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2012-05-16 22:16:10

I wanted to like it, but...

As a low budget indie film-maker myself, I have gained a greater appreciation for what it takes to put a movie together, all the difficulties and challenges, and the amount of time & effort required from all involved. Even movies that are not very good are somewhat of an accomplishment. That having been said, this movie sucked. What could have been a promising concept turned out to be a boring film that lacked energy and imagination.The sad thing is, that it would have taken only a few changes to make this a better film (or at least more interesting). The writing was just so poor, and the casting of the male leads can only be explained by nepotism (which isn't always a bad thing; sometimes it's the best or only way circumstances will permit). I rented this film, thinking it would be a scary Jumanji-type premise, (and hoping to see some naked women, since they were all fairly attractive). I appreciate the effort and accomplishment it took to make this movie, but I cannot recommend it.

steve-2746 2012-05-16 04:26:12

Just plain awful!

I have seen 1000's of films from bad to great, and this one barelyranks as watchable.The story has already been given by a poster, so no need for that. Thewife and I sat down to watch this one with hopes. After 15 minutes weknew it was bad. We would have turned it off then, but we had hopes itwould get better.After 40 minutes into I was wanting to pull my hair out. We knew atthis time we just had to get through it. After this awful thing finallyplayed out, I actually took the DVD out and smashed it with a hammer.The only movie I have ever done that to.I feel for anyone who sits through this entire thing!

2012-05-16 13:54:33

Enjoyable - keeps you guessing

Ghost Game is a very enjoyable movie. It has suspense and kept me guessing what was going to happen next, unlike alot of horror movies where one can pretty much figure out what's going to happen next. The effects and music were great.

eso209 2012-05-16 03:33:46

Ben Oren Is A GENIUS

Ben Oren is a literary Genius when it comes to this movie. I amsurprised he is not famous yet. and i am serious. though ghost games isnot the scariest movie it is one of the smartest indie movies i haveseen and has a smart sense of humor. Though many people may not get themovie i believe the plot is funny and there are so many key quotes fromthe movie that i share with my friends. all in all i would love to seea Ben Oren movie on the big screen. I believe that he will succeed andthough many people did not love this movie on the budget it was made ithink it is wonderful. I can not wait to see what else this up andcoming writer has to offer. If huge studios are putting out movies likeGrandma's Boy and She's the Man i believe this educated young writerwill do big things.

2012-05-06 06:50:20

SHOT ON VIDEO JUNK

Not absolutely horrible but not much above. Ghost Game at least gets a "C" for a concept that brings its overall rating to two stars rather than just one. A group of friends decides to take a camping trip to an old cabin in the middle of nowhere ala so many 1980's slasher films. Once there they find an old game and decide to play. Through the course of the game they release the spirits of three witches who died while performing some kind of ceremony or spell years earlier. Soon they begin killing the campers and the group realizes they have to keep playing the game to try and save themselves. It's not a bad concept but unfortunately there was nothing behind the production to make it rise above others in the Z budget field. Films shot on video just plain suck and there is no way around it. It just looks plain amateurish no matter how good the actors may be. Not to say the actors were good...but they were not horrible. They were handcuffed by poor scripting. It's the usual horror movie stereotypical roles. The women in the film are reasonably attractive as cheap films go and several of them do have numerous TV credits in their background so it's not like they were just found on the street. I'll chalk this one up to the director as there was an OK concept but there was no sense of pacing or tension built up. Could have been better with a defter hand directing.

qtakhisis 2012-05-05 20:13:59

worth a rent, not a movie ticket

I think if this movie had a bigger budget, it would have been reallygreat. The concept is good, the acting and shooting is typical "B"rated movie, its better than most low budget movies, and would be anamazing blockbuster with the right people. Worth the rent, if you haveone of those pay by the month things, instead of individual movieprices. FYI - My "8 of 10" is with the knowledge that it is a ratingfor a B movie. I think the good witch looks amazingly like Ali Larter,but I can't confirm that, and they take death in real stride. Theacting was totally unrealistic. Its very Blair witch, and there is atime loop kind of thing happening. You wonder who "athena" is, and whyshe is important. It needed more story. It did not actually show anypeople really doing anything, which was very Alfred Hitchcockian of thedirector.

ksmart73 2012-04-29 14:17:48

The only victims you'll care about in this movie are the audience members who decided to watch it!

Plot: Sort of creative, but with huge amounts of holes and illogicalanswers. The back story is presented in a way that is confusing andthat makes no sense what so ever. The movie starts; a fogged up cameralens was used to shoot the first sequence that follows three Gothic-porn-star-looking actresses as they cross a river in a canoe presumablyat midnight. Then, suddenly it skips to day light and you see a man ina hoodie sweatshirt trotting along the riverbank like bigfoot. ANDTHEN: "30 years later." That's it? What even happened? Perhaps the director was trying to gofor a pattern with no continuity, made famous by QuentinTarantino--HOWEVER this director does not master it the way Tarantinodid! The actors present no reason for the audience to grow attached to them.They are all the predictable "jocky/drug abusing/horny" (and overused)college graduate characters. How they all managed to graduate collegeis a mystery that is much more intriguing than the mystery of the GHOSTGAME. Using the warning from the movie, "Whatever you do..." DON'T WATCH THISMOVIE!

2012-04-29 01:39:14

Dreary, terrible

I can't believe people gave this terrible movie 4 or 5 stars. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The acting is terrible and the story isn't much better. The grainy, shot-on-video look gives it a "Blair Witch Project" feel...but even that couldn't redeem it. Oh, and forget the cover - you don't get any special effects like that in the movie.As far as plot goes, it involves a group of kids who go to a cabin and open up a game, which essentially brings the ghosts of 3 witches back to kill them one by one if they don't understand and complete the game.Don't bother with this one - you'll thank me for it later!

2012-04-23 06:59:51

Do you like bad horror movies?

As someone who enjoys bad horror movies, this was pretty good. That's why it gets 3 stars.There aren't many redeeming qualities to this movie, if you're actually looking for something truly frightening to watch.The social interaction is either completely unrealistic, or these characters are horrible people. They're upset about death for maybe five seconds, then perfectly willing to run around in the woods pursuing the supernatural and joking about death with one another.The dialog is awkward and unnatural.The girls are gorgeous... I assume the guys are friends of the people who made it. They're not ugly, but they're quite average. I don't think anyone was selected particularly for their talent.It would be awesome to be in a movie like this, though. It looks like fun.

2012-04-22 11:47:17

it kept my attention

Well, this is obviously an extremely low budget movie. But I have to say that the dialogue and the characters in the beginning kept my attention long enough for me to get into the plot of the movie (which is more than I can say for the three B-movies we shut off about 5 minutes into them before we got to this one). It's a 20 something's in the woods with a supernatural killer on the lose movie, so you know the story already. However every time my wife and I said "You know this is what is going to happen" and thought we had it figured out we were surprised with a little twist, not a plot twist but just that these guys didn't follow the exact same formula as every other movie of this genre. Up until the very end we kept saying "This is what is going to have to happen, it's what always happens" and then we would be wrong. I mean this was written acted and produced well enough that I watched it all the way until the end to see what was going to happen, which is more than I can say for a lot of multi-million dollar produced movies that I have shut off halfway through.

2012-04-22 01:02:23

GHOST GAME DVD REVIEW 1/5

This movie actually had potential (in the beginning) for a mediocre straight-to-DVD horror film. However, too much bad acting was present throughout most of the movie and the screenplay was brainless. Only watch this movie if you have nothing else to do. Overall, it's not really bad, there are a number of films far more insufficient than this.

2012-04-21 07:38:57

An odd sort of gem.

First of all this is not everyone's cup of tea. But it has a certain kinda of strange charm to it. As far as B-movies go this one was decent. Pretty much everything was subpar. But it works nicely for this film. There are no apologies here, the creators of this film knew what they were making and went for it. Not a whole lot of gore here, which was smart (I just don't think this movie could have carried it well). Not a lot of thinking either though. All in all it was just fun. I wish that I could explain this one better but words are simply failing me. I have no idea why I enjoyed this movie. I just did. You can see that in my ratings. I know this is C material at best. However, I simply felt compelled to give it an overall B+. Go figure. Maybe there's something to all these spells.So in conclusion I would recommend a rental for this one. Just don't expect Macbeth, Sixth Sense,or even Army of Darkness. Again this is a B-movie. If ya like that kinda thing give it a shot.

2012-04-19 11:14:53

Thoughtless pap

This review is from: Ghost Game (Amazon Instant Video) Even a lover of horror films will find it hard to get jiggy with the horrible production values, the mysogyny, poor casting, chauvinism, and directorial idiocy of this movie. The witches, alone, are worth dropping this one in the garbage bin. Strictly for people who think "Elimidate" is a cool show.

2012-04-18 23:36:40

Entertaining!!!

This movie is great for a weekend with your friends in the same genre as Friday the 13th or Halloween. Great fun and entertaining!

2012-04-17 00:10:17

So So

This was your basic run of the mill movie. Nothing special. Could have been worse

2012-04-16 05:28:38

3 Skanks In Goth Glitter Makeup As Witch Ghosts Who Kill

(see review title) Do NOT inspire terror. If anything, I kept waiting for one of the poor chicks running around in this movie to hold them down and do their make-up and hair. SO not scary, scattered and fragmented storyline. It is kinda like a ripoff of MOTEL HELL.Deranged/Motel Hell (Midnite Movies Double Feature) Problem?? Motel Hell was better if you can imagine that. It is available here as a double and even triple feature or for immediate watching on instant video. The ending of this movie is a direct rip off of Motel Hell. Oh Lord I want my hour back. Save your time, avoid this as even the babes cannot save this movie. The blonde was the only good actress in it and she DIES.

Kupotek 2012-04-12 11:15:17

Low budget Fun

Jumanji gone terribly wrong! Ohnoes!Go into this movie expecting a low budget, but hopefully creative film.Dialog's pretty funny and original. The acting is primarily very bad,but that's okay.The male actors are in fact so horrible that they cannot even stay incharacter or hold on to a believable emotion structure for even a fewseconds. The girls seem more believable overall.The characters are fun, the dialog is funny, sometimes so bad its fun.I really liked the sundial concept that was pretty cool, more like amoon dial, or egg timer for the dark wiccans of doom! AHH!!!"I thought he was taking me to a spa..." That chick's death was prettysweet.The movie was very low budget, we knew that, but at least it keeps youwondering what it's all about, which is more then I can say for a lotof other horror movies, which made this movie at least enjoyable.Sadly I think the people who rated this so low did so unforgiving oflow budget movies. yes some of the plot and character cohesion wasreally bad. But conceptually, effect wise, music wise, honesty wise, itwas pretty fun and kept me wanting to know what the hell was going tohappen.

2012-04-12 01:26:08

THE GAMES AFOOT

To GHOST GAME's credit, I didn't cut it off; it entertained me enough to make me stay with it. BUT..what a lame movie. A plot that makes little or if any sense; actors whose talents are minimal; and sloppy direction and editing. Three witches back in the mid-seventies were killed during some kind of ritual, but we're not really sure what, and even though by the end of the film, we "kinda" figure out who killed them, it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Then we have the typical group of college students (none who look under the age of 30) who for whatever reason decide to go spend a weekend at this camp where the witches died, and lo and behold, they find some kind of weird game which releases the witches and spells doom for the cast. There aren't a whole lot of scares and the pacing isn't quick enough to generate any suspense, but there are a lot worse movies out there, so fans of this type of occult thriller may find themselves mildly diverted.

2012-04-11 06:57:13

Mediocre supernatural slasher.

Ghost Game (Joe Knee, 2004)Mediocre supernatural horror flick about a bunch of young-and-beautifuls stuck on an island with some malevolent spirits. No breaking of traditions here-- the plot is stock, the conventions of the horror film are all out in spades, we get the obligatory twist ending, etc. The movie does have one redeeming feature in that it does manage to be funny every now and again, but the humor can't carry the storyline by itself. This is, after all, supposed to be a horror film (and if it were supposed to be more comedy than horror, there's not enough of the comedy angle). Technically, it's decent, though I wonder how hard it is to shoot when most of the movie takes place in the dark. (Though from some of the horribly-lit movies I've seen recently, I think it may be more difficult than I assumed it was.) Acting is a cut below average, but at least everyone seems to have been having a good time with the ludicrous script. Maybe worth it when you've got a sixpack and a free evening in front of you, but not one to go out of your way for. **

2012-04-11 03:45:35

CRAP!!!

This movie was CRAP!! I scratched the screen on my laptop, sniffed and smelled CRAP!!! Oh well, another poor "PRIME" movie!! You get what you pay for...