Ghosts Dont Exist (2010)

Ghosts Don’t Exist is suppose to be a horror film which won the 2010 DC Independent Film Festival. It does raise the question as to what the other films were like that meant this was the best. The film focuses on Brett Wilson who is a ghost hunter when at the beginning of the film his wife passes away. The film then focuses on Wilson who is told that he has to produce one more episode of his TV show or the network will take legal action. First point to raise is that after spending ages convincing him to do it, the guy (presumably representing the network) is concerned that Wilson is going along with the final trip. The story moves to a house where some weird guy talks some rubbish and then kills himself. The rest of the film attempts to try and create some tension but fails miserably. People start to act strange and the filmmakers are trying to convince us that there is some paranormal force behind the behaviour changes they tend change the rules and say that the behaviour was cause by carbon monoxide.

The acting was terrible. I mean woeful. The lead (Phillip Roebuck) was very boring to watch and when the lead is that dull its very hard to let the film work. The others weren’t much better with every single actor on screen doing their level best to ruin the film. I thought that maybe the film title would be some clever plot twist but no. There was not one single ghost in the entire damn film. Ghosts Don’t Exist is the sort of movie that wouldn’t look out of place on Channel 5 in the middle of the afternoon. There is absolutely nothing scary whatsoever about this movie and I’m surprised it won anything apart from ‘Turkey of the Year’.

As of this moment, it has been reviewed 294 times on IMDB and it’s got an overall rating of 3.4 out of 10. I think 2.4 out of ten is probably the most realistic. Ghosts Don’t Exist is a poor excuse for a film and its not very often when I want to stop the film but this was one of those times but you have to see it in its entirety to judge something and having sat through this I can honestly say that I wish Ghosts do exist because it would have made this film more enjoyable.