80% is a lady staring at nothing bug eyed and yelling as the other ppl pull her from one place to another . i think someone wrote a good script and someone else ruined it while making the movie. as you can see where it could be a great film but its like the writer died halfway through and no one bothered to fill in the rest of the script.

Attempting to uncover a grisly mystery, a documentary team searching for the cause of a mass grave in Russia finds the connection to an abandoned psychiatric institute and tries to get away before the inhabitants point out the same fate.This is a really enjoyable and quite chilling ghost story that has a lot of good points about it. The setting in the abandoned factory gives off an incredibly tense and eerie feeling which works rather well as a setting for such films by generally looking exactly like the type of place where bad things can happen quite easily and certainly looks like the kind of place that would be wholly unnerving when encountered in real life as the cold, lifeless cement and steel structures, endless dimly-or-barely lit corridors and deathly silence that surrounds the entire location is endlessly terrifying before the ghostly actions even start. those are certainly enjoyable enough in their own right as they continually come at such intervals that it never feels like it's dragging on or even all that boring as it stays on course sure enough through the story. Several of these are pretty terrifying as well, with standout encounters in the shock-treatment chamber and into the sleeping chambers which are the biggest ones here but there's enough encounters and interactions so that it's not all that slow-going at all and even feels quite exciting at times. However, it does have a couple of big flaws in that it really doesn't do a lot to help get the most out of it's scares by generally making everything so hard and nearly impossible to see. From shifting camera angles to rapid quick-cut editing and the utterly irritating feature of shooting through a video camera which in-effect resembles the found-footage type of films, there's an endless array about it that really serves to irritate and aggravate about this one which is certainly not the desired effect here when it simply cannot make what goes on that discernible. Without any real sort of violence in here, there's very little in that department to lure anyone in and the film's convoluted storyline in the second half hardly makes any sense at all by throwing in several countless plot-twists that aren't that clever. These drag the film down but it's still good enough when it counts.Rated R: Graphic Language and Violence.

Saw this at the LIFF where it deservedly won Best Horror. The acting is really strong. Will be watching Charlotte Riley's future with interest. I hear she has already landed a lead female starring role opposite Tom Cruise. I feel the director has given a masterclass in making a low budget film look anything but. I enjoyed the psychological horror as am not a great fan of gore. Not as many jumps as the Paranormal Activity series. This stuck with me for some time afterwards like The Blair Witch Project did and provoked me to scurry off to google to research into the historical background given as fact in the film and whether it was based on stuff that really happened in The Cold War. For me this adds to the scare factor. The sound was impressively frightening and in the peaks of the film I had my hands over my ears and squinting through my eyes. Win for me.

I saw this movie at the Grimmfest in Manchester-Stockport and must say that it's so much better than the trailer might even suggest. The crew of a psychic-themed TV series goes to investigate a mysterious site in the Russian forests where thirty-four dead bodies were dug up, they find themselves caught up in the aftermath of a government black-ops project that has left a massive abandoned research facility drowning in bad vibes, ghosts and residual nightmares. Steve Stone managed to create a very haunting, atmospheric and especially claustrophobic horror thriller that keeps you at the edge of your seat. I was also especially surprised by the brilliant performances of the actors, something you don't find very often in genre films. Dervla Kirwan plays psychic Ruth Peacock in a very subtle and beautifully understated way, Charlotte Riley is perfectly cast as the ambitious young TV host and Branko Tomovic who has his own darker reasons for bringing the British crew into the Siberian forest as the Russian character Yuri gives a wonderfully twisted, tormented and also emotional performance. I was also impressed with the locations, especially this huge overwhelming tunnel or industrial silo. Sadly, Steve Stone did not reveal where it was exactly shot at the following Q&A. And I also must stress the brilliant sound design which makes the whole Entity experience very frightening. The only small weak point in my opinion is the found footage style at times, just because we have seen it often enough by now. Had it come out a couple of years ago before Rec, VHS, etc it could have been the great inception of this style. But nonetheless British horror at its best! 9/10