Reviews: Reel Evil (2012) Movie Review
Genres: Horror
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This in-depth review of Reel Evil (2012) explores its story, characters, and scares in detail, offering insights for every horror fan.
Reel Evil (2012) revolves around a young team of struggling filmmakers hired to shoot a documentary in an abandoned asylum. Kennedy (Jessica Morris - Role Models (2008), One Life to Live (1968), Bloody Murder (2000), In Search of America, Inshallah (2014)), Cory and James decide to meet and tell a producer about their idea for a documentary. I was rolling my eyes when I heard the words "abandoned insane asylum" because the concept has been seen soo many times, and there can be nothing good coming from found footage film of that sort. They met a character with facial warts and a former asylum resident - creepy, well, not really. They finally met the director and cast members, who gave them strange vibes leading the crew to make their documentary and not what they were paid to do. Cory (Kaiwi Lyman - Suite 101 (2016), Pearl (2012), Red Fish Blue Fish (2016)), Kennedy, and James wander further into the asylum. James (Jeffrey Adler - Simple Being (2014), Babysitter’s Black Book (2015), Stepping Out (2013)) and his crew began experiencing strange things as they went deeper and deeper into the asylum. The group started to think that maybe the bizarre happenings were not real and might be a prank.
Reel Evil is American-found footage (fake documentary) horror movie that Danny Draven (Ghost Month (2009), Deathbed (2002), Hell Asylum (2002), Dark Walker (2003)) directed. I gave this movie a two because of an effort to build the suspense slowly throughout the scenes, which gave me hope that something big was about to come, but that never happened. The movie also receives a two because the three lead actors did a fabulous job with their roles. Reel Evil was a little predictable were the supporting cast did a terrible job with their roles. Every other aspect of this movie was awful, including the makeup, cinematography, screenplay, director, editing department, etc.
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- Reel Evil Rating Scores
- Our Score: 2/10
- Overall Score: 2.98/10
- IMDB: 3.5/10
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