For their ghost-hunting reality show, a production crew locks themselves
inside an abandoned mental hospital that's supposedly haunted - and it might prove to
be all too true to believe. Stay tuned to see how things will turn out in the end.
Today we throw it all the way back to 2011,
where we’ll be covering the found footage horror movie called Grave Encounters.
Written and directed by the Vicious brothers, It is about a group of filmmakers who accidentally
get stuck inside a haunted asylum and have to face paranormal consequences.
WARNING: There are spoilers ahead for the entirety of the movie!
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The film opens with a television producer by the name of Jerry Hartfield, who is describing
Grave Encounters. This is a paranormal reality television program directed by and starring ghost
hunter Lance Preston. Sadly, it was canceled after just five episodes. He says this show
is unlike all the other fake ghost hunting shows that you may have come across before.
Hartfield explains that the events about to be shown in the film are raw footage from
the sixth and final episode filmed, “they have not been doctored in any way”. They have been
edited only for time-restraint purposes. We are soon shown what the hype has been about.
The footage starts with the crew of Grave Encounters composed of Lance himself,
occult specialist Sasha Parker, technical expert Matt White, cameraman T. C. Gibson,
and guest starring psychic medium Houston Grey preparing to investigate the abandoned Collingwood
Psychiatric Hospital where unexplained phenomena have been reported for years.
Lance explains the history of Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital.
He says, “In between 1895 and 1950
it played home to more than 8,000 of Maryland’s most mentally ill and disturbed individuals”
With the brief history now out of the way, Lance introduces us to Morgan Turner,
who is a local town historian. Morgan explains that the conditions in the asylum were abysmal
and not really fit for anything let alone those of unsound mind. Some archival footage of the
patients at the asylum is shown as Morgan tells Lance more about the ins and outs of the place.
Lance asks Morgan about the physician named Arthur Friedkin,
who was a “Harvard trained physician”. Arthur was well-known for his work at the asylum
and as we find out further, it is not surprising why. He performed unethical
experiments including experimental brain surgeries on the patients at the hospital.
Morgan further explains that one day eight patients escaped out of their rooms
and stabbed and killed Arthur Friedkin; a sorry ending for someone who showed little mercy.
Lance then asks Morgan if he believes in ghosts.
Morgan says, “If they do this would be a good place to look for them.”
Lance leads the group to the entrance of the asylum. The door has “Death Awaits” written on it.
Not being detracted away by the ominous sign, the group does what they can only do:
They open the chain and enter the asylum. They are taken inside by Kenny Sandavol,
the hospital’s caretaker. Lance interviews him and asks him if he’s seen anything and
he reveals that during his whole career, he has heard some sounds and felt as if he wasn’t alone.
At this point, the only thing that comes to mind is that it could be further human experiments,
but Arthur has died, or so we have been told. Kenny shows the crew a window and says that he
locks it every night, but in the morning it is always opened. He further shows them a bathtub
where a patient slit her wrists and died. He then gives them a tour of the tunnels.
Lance goes around the area, interviewing people including a young couple who say
that they’ve encountered a ghost once in one of the hallways.
He goes outside and spots a gardener. He asks them if he has seen anything
and the gardener says he just got here. Lance bribes him into giving a fake reaction.
We are then introduced to a psychic medium called Houston Grey. He enters
the building and says that he is sensing some negative energy in the surroundings.
He puts up an act in which he senses a dead girl in the bathtub.
They all laugh it out when the camera is cut. So far nothing is out of the ordinary then.
The crew voluntarily lock themselves inside Collingwood for the night
and begin their investigation, setting up camp near the hospital's main entrance,
which is locked from the outside. Matt explains all the equipment which they’ll be using.
At night, Kenny locks them inside as per Lance’s instructions. The crew members aren’t in favor
of that decision but Lance says it looks great for the show. The suspense is clearly building.
The crew tries many things to provoke any paranormal
entities but no paranormal activity occurs for the first few hours.
As they begin to get a bit bored, they decide to relax a little while.
T.C puts down the camera in one of the hallways to receive a call. There is a wheelchair behind
him. As he is talking on the phone the wheelchair moves slightly but he doesn’t notice. Suddenly
a door slams behind T. C. by itself while he is filming around the building. He first thinks that
it is just his crewmates trying to prank him. He shows them the footage which makes Lance excited.
Later Lance and his crew try to establish contact with the unseen entities responsible
but they don’t get any response which annoys Lance. Out of nowhere, they hear a sound coming
from behind which scares them. They investigate it and realize that a stretcher has been thrown
over in one of the wards. They go to the fourth floor and use their audio capturing device.
When Sasha plays the recording, they hear a sound and someone pulls Sasha’s hair
and they all run away in fear.
They investigate further and Lance takes a few pictures of
the area in the hope that he can discover something later when he looks back at it.
There are some paranormal entities present in the pictures.
Lance and his crew are further tormented by more hauntings,
which become increasingly blatant and hostile.
They get lost in the hallways but eventually regroup with all the teammates at the entrance.
With half an hour left before the hospital caretaker comes to unlock the front doors,
the crew starts packing. Matt goes to retrieve the cameras stationed throughout the building
but he suddenly disappears. In an act of hesitancy and worry,
the rest of the members know they must find him or else they fear the worst may have happened.
The others spend the next several hours looking for Matt in the hope they can all leave soon.
They find his equipment spread all over the floor but there are no signs of him. While they are
looking for Matt, T.C moves upstairs but something pulls him down which causes fear among the crew.
Kenny, the caretaker, has not arrived yet. They all go back to the entrance and try calling Kenny
but they do not get any signal. Everyone starts to panic further
and the emotions start to spill over, as people are being driven to the edge.
T.C gets angrier and angrier. They all knock down the front doors to try and escape,
only to discover it leads to another corridor.
They find another exit door but that leads to another dead end. There seems to be no way out.
They also notice that it is still night outside when it should be daylight. Something is clearly
amiss. Houston suggests that it might not actually be night but there is something
wrong with the clock. They go upstairs and find a wall which indicates another dead end.
Later on, Lance reveals that Sasha has marks on her back,
saying “Hello”. They continue to hear the sounds of Matt. While they’re searching for both Matt
and an exit they encounter a girl whose face contorts demonically.
There is no denying what they have seen with their own eyes. With no time to lose, they panic.
The crew flees in fear, but Houston is separated from the others
and later violently assaulted by an unseen force, killing him.
While resting, the others find hospital tags bearing their names on their wrists. As they
search for an exit they slowly start becoming hysterical and end up arguing. As they proceed,
weird hands come out of the doors and try to grab Sasha but Lance saves her and they run away.
They eventually find Matt, who is wearing a hospital gown and has been driven insane,
mumbling nonsense about his apparent psychological disorder, and explaining that the only way for
them to escape is for them to "get better" at the hands of the hospital's unseen residents.
As Sasha and Lance are sitting down, another set of hands start coming out of the roof.
Desperate to escape from what they have just seen, they end up in the same bathroom as shown earlier.
The bathtub, though, is full of blood. T.C goes closer and gets pulled violently
into a bathtub filled with blood by a ghost and disappears. Matt starts laughing in the corner.
They all run and find an elevator. Lance grabs a rod from under one of the stretchers and
finds a tongue on one of the floors. He sees a tongueless demon on the wall shouting at them.
Matt falls down an elevator shaft to his death as Lance
and Sasha are attacked by the tongueless demon.
Lance and Sasha enter the tunnels in search of another exit.
As they proceed Sasha becomes violently ill,
and disappears in a mysterious fog that appeared while she and Lance slept.
Terrified and insane, Lance continues through the tunnels alone, surviving by killing and
eating rats, until he finds a door leading to Friedkin's operating room. It contains
an altar and pentagram for a demonic ritual, showing that Arthur had been using black magic.
His human experiments were in fact rituals being carried out for a sinister purpose
and the crew were just the next members in line for that.
He turns to see the apparitions of Friedkin and several nurses, who drag a screaming Lance onto
their operating table. Before we can see what may happen, the camera blanks out for a moment
before showing a lobotomized Lance, who says he is now "better" and is now allowed to go home.
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