Tag: Grave Encounters

Grave Encounters Recycles Found-Footage Scares with Decent Results

August 30, 2023.Reading time 7 minutes.

Amidst the found-footage craze of late aughts and early 2010s, Canadian thriller Grave Encounters carved out a small niche for itself. Following the success of The Blair Witch Project, the Paranormal Activity series proved that the found-footage format was cheap to produce with a huge potential box office upside. For its part, Grave Encounters gain […]

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Eloise: A Ghost Story That Never Fully ‘Commits’ To Its Setting

November 27, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Horror movies love to throw around the ‘based on a true story’ proclamation regardless of how much truth is present. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that there was in fact a psychiatric facility named Eloise that operated from the early 1800’s to the 1980’s. Aside from its setting and location, direct-to-video thriller Eloise […]

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