It was like watching a school project... Not sure how I made it through the whole thing.
Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
One of the countless uber cheap found footage horror films, exemplifying everything wrong with the genre while simultaneously being totally forgettable, Paranormal Prison follows an amateur film crew who are investigating spooky goings on in an abandoned prison for, what else, a Youtube channel pitting science against scepticism. Most of the runtime is dedicated to exposition about either the prison, the equipment they're using or the ghosts they're supposedly investigating. The film spends so much time discussing and building up one ghost in particular Mary Beth Flake, and then has her do virtually nothing, besides appearing as a shadow, popping up in front of stationary cameras as if she knows what they are. She's essentially a paranormal McGuffin, since the most tangible threat posed comes from, and I'm dead serious here, an evil mannequin. The twist involving the security guard is seriously weak sauce, since it really makes no difference to the story. Also, for reasons I can't be bothered to work out, the guard is ADRed throughout the entire film, and not once do we physically see him speaking. Every time he says anything he's either turned away from the camera or his mouth is covered. It's pointless to say anything more, because this is not a film worthy of analysis or dissection. It'll be ignored by those who haven't seen it and forgotten by those who have.
