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Well Deserved Praise

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The Booth brothers have had a long career in soft-core porn, but in this stinker, they've branched out into "documentaries" about the paranormal. I put "documentaries" in quotes because usually documentarians at least make some effort to depict real events. I guess stars Keith Age, John Zaffis and Steven LaChance (billed as an "extreme haunting specialist" whatever that is) did actually visit the locations depicted in the film, but that seems to be where the connection to reality ends.There is so much wrong with this film, I'm tempted just to put it in a list. I did, in fact, make a list as I was watching it, and Googled some of the claims made, just to see if it added up. Some of what they said actually was factual, but a large portion of the information presented was simply fabricated. It doesn't start well when the star, paranormal grandstander Keith Age, interviews a woman in a cemetery who seems to be some sort of expert. You'd think she'd dress a little nicer, but hey. Age asks her leading questions about the local orphanage, rather than getting actual information from her. Later, footage from old silent films is shown in such a way that the viewer is led to believe that this is actual footage from these old orphanage. The filmmakers also present the fact that many children died in this orphanage as evidence of some sort of wrongdoing, ignoring the fact that many children died even in loving homes before antibiotics were available. Also, the "unmarked mass graves" Age talks about date to 1918, a year the filmmakers and Age didn't bother to research. It was the year of the flu epidemic that killed millions.Then there's all the footage of various video and audio tricks and effects, done like a goth-metal music video. My particular favorite is that of a Yamaha audio mixer with all the sliders mysteriously zipping down to zero. (the sliders on Yamaha digital mixers do that when you reset them). The bros Booth also need to hire a better script supervisor, because their titles and other text are rife with misspellings ("he 'through' her doll into the fireplace"), odd capitalization and misuse of its/it's ("The US Military occupied the building, where it interrogated 'it's' Nazi POWs."). Which brings me to another point. The Booths play fast and loose with the facts. At the Pythian Castle in St. Louis, a title says POWs were kept there, but Wikipedia and the castle's own web site tell a different story. The army used the castle as an officers' club, and prisoners were kept at a hospital behind the building.Speaking playing fast and loose with facts, one Rosemary Ellen Guiley is interviewed in the film, and introduced as a Ph.D. That's a pretty straightforward piece of information, so I went to her web site. There is no mention of her earning a Ph.D. Seems like a pretty good credential to leave off your bio. To confirm, I went to Dissertation Abstracts, a database that lists pretty much every Ph.D dissertation published in US. No Rosemary Guiley. I found Carl Sagan and Newt Gingrich's dissertations, though! I could go on, but it's really tiring going over all the "evidence" they fabricated. I realize that they may have dramatized some of it for effect, but there really is a lot that's faked, and to me that's fraud. If you don't have adequate evidence, don't make a documentary. Reality is interesting enough with fakery. So, unless you like cheese ball effects, portly paranormal investigators dressed in paramilitary fashion and a lot of misinterpreted BS masquerading as "evidence" steer clear of this turd. It might be worth watching for sheer ridiculous entertainment, though; a "Plan 9 From Outer Space" of paranormal documentaries.

Children of the Grave did seem interesting, so I checked it out, and if I were to be honest I am still not entirely sure what to make of it. Sure it is reasonably entertaining, with a resolutely creepy atmosphere particularly in the Zombie Road segment, great shots of the graveyard and buildings, the whole orphanage/lost children idea was interesting and did make me emotional thinking about it and reasonably convincing child actors. On the other hand, there were a number of times where I didn't buy the "evidence"'s credibility(especially the supposed ghost evidence), coming across as vague, the editing jumps around all over the place, there are scenes that felt like overlong filler rather than evidence and the music is overbearing. All in all, not a bad way to pass the time I suppose, but I am still perplexed as to what I actually think of Children of the Grave. 5/10 Bethany Cox

I labored through this program for two hours wondering what was the point? This show was evidently a forum for two guys, the Brooke's brothers(?), upset over learning about mass graves where hundreds of unnamed orphans were buried in numbered graves. They try to weave into this message comments by paranormal "experts" and writers, snippets of paranormal investigations at abandoned orphanages, graveyards, and a road (Zombie Road), in several different states, along with a supposed news interview of some woman and a presentation at a high school. Confused? You should be. And that's not all. They have little children actors portraying abused and neglected children and or their spirits. There are numerous EVPS (electronic voice phenomena) of what is supposed to be either children or their abusers. This gibberish is interpreted for us in order to fit into the theme of orphan hauntings. Sifted throughout are antique photos and vintage video of children, supposedly orphans, and old photos of ghost children. I need not add that the latter were made in an era when the faking of ghost photos was rampant. I'm still not certain what Zombie Road near St. Louis and a photo of shadows had to do with orphans buried in Indiana. The film makers here tried to do two things at once: 1. present an expose of the poor treatment of orphans in America's past and 2. take viewers on a paranormal investigation of several reputedly haunted sites. They needed to focus on one or the other. Some parting shots: I couldn't stand the dialog mostly spoken through a tin can (or so it seemed) and couldn't they choose a narrator who didn't sound like he had a speech impediment? This one wasn't ready to come off the editing table. Could have been condensed to fifteen minutes, maybe thirty with commercial breaks.

Riiight, at one point, they read an "actual letter" supposedly written by a child orphan.In that you have sentences like "Little did I know"... something along the lines of "I didn't know this great country had its own concentration camps".Quite elaborate and cultivated for an orphan... child... many many years ago. They had good history and English language lessons in those orphanages!That was around the middle of the movie. I would have quit watching it earlier if I had something better to do, but had done my share of Youtube that day already, and needed to watch something longer than 45 seconds. But after this very bad mistake of the "actual letter" I completely disconnected.These directors know nothing about movies or even about how to make a constructive, credible narrative. Also, they are not objective.I think this would be better classified as a MOCKUMENTARY, if it was this bad on purpose.