I watch a lot of B movie horrors and therefore I didn't expect much from this film but I did expect something. Instead I was served with one of the worst films ever committed to celluloid. The film was appalling, the acting was atrocious, the plot and dialogue were laughable, it was boring and the effects were like something out of a particularly bad episode of Power Rangers. The ending was as bad as the rest of this monumentally awful dross. Rarely do I see a film with zero redeeming qualities but this fits the bill perfectly. Quite what was going through the mind of the writer/director when he finished this is beyond me. If he thinks this is acceptable then he's got problems. Quite how this isn't in the bottom 100 of IMDb films is beyond me, yes it's that bad. Who will it appeal to- I've absolutely no idea as it isn't scary, gory, intense, well written or remotely interesting in any way. I am annoyed I had to sit through this junk and annoyed I can't find one teeny weeny good thing to say about it other than it ends. And that believe me is the most satisfaction you will get from this 'effort'. Abysmal with a capital A.

This movie is such a disappointment. It looked good on the surface, and I liked 'Dog Soldiers', so I thought it had potential. The reason it is so disappointing is that it is, in places, quite good. There are flashes of moments which are actually a bit scary. Some clever lighting/camera effects create moments of atmosphere. However, there are 2 main flaws. Firstly, The acting is terrible. And I mean really terrible. For the first 5 minutes, I was convinced the actors would 'wake up' and it be a dream, or it was a spoof of the start. But no, the terrible acting continues throughout, and it's so bad that you can't be drawn in enough to get scared. Secondly, it feels like they have tried too much to scare. The special effects feel amateurish, and the real scary bits are split seconds of clever lighting or shadows. To make matters worse, the plot is awful and leaves for too much unexplained or with very weak reasoning. Please avoid at all costs - it's an hour and a half of your life you'll never get back!

Boo is set on Halloween as macho man Kevin (Jilon Ghai) & his mate Freddy (Josh Holt) dare two girls Jessie (Trish Coren) & Marie (Nicole Rayburn) to spend the night in an old supposedly haunted mental hospital called the Linda Vista, although not keen at first the two girls eventually agree. What Jessie & Marie don't know is that a third guy named Emmett (Happy Mahaney) has rigged the place with spooky cheap scares but soon finds outs that hospital is haunted anyway. As the four teens turn up & enter the hospital things go from bad to worse as an evil ghost tries to possess them in order to leave the confines the hospital & with all the doors & windows boarded up they are all trapped inside...Written & directed by Anthony C. Ferrante this haunted house ghost film was just about watchable but nothing special, to be honest I will have probably totally forgotten about it by the end of the week. The set-up is pretty typical stuff, a group of teens decide to spend the night in some creepy abandoned place which has various ghost stories surrounding it & find to their cost that the stories were real. At 90 odd minutes it has a reasonable pace although it does drag at times with seemingly endless shots of teens wandering around dark corridors & the story itself just isn't that gripping or satisfying. The narrative is poor with too many random occurrences or things which just aren't explained, how does the ghost of Jacob possess someone? I mean if the teens are there why doesn't he just possess them as soon as his previous body is killed? What's with the random clown with no feet that levitates for a few seconds, changes the expression on it's face mask & then just collapse are bleeding maggots & worms? What were all the flashbacks by Jessie all about? Why was she having vivid flashbacks to moments she couldn't have known anything about? How was her mother involved? Where did those keys she found come from? Why not tell her friends about them? Why does Jacob not want to live in a human body anymore at the end? It's never made clear. Also what's with the black cop who appeared in an in film film? Does that have relevance at all? Why did possessed people explode when shot? To be fair to Boo it's not the worst teen horror film out there but it's far from the best, one or two lines of dialogue are amusing with 'if you shoot me in the face I'll kick your ass' probably the highlight. A bit of a mess really, for every positive Boo has there's a negative.The feel & atmosphere of Boo is alright, the sets are quite moody but just covering everything in shadow does tend to get boring & the lack of any real visuals other than black gets annoying. There's a bit of gore & pleasingly the CGI computer effects are kept to a minimum with the majority of the gore achieved with practical on-set effect, there's a skinned dog whose head is blown off, a few exploding people, some decent skin melting effects, a melted hand & decent amounts of blood splatter. There's some blatant horror film rip-offs going on here with an opening sequence that is a mix between Halloween (1978) & Scream (1996) while the film after feels like a cross between House on Haunted Hill (1999) & The Grudge (2004).Apparently shot at the end of 2003 this wasn't released anywhere until mid 2006 which is no great surprise. Actress Dee Wallace has a small cameo while the rest of the cast are pretty poor.Boo is not I film that I thought was particularly good, it has a few moments I suppose but the messy script & poor narrative along with an all too familiar feel means I can't even describe Boo as mediocre, it's slightly below average but having said that it's not the worst film out there it's just that it's nowhere near the best either.

I personally thought that for a film that did not go onto big screen, that this was awesome. It's your typical teen horror film but its genuinely freaky. It makes you jump, the special effects are very good for a B movie (as seen with many of the "dripping" people). Though it isn't incredibly original, the story line is enjoyable and the film was entertaining throughout. On the whole,from a person who loves horror films, this was a great film. It was eerie, spooky and one of my personal favourites, after all its a horror film in set in a disused hospital and mental asylum. If that isn't attractive to a horror fan then what is!?