WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

TdSmth5 A guy is picknicking with his girlfriend when he has a vision of being in the middle of a ritual with a book, pentagrams, candles, and his naked girlfriend attacks him with a knife. He gets the upper hand and kills her. Then he wakes up right before surgery. They are going to operate on his brain. He tries to resists but gives in. He wakes up in the recovery room. The Dr. tells him years have passed and he's going to transfer him to The House Of Love to complete his recovery. There he meets some more patients- a guy who talks through a handpuppet, a slutty girl, a friendly guy who sometimes is too friendly. But our guy keeps having visions and starts getting suspicious about the House of Love. The Dr. in the meantime watches everything that happens there in a room full of screens and has invited another Dr. to watch and to discuss the case. They discuss implants...and the book.Our hero discovers in the attic a chest, that is somehow connected to him. And inside he finds a passage to a basement that looks like the scene of the ritual. And he finds the book. He also thinks that he is being manipulated and that everyone is part of some elaborate hoax. He keeps having visions of the girlfriend. The friendly guy goes nuts and starts killing people. While the guy continues to search for answers.The Attic Expedition is a confusing movie that doesn't explain itself or give an answer. One can read here on IMDb a variety of interpretations that all sounds plausible. It's also a very low budget movie that occasionally looks pretty good. It's not much of a horror movie more of a mystery thriller. Unfortunately, for it to work it would have to have been more involving or interesting. Since it isn't I didn't care to look for hints or try to figure it all out. And when the story doesn't want to reveal itself either, what's the point? I guess there wasn't a solid story to begin with, just scenes, and lines that our minds are then inclined to try to put together. The set of the House of Love is unfortunately distractingly cheap, perhaps on purpose? But a lot is made about how this movie was done with barely a budget. So one doesn't even know if the shortcomings are just a matter of the story or of necessity. If you like a puzzle then perhaps this is something that might interest you.

MBunge This is a movie that really makes you wonder about the casting process. Not that it doesn't have quite a few other flaws, but it's obvious that it could have been a lot better if they had just switched some of the actors around.Trevor Blackburn (Andras Jones) is a man who doesn't know what's real and what isn't. He remembers having a picnic with Faith (Beth Bates), the woman he loves. But he also remembers her trying to kill him in some sort of magical ceremony. He wakes up from a coma in a private sanitarium, only to be told by Dr. Ek (Jeffrey Combs) that he killed Faith and was in that coma for 4 years. But he also seems to remember Dr. Ek performing some kind of brain surgery on him. Trevor gets sent to the House of Love, sort of a halfway house for the mentally disturbed, where he starts having dreams about a trunk in the attic with a spiral staircase inside it. That's when we find out that Dr. Ek has cameras throughout the House of Love and everyone else there besides Trevor is an actor playing a role. Dr. Ek is looking for a mysterious book, the same book Faith was using in that magical ceremony. Oh, and it turns out that while Faith is dead, that hasn't crimped her style as much as you might expect.This is one of those movies where reality is more of a multiple choice thing. Is the House of Love real? Is Trevor actually an outpatient with a head of hair or is he a bald, muttering nutjob still wearing a straight jacket? Is the stuff that happens up in the attic real, is it all in Trevor's mind or is there something supernatural going on? Is Dr. Ek really running an elaborate experiment on Trevor because he's desperate to get a magical book, or is it all just a dream taking place during brain surgery? You can never be sure because the movie is never sure. It reverses itself and contradicts itself and sometimes just makes no sense at all. The filmmakers could have taken a lot of the scenes in this movie, switched them around, and it wouldn't really have made much difference.For all that, it is a rather engaging story until you figure out it doesn't make any sense. There are a few good scares and some decent female nudity and it's not very self-important, so the bad stuff in it is more silly and campy than insultingly stupid.What really lets the film down, however, is very poor casting. Jeffrey Combs is melodramatic but perfectly fine and the evil Dr. Ek. Seth Green, playing another mental patient/actor, doesn't quite have the chops to create a real character but has enough personality to keep from really sucking. Ted Raimi turns in a professional performance as a doctor who comes to question Ek's methods. Beth Bates even does a credible job as Faith, which is saying something given that she spends just as much time naked as she does clothed. But the main character in the movie is Trevor, played by Andras Jones. Putting it as gently as possible, Andras Jones is a brick. He can say the lines, but that's about as far as his "acting" seems to extend. His struggle with sanity and reality is at the heart of the film but you can't feel anything from his performance, which is flatter than a pancake after it's been run over by a tank.I'm not sure how good this movie could have ever been, but if they'd just switched the actors around it could have been a lot better. If Combs or Green had been playing the main character, it's so obvious they would have brought a lot more to the story. Considering they're both also more famous than Andras Jones, it doesn't make any sense to place them in supporting roles and let a movie live or die on the back of a guy who no one has heard of and doesn't appear to be able to actually act. Heck, Alice Cooper has a bit part in the film and even he'd probably do a better job and be a better choice for the main character.There's enough in The Attic Expeditions that you can see how the filmmakers and the actors thought this might be a worthwhile story to tell. But the casting director screwed them and the audience out of whatever that story might have been.

drumberforever Wow! This is one of the best movies I've ever seen! Beth Bates is amazing, and absolutely stunning!She is by far one of the most talented actresses I have ever seen. Though I have seen her in many other things besides this. She is extremely beautiful. Seth Green is also great, as he is in every movie he has been in. I would definitely recommend taking a look at this movie. This movie will freak you out. It is very scary, and will definitely make you question reality. Though this is a "low budget" film. The director does such a good job, that you can not even tell. This is definitely a great cult film...and if you like getting scared,i would definitely recommend seeing this movie

movieman_kev Trevor (Andras Jones from Nightmare on Elm Street 4 and Sorority babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama) kills his girlfriend and is sentenced to a stay in the half way house for loons by Dr. Elk (genre staple Jeffrey Combs). But things are not nearly what they seem. I wanted to like this I really did, and to it's merit it did start off rather well, but as it went on it became a casualty of too many twists spoiling the stew. The ending is anti-climatic as well and left me thinking "Is that it???" I read that this is a 'thinking persons' horror film. I'm sorry but that's pretty laughable as anyone with half a brain could follow it. Mindfu@k movies can be good, when they have a point to them (ie. Fight Club, the Twin peaks series) But this isn't one of those.And Seth Green isn't really the best actor in the world to put it diplomatically.My Grade: C- DVD Extras: both widescreen and fullscreen versions; behind the scenes featurette; and Theatrical trailer Eye Candy: Beth Bates shows everything, Shannon Cleary goes full frontal