The Gallows

2015 "Every School Has Its Spirit."
4.2| 1h21m| R| en
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20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone.

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Also starring Pfeifer Brown

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Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.
Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Markus Steph This film is terrible. The actors are so bad. Everything is so stupid. It's not scary only really stupid. How can anyone think this is a good idea? It is a bit funny to watch how bad everything isDon't waste your timeI have to make this review longer for some reason It's stupid because there is not more to say about this terrible movie
bseaman-20248 I would give this a zero if the IMDb rating scale allowed me to. The plot summary on Netflix suggested this might be an intriguing, if low budget, horror flick. The fact that I had never heard of any of the ahem, "actors" (if one can use that term for a bunch of nobodies who decided they just had to make a movie)should, in retrospect, be the first clue that a viewer is about to see something best left unseen. I closed "The Gallows" at about the four minute mark, having seen enough to know that it wasn't going to get any better. Seriously, to any aspiring low budget film-maker out there, the hand-held video recording of events in faux documentary style is really old. It was novel when "The Blair Witch Project" was released back in 1999, not any more.
jacobjohntaylor1 There are so many found footage movies that suck. And this is one of them. I do not find these movie to all that real. Most just badly written and badly acted. I would be OK if there were more good found footage movies. It is just so many like this one. Are badly written and badly acted. And have an awful ending. This movie is not scary at all. It is about a hunted school. And it is not scary at all. It got a 4.3 which it not a good rating. But this movie is so bad. 4.3 is overrating it. It stink so mush it should be lower then 4.3. That does not really show just how bad this movie is. This is one of the worst horror movies of all time.
eddie_baggins For years mankind has wondered about the possibility of there being someone/something out there in the great expands of the universe. Another intelligent life-force that may one day visit our lowly shores to learn about us curious beings and hopefully not blast us away with advanced technology or decide to take us away for some good old fashioned experimentation. If indeed one day we find ourselves in communication with a great race equal to our technological advancements let us all hope that these visitors do not find a copy of found footage horror film The Gallows, as their judgements upon mankind may be non-recoverable.A film so daft and downright dumb it's hard to fathom how it came into existence in the first place, The Gallows as directed by duo Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing (seriously it took two people to make this turkey!) is the type of film where you can feel your brain cells disappearing with each passing minute as annoying characters make unintelligible decision upon unintelligible decision and seemingly solvable solutions are ignored in the sake of more shakily handled "scares".A new low in the past it's use by date genre of found footage horrors, The Gallows plunges to previously unseen depths of narrative drivel to tell the story of painfully badly acted teenage brats breaking into their seemingly medievally secured school to wreck the set to an upcoming play only to be haunted by an ominous fiend who locks them in the school facility (really there's not a single window that could be smashed to break out of?) to wreck all manner of nasties on them.Watch on in disbelief as these unlikeable creations knock pot plants down, "dismantle" sets by taking a piece of wood out of a stage setting and generally fail at their objective only to be bettered or worsened by the fact that their school break in just happens to be in a school that seemingly has forgone any type of security, whether it be guards, cameras, motion detectors or even the locking of a door that would take 1 minute to fix, this school does not care who wonders its grounds come closing time! It's almost as if The Gallows creators Cluff and Lofing decided they were onto narrative gold or perhaps just an easy paycheck and set forth on making their film no matter if anything actually made sense or if logic was totally bypassed, it's almost akin to a home movie production, just far less funny or enjoyable.The Gallows is neither scary or original and nothing about the film feels even remotely believable, even in a genre that's not supposed to be clothed in reality.Taking place around some seriously lax logic and scenarios, The Gallows gets its rating purely based around the fact it's something that needs to be seen to be believed as for those that thought modern day horrors and found footage films had reached their lowest ebbs, The Gallows is here to show us all that the bar has been set even lower.In other words, all copies of this film should be locked away or simply destroyed quick smart…… before the intergalactic visitors arrive! ½ an unsecured school facility out of 5