I decided to rent this movie mainly because Roddy Piper was in it. In the past, he has appeared in some very enjoyable movies, and I thought this effort might be another one. Sadly, Roddy is not one of the main characters, and not only is he unrecognizable, he doesn't get to do that much here.The rest of the movie is even worse. It appears that the movie only spent money on the digital camera and a few other technical pieces of equipment, because hardly anything resembling "production values" appears on screen. It just seems that the movie had access to a bar and an abandoned building, and wrote a screenplay that could use those locations without bringing in anything else. As a result, the movie looks extremely cheap, not helped by poor lighting and goofs like the shadow of the boom mike appearing on a wall in the background.But what's worse is the extremely slow pace. It takes forever for the characters to realize they are in jeopardy, and once they realize this, they don't do the logical thing like get out of there. In short, there is absolutely nothing here to justify giving the movie a look.

Aaron; the Goldfield Hotel really does sit on the I95 approx 170 miles north of Vegas. I know this for a fact because I lived in Goldfield for 4 years and spent a lot of time at the hotel.I watched this movie because it was based on the Goldfield Hotel, however none of the interior was filmed there. It was filmed entirely inside the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, 26 miles away. It was much more fun watching the background, trying to see my old house, reminiscing with friends who I used to hang around the Mizpah with. I actually lived in room 109 of the Mizpah for a while(not the one on film, that was another part of the hotel). There are other discrepancies just with the location that it made it fun to watch.If you are from the Tonopah/Goldfield area you should watch this! Most people are not from here and would not enjoy any part of this movie. The acting was terrible, the script was full of crap that no one actually says, the story was slow, you wait and wait for something to happen, ANYTHING to happen that I'd be surprised if you were still watching when they finally do something during the crappy last 5 minutes of this crappy film.

I don't watch a horror movie looking for perfection. I look for a decent story that isn't screwed up by the actors or production staff. Unfortunately, pretty much everything that could have been done wrong in this film was.First, lets talk about the group of five documenting hauntings in the abandoned hotel. Only three of the five were actually doing so. The two remaining hangers-on were the stock obnoxious boyfriend and slutty girlfriend - both of whom were so obviously ill-matched with their partners that it trumped all suspension of disbelief. There was simply no way either of the documentarians would have been going out with either of their mates.Second, lets talk about shooting day for night. This is when a film is shot in daylight but manipulated to make it appear that the scenes were shot at night. At the very darkest it appears that the events in this movie occurred at around dusk. During other interior shots throughout the film it was clearly daylight outside because - duh - you could see the daylight through the windows. I don't believe a single exterior shot was actually filmed at night, and sometimes within the same scene the lighting would change from more red to more blue. The characters also inexplicably kept returning to what seems to be the basement of the hotel, which not only seemed to be a bit more haunted than the rest of the place, but also generally had daylight streaming down into it.Third, how about doing at least a LITTLE research for minor points? This Nevada hotel was, to paraphrase, "one of the grandest hotels between Chicago and San Francisco. Now it sits abandoned off I-95." Can anyone tell me what is wrong with that sentence? Exactly! I-95 runs north-south from Maine to Florida. Would it really have taken more than 20 seconds to find a genuine interstate or state highway along which to place this hotel? Fourth, the ending is never explained and the viewer is left not really knowing why it ended as it did. I know this is often a device used by inferior film-makers to deflect criticism by reflecting it back to how stupid the viewer must be to not understand the film. Viewers too often fall into this trap, and sometimes with good reason. In this case, however, the nonsensical ending is yet another symptom of a horrible movie - not the viewer's inability to follow a story.Even when looking for a low-budget horror flick to pass an October evening, avoid this one.

Julie and her crew go down to the ghost town of Goldfield hoping to get some juicy stuff about the nearby hotel that's supposedly haunted by Elizabeth Walker, a young woman who had been killed after her wealthy guy found out that the baby she was carrying was not his own. The crew want to get video of her as she prowls the hotel's corridors looking for said baby, who was also murdered.The big selling point for me in renting this film was the sheer fact the Roddy Piper was in it. Visons of past greatness such as "They Live", "Hell Comes to Frogtown" (and to a lesser degree "No Contest") danced in my head. I was kind of hoping to see a nice ghost story as well. Sadly this mess of a film accomplished neither as I soon sadly realized that Piper's character was dreadfully under-developed and left him nothing to work with. And the ghost story was predictable, trite, and above all dreadfully boring. Leave this one in the bargain bin where it belongs.My Grade: D- DVD Extras: a stills gallery; a trailer for this film; and trailers for "Dark Reel", "Baseline Killer", & "Carnivorous"