Paranormal Asylum: The Revenge of Typhoid Mary

2013
2.4| 1h28m| en
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Filmmaker friends Mark and Andy investigate the legend of Typhoid Mary, a girl who was locked up in an insane asylum that was believed to be haunted. But bad things start to happen after Andy's fiancée conducts a séance to summon Mary's spirit.

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Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life
Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
tessaashe The very first hint that this movie is not up to par is in the summary. The legend of Typhoid Mary is so easy to find any modern seven-year-old could look it up. Early on in the film, they make up a new, special story for Typhoid Mary that has only three points in common with the original story: Typhoid Mary worked as a cook, the approximate time line, and the fact she was an immigrant. I remember learning this story in grade school, so hearing the new and not so improved story was jarring. Then, near the end, they randomly change the time line.The dialog is, at best, awkward, and the characters are uniformly stupid in different ways. The leading male waffles between believing and not believing in ghosts, even in the last few scenes of the movie.The absolute best part of the movie is that it takes the best parts of found footage films and mixes it with asides from a non-shaky-camera perspective. The absolute worst part? It feels disjointed and lacks an element of fear. The scariest scene, aside from the very end, is watching the vegan eat meat.If you like movies based on actual legends, don't watch. If you like films set in asylums, don't watch. If you like ghost stories, watch with caution.
Maria Fahlsing This movie suffers from many problems:1) Plot holes large enough to drive a truck through. 2) Horrible acting. 3) Bad cinematography. 4) Lame script writing. 5) Confusing, convoluted plot line. 6) Flat, moronic characters that we never get emotionally invested in, because we are never given a reason to care about them. 7) Continuity problems. 8) Bad, boring soundtrack. 9) Boring story that is never fully explained.There is more I would complain about, but I don't want to waste any more time on this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad direct-to-Netflix release.
kmtackett I wanted this to be so good. The concept was good and it's a subject that should be explored and played with.Why was there an Instagram-ish filter on it? It had a black cloudy filter that made me feel like my eyesight was clouded. Very uncomfortable.Acting wasn't very good but some scenes were filmed beautifully. I think there was a mistake too. When Mark met Evelyn she said she had some files he could look at if he didn't mind a dirty basement. Then when they were down there, she said "I'll be downstairs" as if they were in the attic.The effects were super cheesy. The cutting-out static effect they put on things was kind of lame.
jmbwithcats First sign this movie is going to be terrible... two guys go out to an old ruined home in the woods, one guy sees an old lady, the first guy says, why are you freaking out about old ladies? Second guy doesn't point out the fact that she doesn't exist? lol... The writing is just that bad... and that's the very first scene, so I have my trusty popcorn and my kitty cat, but it looks like this one is going to be really bad. I love horror films, paranormal films that take place in an asylum so I gave it a shot, I don't mind independent movies, amateur actors, if the story is really good. I was interested in the story being told here, but the problems are many.The script is not very well written, the scenes are poorly utilized, such as when a guy goes to see archives, he doesn't seem to find anything and the whole scene comes off as worthless, adding no depth or tension or reason to the film.Something begins to happen but then just cuts and it's over and no one's that impressed or surprised, which makes no sense. Poorly written characters throughout.No one has any chemistry, the friendship, the girlfriend? No one has any believable connection or emotion to the relationships they're supposed to be portraying... Laura Gilreath and Aaron Mathias do an alright job with the maddeningly bad script and direction. I love when the half brother is giving Andy sh*t about borrowing his boat, and then when we finally see the boat it's a pretty cheap boat with cheap plastic back yard chairs tied together. There's some decent story twists that I enjoyed, such as Mary finding him and getting taken back to the hospital and Aaron pursuing, showing you the movie really could have been better if they had just kept the story more human and not tried to be so "smart" with the dialog that really hurt the film. 1/10