremely small budget made a huge impact sadly, I've seen better camera work and CGI in the 80s movies, the dialogue was as cheesy as possible and the ending surely did not help.It was just another horror for me, nothing more. I love this genre, I watch underground such productions in order to put a honest, of course, personal review on IMDb and help out, either warn about the movie, or recommend it. This one is definitely a pass!Bad Building trapped inside a bad movie. So don't make a bad night out of it!Cheers!
Over acting, under acting, stock characters and a story line written by a ZX81. I have heard of some of the cast but no-non stands out.You have seen it all done before a lot better but not much worse. Just pick out any abandoned building movie (like Mirrors) and it will be better than this.I always like to say which bits were bad and which bits were OK but I seriously cant think of anything I like. Around about the hour mark I started to lose any interest in this film but stayed doggedly on until the inevitable conclusion. Around Christmas seems to be the 'Release the Golden Raspberries' time and this is one of them.Sorry about the very short review but it is far harder reviewing a bad film than a good one.End of line.