Grave Encounters
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| Directed by | The Vicious Brothers |
| Produced by | Twin Engine Films Digital Interference Productions Shawn Angelski Michael Karlin |
| Written by | The Vicious Brothers |
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Sean Rogerson Ashleigh Gryzko Mackenzie Gray Juan Riedinger Merwin Mondesir Matthew K McBride |
| Music by | Quynne Craddock |
| Cinematography | Tony Mirza |
| Edited by | The Vicious Brothers |
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| Distributed by | Tribeca Film Festival |
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95 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $5,408,334 |
Grave Encounters is a 2011 Canadian supernatural horror film, shot found footage style. The footage follows the crew of a paranormal reality television program who lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital in search of evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Written and directed by Collin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, the film premiered on April 22, 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival and received mostly mixed reviews. The film was released on August 25, 2011 in select theaters using the Eventful Demand It and Video on Demand via Comcast. The film premiered internationally in Italy via distributor Eagle Pictures under the title ESP Fenomeni Paranormali on June 1, 2011.
Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film received a cult following and spawned a sequel in 2012.
Jerry Hartfield, the producer of Grave Encounters, a famous ghost investigation television series, explains that Grave Encounters was cancelled in 2003 after the fifth episode, when the cast and crew, along with the footage for episode six, mysteriously went missing. The footage was finally recovered in 2010 and brought to Hartfield. In it, the show's host Lance Preston, along with occult specialist Sasha Parker, surveillance operator Matt White, cameraman T.C. Gibson, and fake medium Houston Grey, investigate the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where many instances of paranormal activity have been reported since its closure.
After taking a tour of the hospital, the crew begin an overnight surveillance campaign while locking themselves inside. At first, everything is quiet, but soon, strange phenomena begin to occur, such as odd noises, doors automatically slamming shut, and (unseen to anyone but the audience) a wheelchair moving on its own. After recording a haunting where an invisible entity moves Sasha's hair, the group decides to finish their filming and wait for 7 AM when the caretaker will let them out.
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