Five young adults spend Halloween in an empty Hostel "west of Ireland." There is no electricity except there is power to the installed cameras, go figure. They drink, smoke, start a fire and play "ask the glass" a home made Ouija board. They managed to invoke (Conjuring has already been taken) a spirit (Paula Phelan) that wants "my children." Oh yes, this is a murder house too. At 53 minutes things begin to happen, no one believes the man who first filmed the ghost and apparently he had a camera you can't rewind and look at what you just shot.The film degrades into the classic run cam, floor cam, shoe cam, whine and snivel cam, scream in the dark cam, and girl dragged across the floor cam...been there done that and better. One of the characters mentions the film "Visions of Darkness" known for using paradoxical backgrounds. Normally clues like this are mentioned and then tie into the film in such a way to demonstrate creative genius of the script writer/director. I didn't notice that in this film where seeing landscapes was severely limited by the hand held genre.Guide: F-word. sex. Nudity? (Lynn Larkin) Actors used their real names.

I love found footage movies. I don't know why since so many of them are utter garbage. This movie wanted to be good, the filming was typical ff filming, the acting was good, the dialog was...forced. It took a bit to move along but at least was entertaining. It gave a creepy feel and that's nice. One of the most annoying things for me was , if this is supposed to be an abandoned hostel..why the fu** was it so clean and nice? Lol. It was cleaner than my grandmas! I guess I'm about done with FF. It's too far and few there's a truly good one. Loved the fact it's from Ireland though. .......Oh and if this film is supposed to be released in the USA in Sept 2017 why did I just see it on NF?? Lol oops someone did a typo!

First off I would like to say I really hate it when people who are attached to a film come on here and give it positive reviews, just let your movie speak for itself, why try and trick people into seeing it? With that said I feel like I must say that those fake reviews in no way effected my thoughts on this film or my following review.So here we go again with another cliché found footage film. Since the success of Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity we have seen a huge influx of these types of movies, and honestly I think it's safe to say that this may be one of the worst ones that I have seen (I have seen a lot). The film kicks off with a group of friends driving out to a hostel, once they get there we are treated to about an hour of them talking over each other and saying things that no body cares about. We never learn anything about our characters, we are never given any information that would make us care about them or what is going to happen to them.So after an hour of nothingness things start to pick up a little bit, there are one or two flashes or a creepy girl in a dress and then things just get obnoxious. There is a point in the final 25 minutes where one of the female leads screams almost non stop until the final scene, a high pitched extremely annoying scene. I really wanted to shut the film off at this point but figured I had made it that far so I might as well finish it. So the friends just run around in the dark while they get picked off one by one (I guess, it doesn't really show what happens to most of them), then we get one more really poorly edited scare scene and the credits roll.This is a bad movie, odds are the people who made it knew it was a bad movie. Found Footage is the go to genre for film makers who don't have an original idea or any kind of budget. Obnoxious characters, no real dialogue, bad effects, and a terrible pace make this one of the worst found footage films ever made.

'Invoked' is an Irish found-footage film (albeit co-written, directed, produced, shot and edited by a Brazilian, but that doesn't really matter, I don't even know why I mention it, it's just an interesting factoid... blah blah blah) in which we watch as a group of young people head out to a remote hostel for fun and frolics, but end up fearing for their very souls and all that stuff. I really enjoyed this film. Sure, it has a slow start, but that's the norm with this genre, but once the action starts, it's a thrill- ride and often quite scary. The cast are good and quite personable (although I could have slapped them for entertaining the notion of conducting a séance in a spooky location where the lights don't work!). Unfortunately, they also also frequently quite loud, but I suppose I'd be quite loud if a screaming ghost was chasing me down a corridor. The special effects are excellent and the climax is satisfying. My favourite part, though, is easy to miss, as the cast head into a tunnel beneath a cemetery, the camera waves about randomly as dialogue is exchanged and a terrifying figure is seen for a fraction of a second. I had to rewind, to make sure I had seen it. Great stuff! This was another DVD that I found on the supermarket shelf (quite close to 'Camera Trap'!), so give it a whirl.