5/26/2017

American Poltergeist (2015)

Rating: Thumbs Down 👎


Don't know why there is a toddler on the cover, as Girl B was literally an infant when it happened. 

If you've seen this movie, I am sorry. If you've seen this movie and I liked it, I am also sorry, you need help. I haven't seen acting this bad since SyFy's Mega Piranha (that acting was so bad that it physically pained me to watch the whole thing). 


The storyline in this film, I feel, is all over the place, much like this blog post. A handful of college students rent some rooms in a mansion for $325, utilities included; that seems like a red flag. Red flag two, why would a weird widow want to rent out her rooms to college students, unless she wants to try to bang some of them. Out of nowhere one girl, Girl A, starts sleepwalking, she slept walked so hard she got into the locked basement that the homeowner claimed there was no key for. Another girl, girl B, finds her and takes her back to bed. The next day Girl B tells her "brother," who is girl A's boyfriend about this. Shockingly he does not believe that she opened a locked, keyless door. Girl A is apparently also on medication and gets feelings when there are ghosts or something, it was pretty randomly brought up. Girl C then sees the ghost of Lizzy Borden, whose mansion this apparently was prior, and brings it up at lunch. The brother/boyfriend, Boy A, is so sick of this ghost shit and doesn't believe anything, shocking. There is also Boy B who is a christian and goes to church camp, he is very important as he is forced to perform an exorcism on the homeowner near the end of the film, which is humorous because he doesn't know what he's doing, and it's all so forced. 


So this movie, if you can call it that, involves the lost Borden baby, which I'm pretty sure is not real, unlike the Hindenburg baby who I think people still pretend to be, kinda like the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Girl B is apparently the lost Borden baby, and was adopted by Boy A's parents as an infant. Girl B's parents murdered her grandparents, and the mom hung herself in front of Girl B, I think, I'm not going back to check, if you really need to know watch it yourself. 



If you're lucky, maybe Lizzie will hack you to death 20 minutes into this film to spare you.

On the positive side, the film is relatively short, also if you are a fan of ridiculously bad acting you will probably enjoy it. 

Also did not care for Girl B's eyebrows, and hated any close up of them. Pluck them! 

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