"Grave Seekers" in observing the golden mean in everything: in timekeeping, in the behavior of the characters, the amount of horror written to the audience and the quality of shooting. Horror films are more profitable to be short, because it is quite easy to bend the stick, be drawn out, and an hour and a half that lasts "Seekers" is quite enough. This picture belongs to a large group, headed by “The Blair Witch”, “Paranormal phenomenon” and “Report”, namely to films stylized for documentary shooting. And here lies one of the main intrigues: at the beginning, we see the project manager telling about the transfer, we see the team “Seekers” and understand that not all will survive, but it is not possible to predict further events. Did the whole group take the tapes with the footage, someone did it alone, and maybe the equipment was found by those who came after?
The place where reporters go is itself creepy: a psychiatric hospital. Incidentally, the events of the second part of the film - endless corridors, time going on differently - can be seen as something that happens in the head of distraught seekers who do not believe what they found in the building. If we talk about the team, I liked that these guys are not without curiosity, craving for the unknown, but at the same time they are not naive: they brought a fake medium with them, asked a local worker to tell about a ghost that he did not see in the eyes.
A huge disadvantage for me is the curtsey towards Reportage - an attempt to explain what is happening by demonic forces, the appearance of occult books, skulls and candles in the finale. However, the final history of the hospital is not told, demons are not convinced, and therefore the presence of the attributes of the call means only that someone believes in the demon, and not that this demon actually exists. The achievement is very peculiar, but I finally managed to find a good horror movie.
7 out of 10
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