Greystone Park (2012)

Do not attempt to adjust your TV. This is not a glitch or an error. It is part of the movie; insidious flashing of darkness the whole time.In the end I could not stand the bickering anymore. Anyone whom reads my posts knows what a pet peeve I have for incessant bickering in place of where good dialogue could be.

I ordered this movie knowing about the bad reviews, but wanted to see it anyway. To me the acting wasn't all that bad and from a scale of 1 to 10, I give a 5 just for the acting itself. The reason I ordered this movie is because I like horror movies dealing with abandon mental hospitals. But I was disappointed with the camera shots and it constantly moving and shaking where you can't get a good look inside the hospital. I thought the movie was filmed entirely inside Greystone Hospital and I found out it wasn't. Another reason I ordered the movie is because Greystone is in danger of being demolish and there is a group trying to save and preserve it. I have to say other abandon mental hospitals movies like Grave Encounters and Session 9 is better than this one.

I'm going to keep this short. Three friends decide to spend the night exploring the supposedly local haunted hot spot, this one being an abandoned lunatic asylum, and scary stuff goes down.That pretty much sums it up. Famed director Oliver Stone's son Sean takes the helm as co-writer, director, and co-star in his first movie. His father, whom I suspect is the only way this movie got made in the first place, even has a cameo playing himself in the beginning.While its not the scariest movie to come out, Greystone Park kept my interest throughout it's short run time. Overall the movie was a decent effort but you won't be missing out on anything if you decide to put it back on the shelf. In fact, it seems vaguely like it's trying to be an artsy remake of the more superior Grave Encounters. The actors play themselves ala The Blair Witch Project and there are enough surprisingly startling images that pop up on screen that add to a fairly realistic feel to the movie. The main problem I had was that you never get to know the three leads so you simply don't care what happens to them. We get that Antonella and Sean have a thing for one another but you've got to ask yourself why? She's pretty but she's such a dull Mary Sue character. He's good looking but he talks in such a condescending manner to the people around him that are supposed to be his friends that it makes him come across as just another spoiled Hollywood brat coasting on Daddy's successful coattails.Despite my misgivings, I recommend it maybe for a late night watch if you have nothing better to do. Just be prepared to be scratching your head at the ending. Trust me, it makes absolutely no sense.

I don't get all the bad reviewsI thought greystone was well written, acted and shot. Got a little confusing towards the end but overall terrifying.

A mixture of humor and horror that takes the viewer back to his childhood's daring ventures into macabre and spooky ruins that lie at the edge of everybody's juvenile neighborhood: at one inviting, forbidding, terrifying, more than a little dangerous. This one, though, more creepy for having a known/imagined truly gruesome past and being unimaginably enormous and dark and filled with...

This was OK at most.Obviously the directors father would play a small role in this which is Oliver stone. That was a tiny Easter egg basically.The sousaphone man plays an incredible role. Any time something even slightly scary happens his musical score plays a wild tone. Gets really annoying really fast.And they kept up with the weird flashbacks to historical documents way too much early on.Scary environment. I guess.

I thought if I stayed long enough, it would redeem the previous time spent watching. Nope

The film gives the audience the definite feeling of 'being there for the ride'. Most of this film is quite spontaneous (unplanned!). The sudden nature of most of the happenings gives the viewer very jarring emotional starts!! Edge of your seat entertainment.