The Ganzfeld Haunting

2014

Horror / Thriller

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 4%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 4%
IMDb Rating 3.1/10 10 939 939

Plot summary

In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend...

Top cast

Holt McCallany as Detective Murphy
Billy Zane as Father
Dominic Purcell as Detective Malone
Laura Wiggins as Molloy
720p.WEB
791.12 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by wormsoftheerth

80 minute ad for cocaine

This movie had about 20 minutes worth of potential substance, padded with 60 minutes of absolutely useless filler. It starts out with some kids attempting some kind of ESP experiment in a seemingly abandoned house. For a while I thought it had potential, but quickly realized I had made a grave miscalculation. Right from the get go we are thrust into the middle of the story with no explanation or background given whatsoever. After about 20 minutes of throwing random images and dialog at the viewer in hopes of building up a creepy and mystic atmosphere (scenes of the first stages of the experiment) I guess the producers were like "ok well dang...that's all we got" and then scrambled to find another hours worth of footage to use so they could call this a film. The bulk of the remainder of the movie is softcore porn and nonstop shots of people doing cocaine. Like, they literally do at least 50 lines of coke in the span of one day. After a few minutes of this it becomes painfully obvious that the concept of a film has been thrown out the window in favor of endless cheap sleaze. The majority of the film felt like a clichéd, unimaginative music video without direction (oh, they even play some really annoying dubstep for a while over unnecessary scenes of partying). Ultimately there is NO point to this movie whatsoever and I have no idea why they even bothered to make it. No story, no character development, nothing. There are very few scenes which have anything to do with the supposed plot; most of which were comprised of choppy "visions", super cheesy ghost...sister...thing(still not sure what that was about and don't care enough to find out), and some convoluted voice-over meant to sound deep while attempting to mask the complete lack of genuine depth or plot. Do not waste your time unless you're just looking for footage of teens partying. The people in charge of this film (writer, director) need to move to another profession as they seem to have a gross lack of understanding as to what a movie is.
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Reviewed by spikerags-649-702722 2 / 10

Like Paranormal Activity, but with more drugs and less paranormal activity

I didn't go into this film expecting it to be an amazing film, but I didn't expect it to be as bad as it was. For starters, the picture on the case (a big building that looks like an asylum of some sort) and the synopsis on the back of the case, did not match the setting or the events of the film. Secondly, the film had a very tenuous link to the Ganzfeld experiments, certainly not one big enough to justify having the film supposedly revolve around them. Another thing is the plot was very empty, to the point that 20 minutes of two teenage girls (who have an inexplicably large amount of cocaine) having sex-but-not-quite was needed to try and keep the audience at all interested, when really it served no purpose and added nothing to the film. There are no twists in the film, no surprises and no interesting new ideas. There was a gratuitous amount of plot holes and very forced, unnatural situations, even for a world where the 'paranormal' is real. If you don't take my word for how bad this film is, be sure to watch it anyway, that way you'll find out first hand just how abysmal it really is.

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