Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

WisdomsHammer There are some great scares in this movie that kept me going. Then there were the terrible ones. And the long, drawn-out drama scenes that just didn't work for me. Maybe because they tended to be clichéd scenes that I already knew the ending to that they tried to extend for dramatic effect but fell flat. At the end of one of those scenes, one of the actors was laughing, and I don't think she was acting because it was ridiculous. The premise was okay, but I don't feel like they stuck to it. In the end, you don't know exactly what happened or why. And I didn't even care. It's just not that good. On a side note, as I looked this up, I saw Michael O'Keefe in the cast! I realized, "Oh! It's the kid from Caddyshack!" He didn't do a bad job, but I thought it was funny.

GL84 Hired to debunk a supernatural phenomenon, a group of professional ghost hunters find their latest quarry has taken them to the site of a real demonic being obsessed with seeking revenge against its targets and forces them to try to stop it.While there was enough to like here, this one really turned out to be quite mediocre overall. The main issue here that holds this one down is the fact that there are no real surprises in store here for the duration of the film, offering plenty of routine and rather expected scares here that tend to pop up continuously in this. While much of that has to do with the rather flimsy storyline here that doesn't make much sense about their involvement, we get the usual running footsteps in the hallways despite no one being there, inhuman banging and growling from the other side of the walls, smashing objects with ferocious intensity despite no one being in the room and the flash-bang images of someone running through the frame behind someone not paying attention which tends to cause this one to feel so familiar and routine here as these are all to be expected in these kinds of movies without much deviation to be found in this. It gives the film a wholly familiar feel that this has all been done before numerous times over, especially with the fact that this one goes for the paranormal-investigation-crew storyline about the group coming to a location with supposed activity and finding something far more dangerous than they expected which is such a route and cliché storyline that it really feels as though there's no real surprise or difference from what happens here based on that. As well, the focus on the team in the first half here ends up making the film a little slow-going to get to the haunting scenes as their admittedly-cool set-ups for their equipment and getting it all in working order makes for a rather long time before it shows off the haunting around them, and with the rather familiar scare-attempts here it tends to drag for a while until it gets to the good features. Those good features are mostly found in the later half here as some of these scenes come off really well with the particular highlight being the possessed daughter during the séance where she begins flinging everyone around the room with her glass-eye look and rather chilling raspy voice that begins hinting at a darker secret involved in this one. There's also a rather creepy sequence involving their quest to get to the source of the latest haunting through a hallway filled by supernatural wind-blasts that's quite fun and chilling which manages to keep this one going at a rather freaky pace throughout this part of the film as this is mostly just non-stop haunting scenes without much rest. As well, the fact that it tends to really go quite in-depth with the team's set-up in the beginning as they arrive at the apartment makes for quite a different introduction as actually going through all the different marks here is a nice touch. Overall it's got enough to make it watchable but there's still some pretty big flaws.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, children-in-jeopardy and strong themes of sexual molestation.

Robynne T I love a good movie. I even love the occasional bad movie! I am also enough of a movie buff to be fair when watching a B film, but this film was beyond awful. I can only assume that the makers of Emergo (or Apartment 143 as it was titled on Netflix) decided to try to cash in on the popularity of movies like Paranormal Activity and make their own. They failed in a completely miserable way. What they ended up with was a stinker so bad, that I couldn't wait to inform you all not to waste 85 minutes of your time. A family is having difficulties here. Mom died and Dad appears to be doing the best he can for his two children. The teenage daughter blames him for her mother's death and hates him, and his young son is just a happy little kid that apparently is unaffected by anything. Now strange, paranormal things are happening in the house (ie: slamming doors, windows, moving furniture, etc.), and when Dad moves his family, the paranormal activity follows them to their new house. Now Dad hires a paranormal investigative team to help. Sounds like a movie worth watching if you like that sort of stuff right? Wrong! Here's the bottom line: Plot? Garbage. Premise? Garbage. Acting? Garbage. Dialogue? Garbage. Characters? Unlikable, unbelievable garbage (The "Doctor" tells Dad to relax and do nothing while his daughter is being physically hurt! Yeah the Doc was the worst character of all) Sound Garbled garbage Lighting? Dull garbage. Special Effects? A 6yr old could do better garbage. I'm so glad that if I had to watch this at all, I saw it on Netflix. At least I didn't waste money on a ticket. But I want my time back. I cannot remember the last time I was so disappointed in a movie... and I paid money in a theatre to see the Blair Witch sequel!

jcallows This movie was just an hour and 20 minutes long but it still dragged and felt more like a 3 hour film. It could've definitely been edited down to about 45 minutes but then I guess it wouldn't have been considered a movie.I never saw Paranormal Activity but from what I read, this film was a lot like that. The problem with these types of movies that are shot through security cameras and camcorders is that they leave you feeling disengaged. It's hard to get into a movie when you feel like you're watching it through a peephole. But this movie was just plain dull and the found footage style of filmmaking only made it worse. The cast was fine except for that guy in the suit. What made this film slightly interesting was that it was hinting at the cause of the disturbances in the apartment to a secret held by one of the family members. At first the secret went in one direction but, in the end, the secret was revealed to be something else. Had the secret been what the film had first alluded to, this film would've been a whole lot more interesting. But in the end, it's just a waste of your time.