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Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I can't believe I am being forced to write 10 sentences about this awful piece of crap movie! I seriously would like to know what in the heck the "casting director" was thinking when they cast these "actors" for this film. Now, I am not one to slam another artist, but there is bad acting, then there is just absolutely horrible acting. This production company must have paid these actors in peanuts, because if they got paid, well, then someone got robbed! Now let's move onto the director of this train wreck of a movie. What alternate universe was this person on to think that this was a good movie? I mean, you take a look at a scene or scenes during dailies, and they thought, "oh yeah, this is some good stuff?" The story actually had some potential, but it needed to be tweaked a little. They could have really gored it up on a very cheap budget, but instead, they made it look cheap and like they weren't even trying. I could hardly even watch it because I was tortured by all of the ammeter stuff going on. Some of the scenarios in the movie were even more ridiculous than the acting, if you can believe that. I watch at least two movies a day, and I watch them all the way through, but this one was more torture than most.

Make no mistake, this isn't a great movie. Don't come in with expectations set by the classics, come in with expectations for a B movie, and you'll get that plus a little something extra. Boo does a great job of breaking pace with most horror movies, not taking itself as seriously as better ones, while still having entertaining scenes. More or less, you could say it's a popcorn flick.On it's good side it has a few characters that act decently -Jessie, Freddy, Caitlin, and to a lesser extent Allan, and two characters who play their parts great- Arlo and Nurse Russel. The first four, at least, aren't too terrible, and at best, can make scenes comedic, interesting or simply making them work. The second two are great for different reasons: Arlo being an aging cop with a tendency for great one liners and making otherwise boring scenes hilarious. Nurse Russel plays her part in a quite serious tone, with the twist involving her at the end giving the film more of a purpose in hindsight. Boo also has some few genuinely creepy moments near the start of the film, making use of Dutchess and the abandoned hospital to build some suspense and tension, and a clown scene that won't be kind to Coulrophobic viewers.On it's bad side, the two great characters don't get all too many lines though they make the most of them, the rest of the cast that weren't mentioned tend to sway between average (for a B movie) and slightly below average, and specifically for Kevin so bad it's hard to decide if he's trying to make his character that bad or if it's the actor. The creepy moments of the film unfortunately are mostly found, as said, in the first part of the movie. There's also some notable horror movie logic, though at least no one suggested "I think it might be best if we split up".Overall, this movie can be entertaining and funny if you don't take it too seriously, has some small spots of originality, it's own B movie charm and some of the best one liners to come from a B movie in quite a while.

Boo is set on Halloween as macho man Kevin (Jilon Ghai) & his mate Freddy (Josh Holt) dare two girls Jessie (Trish Coren) & Marie (Nicole Rayburn) to spend the night in an old supposedly haunted mental hospital called the Linda Vista, although not keen at first the two girls eventually agree. What Jessie & Marie don't know is that a third guy named Emmett (Happy Mahaney) has rigged the place with spooky cheap scares but soon finds outs that hospital is haunted anyway. As the four teens turn up & enter the hospital things go from bad to worse as an evil ghost tries to possess them in order to leave the confines the hospital & with all the doors & windows boarded up they are all trapped inside...Written & directed by Anthony C. Ferrante this haunted house ghost film was just about watchable but nothing special, to be honest I will have probably totally forgotten about it by the end of the week. The set-up is pretty typical stuff, a group of teens decide to spend the night in some creepy abandoned place which has various ghost stories surrounding it & find to their cost that the stories were real. At 90 odd minutes it has a reasonable pace although it does drag at times with seemingly endless shots of teens wandering around dark corridors & the story itself just isn't that gripping or satisfying. The narrative is poor with too many random occurrences or things which just aren't explained, how does the ghost of Jacob possess someone? I mean if the teens are there why doesn't he just possess them as soon as his previous body is killed? What's with the random clown with no feet that levitates for a few seconds, changes the expression on it's face mask & then just collapse are bleeding maggots & worms? What were all the flashbacks by Jessie all about? Why was she having vivid flashbacks to moments she couldn't have known anything about? How was her mother involved? Where did those keys she found come from? Why not tell her friends about them? Why does Jacob not want to live in a human body anymore at the end? It's never made clear. Also what's with the black cop who appeared in an in film film? Does that have relevance at all? Why did possessed people explode when shot? To be fair to Boo it's not the worst teen horror film out there but it's far from the best, one or two lines of dialogue are amusing with 'if you shoot me in the face I'll kick your ass' probably the highlight. A bit of a mess really, for every positive Boo has there's a negative.The feel & atmosphere of Boo is alright, the sets are quite moody but just covering everything in shadow does tend to get boring & the lack of any real visuals other than black gets annoying. There's a bit of gore & pleasingly the CGI computer effects are kept to a minimum with the majority of the gore achieved with practical on-set effect, there's a skinned dog whose head is blown off, a few exploding people, some decent skin melting effects, a melted hand & decent amounts of blood splatter. There's some blatant horror film rip-offs going on here with an opening sequence that is a mix between Halloween (1978) & Scream (1996) while the film after feels like a cross between House on Haunted Hill (1999) & The Grudge (2004).Apparently shot at the end of 2003 this wasn't released anywhere until mid 2006 which is no great surprise. Actress Dee Wallace has a small cameo while the rest of the cast are pretty poor.Boo is not I film that I thought was particularly good, it has a few moments I suppose but the messy script & poor narrative along with an all too familiar feel means I can't even describe Boo as mediocre, it's slightly below average but having said that it's not the worst film out there it's just that it's nowhere near the best either.

These days I can't watch a ghost movie without picking it apart for how paranormally accurate it is. This movie starts out almost believable, but then it ends up as sort of a rehash of "Night of the Demons" with ingredients of "The Evil Dead" and "House on Haunted Hill." The story is about a haunted location used as the site of a Halloween get-together; it's supposed to be haunted and when it turns out its true, a plot device is contrived to keep them inside. That is where the whole plot becomes unbelievable. It has an uneven plot, dragging down for scenes of character exposition. One girl's psychic visions of the hospital's past also breaks up the more linear flow of the movie which does have several legitimate scares, and moments that only happen in bad horror movies. The most interesting character is the cop, a former actor from the Seventies, but the location too, an actual haunted location, provides a lot of presence. It alone could have carried the movie, but the main ghost, wasted in a lot of body-jumping nonsense, isn't that menacing. There's a lot of needless gore and some shaky foreboding, but it also seems to be its own sequel: one of the characters going in does so looking for his sister who vanished within. Overall, it's a good movie, but not a great one. A lot of creative energy went into this movie, but it's constructed in such a way that makes it hard to follow.