Ghost Team One (2013) Reviews

• Buy some paint......

  DocVW2013-10-23

  Okay, I like oddball, off the wall, low budget movies. I can find humor in places most people don't and I don't require drugs or alcohol to do it. For this film I just don't get it. Another reviewer compared this to Naked Gun....., wonder what roll he had in the making/producing of this movie??? Save yourself, this starts out slow and stays there for 90% of the film. Yes there are a couple funny moments and when the "climax" arrives it makes you chuckle, but that's it. You will never get this time back in your life, so seriously go buy some paint and watch it dry, you will thank me. I gave it 2 stars as I am in a generous mood today :)

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• Nothing out of the ordinary here...

  paul_haakonsen2017-04-26

  I was lured in by the movie cover/poster and with the enticement of this being a comedy with a supernatural twist. However, I had not heard about the movie prior to finding it and picking it up. But still, a horror comedy with a ghostly element, what is there not to like? Right, well I must start off by saying that "Ghost Team One" is as such not an overly bad movie. It just didn't turn out to be what I had expected. Sure, there are some good moments and some good enough laughs to be found here and there. But the movie as a whole just didn't turn out to be all that impressive or interesting. What worked in favor of the movie was the characters and the acting talents recruited to portray these characters. Sure, the characters were generic to the core, but there was just still something lovable and funny about them. I will say that it was Carlos Santos who carried most of the movie singlehandedly. The story in "Ghost Team One" was probably what killed the enjoyment for me, because it didn't turn out to be a rather interesting or captivating storyline. So writers Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli hardly gave directors Ben Peyser and Scott Rutherford all that much to work with. And that also transcended onto the acting talents, because they had little to work with in terms of a fulfilling script. "Ghost Team One" is hardly an effects movie, and makes use of very few effects actually. But then again, it is not the type of movie that has to rely on special effects. Now, there were the occasional hilarious scene here and there, but they were not enough to levitate the movie out of the mediocre fast lane. I managed to sit through the entire movie, although I was pressed at times in terms of focusing on the movie and concentrating on the movie. Once you have seen "Ghost Team One" the first time, chances are slim to none that you will return to watch it again.

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• You slept with a ghost?...

  FlashCallahan2013-11-17

  In order to impress a girl, two roommates set out to make a documentary about a murder that took place in their house. The girl thinks that the victim's ghost is still there, so the two guys think that making a movie with her will get them somewhere with her. But after they set cameras up around the house, things begin to happen that seem supernatural. They realise that the ghost is real, and its become smitten with them.... So the film has been released in the US for just over a month, and here in the UK, it's already in Netflix, so my expectations were understandably very low. And even though they were low, I never laughed once, or even smiled, because it just wasn't interesting, and to parody the found footage movie is not a very good choice, because the majority of them have become self parody (see PA4 for example). The two leads are annoying, think a really cheap version of Harold and Kumar, and your there, the rest of the cast are just as bad, especially the flat mate who gets possessed. It picks up a little in the last five minutes, but you have to trawl through a load of old cobblers beforehand. One of the topics on this films message board is claiming that people are voting fraudulently because the score is so low. I've seen it, and I know why its so low, it's pretty awful...

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• Ghost Team One: Odd little film

  Platypuschow2019-03-13

  Ghost Team one is filmed in the documentary format but thankfully not another generic brain dead found footage feature. 90% comedy 10% horror it tells the story of two room mates who appear to have a haunting in their flat. Bringing in their new mysterious Latino friend they set about installing cameras to see whats really going on. The movie is silly, with obnoxious characters, childish dialogue and not much in the way of content. It makes up for this with a degree of charm originality and unexpected laughs. Motivated by sexual desire this ghost brings lots of very puerile humor to the table. Sex, erections, boobs and spectral copulation make up the most of the comedy themes, yet somehow this works better than you'd expect. If you can get past just how annoying one of the leads is then you might find yourself having some fun here despite it being plain silly and with a rather cringe inducingly daft finale. You can do worse, but don't expect much in the realms of horror. The Good: Some laughs to be had The Bad: Some really obnoxious characters Dodgy ending

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• Highly enjoyable

  bbickley13-921-586642015-01-04

  So this low budget feature actually impressed me a lot. Somewhat parodying, Paranormal Activity and other films that came after it, the movie gives the genre a frat boy spin to it with four dudes living in a haunted house with a ghost who seems to be attracted to sexual energy, and two of the four boys attempt to produce a documentary about it in order to impress a hot chick who seems to be oddly interested in the haunting. Put together really well, the characters were really cool and interesting. While mostly trying to be funny the movie did have some eerie ghost story moments that I loved. The three main actors on the poster had really good chemistry and played their frat boy stereotypes really well. If you are a fan of the found footage genre, than I would put this on the list.

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