Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Did you people see the same film I saw?

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Aaron; the Goldfield Hotel really does sit on the I95 approx 170 miles north of Vegas. I know this for a fact because I lived in Goldfield for 4 years and spent a lot of time at the hotel.I watched this movie because it was based on the Goldfield Hotel, however none of the interior was filmed there. It was filmed entirely inside the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, 26 miles away. It was much more fun watching the background, trying to see my old house, reminiscing with friends who I used to hang around the Mizpah with. I actually lived in room 109 of the Mizpah for a while(not the one on film, that was another part of the hotel). There are other discrepancies just with the location that it made it fun to watch.If you are from the Tonopah/Goldfield area you should watch this! Most people are not from here and would not enjoy any part of this movie. The acting was terrible, the script was full of crap that no one actually says, the story was slow, you wait and wait for something to happen, ANYTHING to happen that I'd be surprised if you were still watching when they finally do something during the crappy last 5 minutes of this crappy film.

I don't watch a horror movie looking for perfection. I look for a decent story that isn't screwed up by the actors or production staff. Unfortunately, pretty much everything that could have been done wrong in this film was.First, lets talk about the group of five documenting hauntings in the abandoned hotel. Only three of the five were actually doing so. The two remaining hangers-on were the stock obnoxious boyfriend and slutty girlfriend - both of whom were so obviously ill-matched with their partners that it trumped all suspension of disbelief. There was simply no way either of the documentarians would have been going out with either of their mates.Second, lets talk about shooting day for night. This is when a film is shot in daylight but manipulated to make it appear that the scenes were shot at night. At the very darkest it appears that the events in this movie occurred at around dusk. During other interior shots throughout the film it was clearly daylight outside because - duh - you could see the daylight through the windows. I don't believe a single exterior shot was actually filmed at night, and sometimes within the same scene the lighting would change from more red to more blue. The characters also inexplicably kept returning to what seems to be the basement of the hotel, which not only seemed to be a bit more haunted than the rest of the place, but also generally had daylight streaming down into it.Third, how about doing at least a LITTLE research for minor points? This Nevada hotel was, to paraphrase, "one of the grandest hotels between Chicago and San Francisco. Now it sits abandoned off I-95." Can anyone tell me what is wrong with that sentence? Exactly! I-95 runs north-south from Maine to Florida. Would it really have taken more than 20 seconds to find a genuine interstate or state highway along which to place this hotel? Fourth, the ending is never explained and the viewer is left not really knowing why it ended as it did. I know this is often a device used by inferior film-makers to deflect criticism by reflecting it back to how stupid the viewer must be to not understand the film. Viewers too often fall into this trap, and sometimes with good reason. In this case, however, the nonsensical ending is yet another symptom of a horrible movie - not the viewer's inability to follow a story.Even when looking for a low-budget horror flick to pass an October evening, avoid this one.

It's like a really bad episode of the Twilight Zone (and I'm a fan of the series). Do not watch it. It's really not worth your time.When the movie starts, you may even believe something good may happen later, only to fight your frustration against the bad direction, acting and special effects.The idea is OK, a ghost story based on a haunted hotel on a ghost town in the middle of nowhere. The hotel even looks nice when you first see it. Thanks to an awful series of bad dialogues and an unexplained connection between the characters in the movie which remains unexplained even after the movie is finished, you will regret having wasted your time watching it.Honestly, I love horror movies, but this one is not even scary... If you have a limited amount of time to watch movies and like to enjoy them, this one shall not be one of your choice.

The plot of this movie is the basic haunted house scenario. However it suffers from bad direction, a bad script, bad acting and bad special effects. The cast is relatively small and I only recognised two of them, Roddy Piper (They Live) and Marnette Patterson (Kaley Cuoco's sister in Charmed). Marnette can act and in my opinion is the only person in the movie who can. I would go into more detail but i wasted enough time watching the movie itself so I'm not going to waste any more. This should be a 1 star rating but unfortunately and unbelievably I have seen worse movies than this, therefore I have to save the 1's for them.