Was it a wise idea for me to watch a movie about idiots breaking into the ruins of a haunted hospital, the day before I was going to go snoop around the ruins of an abandoned hospital? No. In my defense, a) this movie was not at all scary, and b) I'm pretty sure I have more brainpower than every character in the movie put together, so it's fine.
It feels like it's meant to be a splattercore horror film. Lots of corn syrup blood. When the spirit of the child molester that's trying to escape the hospital possesses someone, their body starts breaking down and being covered in ooze. If you shoot them with even one bullet, the body explodes, which means more corn syrup blood.
At the same time, it feels like a parody of those sorts of movies. One of the characters is a cop, that used to play a vampire hunter in blaxploitation flicks. His trademark was to strike a match, then kick it into the vampire's afro to light them on fire. A trick he tries during this movie. The acting is overall extremely wooden, especially the lead character's idiot boyfriend, who oversells everything with his gestures and speech patterns to the point where, again, I'm not sure he isn't exaggerating the typical idiot jock boyfriend in these movies for comedic effect.
Except, it's not trying to be funny. Again, the ghost is a child molester that tried to force his escape by starting a fire, except the head nurse refused to unlock the doors, so she, the diddler, and all the other patients on that floor burned to death as a result. That's not exactly a laugh riot, you know? The lead character is her daughter, who gets psychic visions for some reason. The cop's there because his old partner's son broke in looking for his missing sister and her friends (unrelated to the other idiot teens).
Disconnect between intent and execution, I think.
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