I thought this was an okay movie. General Cemetery is about a girl, Andrea, who lost her father and her friends just want to make her feel better. Of course the only way they can achieve this is by attempting to speak to her deceased father via a ouija board.
We really focus of Pablo, who claims to be making a documentary which is why we have all this footage. Mostly Pablo enjoys filming Andrea, who is depressed and usually staring off into the distance. The film starts with Pablo filming the funeral that Andrea and her mother are at, we are then taken to Andrea's house where Pablo has a discussion with her mother that I don't think was translated well. When he is in the kitchen he asks her mother about what happened that night, and she refuses to talk about it but then he tells her he has camera footage and wants to show her what happened that night - so I'm not sure what the mother knew or what they were really talking about.
The footage he films is pretty typical, they're at school, Andrea's best friend of course has an aunt who knows how to use the ouija so they and there two other male friends make it a date at Andrea's house to try to communicate with her father. The two other male friends whose names I don't remember, I believe the attractive one was named Gabriel and they just referred to the other as Fatso, don't take it seriously. Well Fatso does, as it scares him, and Gabriel uses it to make fun of Fatso - he pretends the ouija spelled "I'm stupid" and makes him read it aloud. Andrea is pissed that they're not taking it seriously, so they plan to do it again at the cemetery where her father is buried on another night.
The night rolls around and everyone is dressed in black and ready to go - only slight problem Andrea's little sister Eva has heard about this and wants to tag along as well. Andrea caves and Gabriel's hot girlfriend drives them to the cemetery. They climb a wall and Gabriel leads them through the extensive cemetery, pranking them once along the way, to their fathers grave. Ouija girl, whose name is possibly Marya, says it will work better on an old grave and forces them to move, much to Andrea's displeasure.
They get set up and ready to go, Marya does some chanting and then ominous music begins playing, Fatso's cellphone is ringing (he changed the tone to fit the mood), Marya is pissed and collects everyones cellphones and puts them in her bag. Finally we reach some spirits but, to no ones surprise, Eva becomes possessed. There is an annoying amount of running around and screaming her name as possessed Eva is now the target.
When Eva is finally caught Pablo is forced to go back to the sight of the seance to retrieve a bottle of holy water that Andrea brought with her. Pablo finds the holy water and notices that Marya has 20+ missed calls and a voicemail from her aunt. He listens to it and it turns out Marya planned all this as some sort of revenge. She's been harboring this for a long time, who knows if Eva was even born when she started planning this. Pablo runs back, they douse Eva, and then he confronts Marya about all this. Andrea is pissed and of course feels betrayed. Eva is still possessed and kills Marya.
We then come back to the beginning of the film, Pablo was filming Andrea and her mother at Eva's funeral, not her father's. Of course the mother has no idea why Pablo is showing her this tape, he tells her this is why and shows more footage of him still being haunted. I am going to assume everyone else who was there is still being haunted it just wasn't mentioned. Pablo doesn't want to deal with this anymore and wants Marya to leave him alone.
The end isn't that great, they kill off Fatso and Gabriel very quickly, and quite frankly for no reason. Marya wanted revenge on Andrea and Eva because their father had an affair with her mother - this caused Marya's father to leave and her mother to end up in a mental institution. Eva was already dead from the possession and Andrea was on her way there - even their mother kills herself after finding out from Pablo about the affair.
Basically no one survives in this movie, it's a good mix of "found footage" and actual filming. The found footage stuff isn't badly done, but sometimes it is out of focus which really annoyed me, but it wasn't shaky because they mixed the found footage that he filmed with actual filming of them so it's not all told from that point of view.
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