The St. Francisville Experiment

2000 "Everything you've heard is true."
3.9| 1h19m| PG-13| en
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Four non-actors, with no script, lock themselves in a haunted Louisiana plantation home overnight to film what takes places. The Lalaurie plantation, site of grisly murders, comes alive before their camera lens and they experience a night more terrifying and incredible than they imagined.

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BlazeLime Strong and Moving!
Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
michael-golvach This movie's lead-up was pretty decent. I stopped even wondering if it would be scary after the section where the four student "ghost hunters" talk on camera about why they're qualified to investigate a haunted house. That's not the part that stopped me. The part that stopped me was when the four "qualified" individuals all broke down and started throwing panic fits after being in the house for less then five minutes when a poorly attached chandelier falls on the ground when they try to turn on the lights in that room and short the connection. They displayed the same lack of qualification throughout the movie. That being said, the movie was entertaining enough that I finished watching it. There are some clever points in the story and the acting was pretty good for low-budget.
loomis78-815-989034 After a boring prologue setting up the story, a group of 4 researchers armed with cameras enter a haunted New Orleans mansion in search of ghosts. After many scenes of them walking around saying how cold spots are and pulling stupid pranks on each other, a few creepy moments are introduced. They find what looks like a baby at first that they found in a hole only to find it is a doll. A chair in the attic provides a jump scare and there are dashes of atmosphere. One of the first "Blair Witch Project" rip offs to come along, the film comes off too hokey to be taken for real at any point of its running time. Director Ted Nicolaou delivers a few chills and creeps in the final 10 minutes that are intense but the characters aren't believable enough to make the entire picture worth seeing.
ManBehindTheMask63 This movie does what most movies can't do anymore...scare you. The film focuses on 4 people armed with video cameras who spend a night exploring a haunted house in Lousianna. The film is full atmosphere and tension and the first person camera view works well. The acting is solid and you truly believe the events that are happening are real and the actors emotions are true reactions. The film uses many of the old ghost movie tricks and you will definitely jump out of your seat. The last 15 minutes are very creepy and intense and you will remain frozen in fear after the film ends. Not many movies can spook you out these day, but this one got me pretty good. Yeah, it's a Blair witch ripoff, but it's used way more effectively here and the characters are much more believable and likable. A solid ghost film that i recommend you watch alone in the dark.
harfordamanda I think people when they first saw it actually believed this was real and then became VERY ticked off that it was a fake. I'm not gonna lie, i believed it until I saw Madison on some dating show on TLC but I still put this movie in my favorites pile plus most of my friends refuse to watch it b/c it scared them so much. The story is very simple: a group of people get together and spend the night in a haunted house and document what they find. The history to the haunting in parts is real and then others are doctored up a little or taken from other stories but that isn't the part I think that turns people off about this movie, I really believe it's the evidence and the topic of ghosts in general. It's a 50/50 split between pure skepticism and absolutely belief which makes the investigation and the outcome so unrealistic. Towards the end it becomes a block of pure cheese. from Paul finding the arm in the attic to Madison being attacked and how can you forget Ryan being sucked through the floor. As for the rest of the film it's funny at times ( "it's for science!") and scary (the chair in the attic kicked so much butt "go sit in that chair, let it know who's the dominate being." ) and gives the audience i think exactly what they asked for.