Grave Encounters

Movie
German title	Grave Encounters
Original title	Grave Encounters
Country of production	United States , Canada
original language	English
Publishing year	2011
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Colin Minihan , Stuart Ortiz
script	Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz
production	Shawn Angelski
music	Quynne Alana Paxa
camera	Tony Mirza
cut	Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz
occupation
Sean Rogerson : Lance Preston Ashleigh Gryzko : Sasha Parker Merwin Mondesir : TC Gibson Mackenzie Gray : Houston Gray Juan Riedinger : Matt White Arthur Corber : Dr. Arthur Friedkin Bob Rathie : Kenny Sandavol Matthew K. McBride : Spiritual Power Ben Wilkinson : Jerry Hartfield Alex Timmer : The Tongue-less Demon Eva Gifford : Demon girls Michele Cummins : Bathtub Demon Shawn Macdonald : Morgan Turner Fred Keating : Gary Crawford Max Train : Punk Marita Eason : Punk Luis Jamer : Javier Ortega

Grave Encounters is an American - Canadian horror film about the supernatural , shot in found footage style.

action

In 2003, Lance Preston, host of the ghost hunter reality TV series Grave Encounters , and his crew went to the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Clinic for an episode that has been reporting unexplained phenomena for years. Since they are of the opinion that it will be beneficial to the success of the show, they lock themselves in the clinic for one night. They must quickly realize that they are dealing with a force that dwarfs everything they have experienced so far. Not only is the building cursed or possessed by ghosts, it lives itself and makes no move to let its new occupants go. Lost in a maze of seemingly endless corridors and corridors and terrified by the ghosts of previous patients, Preston and his crew go mad. The recordings that were made that night will only be made available to the public years later.

background

The shooting of Grave Encounters took place in the Riverview Hospital , which was already the location for many other film and television productions, in Canada. The film was released in Germany on September 25, 2012 on DVD and on December 19, 2011 internationally as a download from the iTunes Store .

The premiere in the USA took place on April 22, 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival and in Germany at the Fantasy Film Festival 2011 .

With a budget of two million dollars , the film played a total of 5,408,334 US dollars.

reception

Grave Encounters received mixed to negative reviews. The New York Press praised the film as "the scariest movie since the Ring ". On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film received a positive rating from two thirds of the film critics, but only from just under half of the audience.

The German horror film Heilstätten , released in 2018, takes up a motif similar to Grave Encounters .

continuation

There was a sequel called Grave Encounters 2 , directed by John Poliquin and written by Stuart Ortiz and Colin Minihan. The film was released on DVD on September 24, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Approval certificate for Grave Encounters . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 837 V).
2. ↑ Publication in Germany
3. ↑ Worldwide revenue on BoxofficeMojo.com
4. ↑ Review on RottonTomatoes.com
5. ↑ Max Wieseler: Heilstätten - 5 films that inspired YouTube horror . In: Moviepilot , February 24, 2018, accessed on February 27, 2018.
6. ↑ Grave Encounters 2 publication

Web links

• Grave Encounters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Grave Encounters in the online film database