I accidentally lost my whole review as a result of touching a wrong button so I'll have to rewrite it. This dumb movie tries to appear based on true events, and does so by mugging us constantly with "Actual footage" alongside the movie footage, in some cases showing us side-by-sides, in other cases just showing us random snippets of interviews with absolutely no context. I realized too late that this was similar to what "The Fourth Kind" did, but at the very least "The Fourth Kind" gave us some fun "actual footage" stuff, whereas all the "actual footage" presented in this film consists of out of context news snippets, apparent interviews, and a deposition with the actual radio host guy Charlie, who looks absolutely nothing like the actor they have portraying him in the movie.The paranormal cause they've latched onto is... "Shadow People", the idea that there are spooky ghostly boogins that sit on you while you sleep and suffocate you to death. Right away this is nonsense, as this describes an actual medical condition known as sleep paralysis which is not at all paranormal or supernatural. This is like the film devoting itself to "proving" that the first crop circles were actually alien when the actual people who made the crop circles have long since admitted that they did it on their own and it wasn't aliens. The film initially manages to hook me with its anomalous events, in which Charlie at his radio show gets a call from a seemingly disturbed person, Jeff, who claims he cannot sleep because shadow people or something will get him. He's hung up on, but tracks down Charlie's house and leaves him a package full of photographs of a supposed experiment done by a Dr Ravenscroft, the most horrifically cliché horror-movie-scientist name ever, in which he attempts to have people open a door while asleep, and inexplicably all the test subjects die. Next day he calls Charlie's station again, apparently threatens to kill himself, and apparently does as we hear a gunshot. But it turns out he only shot at a wall, and when the station called the cops to check on him, they hospitalized him.The surprise twist is, when Charlie comes to try to interview him at the hospital, they discover he died in the hospital inexplicably. From there, the movie abandons whatever it may have been building up with the Jeff case by outright showing us "Shadow people" attacks on random people who have all heard the radio broadcast. Charlie teams up with a detective woman whose name I forgot (sorry) and they try to track down more information on Dr Ebonyravenhartcroft and his experiments.All throughout this we are treated to more snippets of Charlie talking about shadow people on his radio show, and out of context interviews with random people who either knew the victims or work at the radio station.Eventually they dig up his supposed body, only to find in his coffin a reel of footage of the experiment they were looking for! They watch the video and it consists of the experiment, where we see one subject sleeping while the big metal door behind him has its knob slowly turn, before the subject goes into convulsions. This... isn't proof of anything, yet Charlie and the detective woman treat it as though it were ABSOLUTE CONCLUSIVE PROOF of the existence of Shadow People. Charlie is so convinced he is going to show the footage on a local news broadcast.But then as Detective Woman nearly goes into a condescending explanation to a gas station attendant on the placebo effect, she has a dumb "eureka" moment and decides that all 3-4 of the Shadow People occurrences in town have been the result of the placebo effect, in that everyone listening to Charlie on the radio talk about Shadow People are somehow accidentally killing themselves when they sleep. She rushes to the news station to warn Charlie not to show the footage, or else even more people will end up dying. First off, this is insanely stupid in so many directions at once it made me genuinely angry. Second off, if this were even remotely true, they would probably have to ban the internet and most movies or else thousands of people would end up suddenly dying or getting sick after spooking themselves with whatever trash video they see online. Somehow Charlie gets the idea that she's right, and at the last moment live on the air stammers and says he has no footage, it was all an elaborate hoax, and runs off. Inexplicably they decide to show us the "actual footage" of Charlie doing this alongside the movie version, which shows us they apparently didn't even remotely care about emulating the "actual" events, as the "actual footage" shows Charlie being interviewed by a black reporter at a big round table, while the movie version shows Charlie seated between a white male and female reporter at a regular news desk. Despite the footage not at all coming close to proving the existence of "shadow people", everyone decides this is something shocking and worthy of a cover-up, so Charlie gets fired by the radio station and the radio station people in interview refuse to answer why he got fired, and in the remaining "actual footage" deposition with Charlie, in which the actual Charlie is being questioned by the police for no clear reason, he is inexplicably told by his lawyer not to comment at all on the footage or the shadow people any further. What ever this movie was trying to go for by obsessing over the "real actual events" they are describing, they not only forgot to make an entertaining movie, but seemingly forgot what their own movie was even about, as the whole elements of the "Shadow People" and the "Spooky Telepathic Experiments" are not even remotely connected in any way, yet they are explicitly said to be connected in the film. It's like a film about the Manson Family murders telling us that Charles Manson was an alien, and this clue is somehow the key to solving the mystery of an entirely unrelated series of murders, and then providing no explanation and no clue as to how those two pieces of information even interact, much less how they are in any way connected.

Very few movies are done as well as Shadow People! Great story, and the fact that it is believable instills fear. The story moves along at a good pace. You MUST watch this flick through the first set of credits in order to get the last jolt! I have friends who refuse to watch this movie due to fear of the dark! I loved it, and my skin crawls with just the thought of it! Great job & thank you!

I have heard the scary stories of shadow people for quite a while now, so when I saw this movie I was very excited to delve right in. Unfortunately, I pretty disappointed.The film started out pretty well, giving us little glimpses of what was to come. However, the outcome wasn't presented well. The scares are far and few in between and only one is memorable.The writing and directing was good, even with the hidden messages throughout the film (the main reason I gave it a 4 instead of a 3). The acting, not so much. Sometimes it felt rehearsed and even in a few moments it was overacted, and to me this was a problem with the film. There were some interesting moments, but not enough to really keep my attention.My biggest problem with this film was a plot hole, and a pretty obvious one. I clicked on the "Contains Spoilers" box just in case, but I don't want to reveal anything if I can help it. All I will say is that the plot hole is with the film that they find, and the theory the doctor gives and how that it doesn't fit. To me that was the biggest downfall of this film.I didn't really enjoy it and probably wouldn't recommend it either.

Let me first start out by saying that I have never given a movie a 10 rating and that this 10 rating is not because of the quality of the movie or the acting skills of the actors but purely on the fact that I was scared shitless after watching it, so much that I was too afraid to go to sleep! This movie was scarier than "The Conjuring" but surprisingly never made it to the theaters! I now regret watching the movie because I tossed and turned all last night for fear of closing my eyes! I was so scared! This is ironic considering that I searched high and low for it after seeing a preview of it. I finally found it on Netflix (DVD)and wanted to watch it so bad that I subscribed to the DVD service! "Shadow People" is based on true events about a 1971 sleep study gone wrong where people died mysteriously in Kentucky after claiming to see shadow people. The best part about the movie is that throughout the movie, they show clips of the real people and their reactions to the first event (a call to a late night DJ show) that set things in motion! It's all over you tube but since it has been said that those who watch the videos die (in a ring-type manner), I have decided not to venture that way! I ain't ashamed to admit it...I'm just too scared!