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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

So I watched a paranormal investigator style horror movie today, who would have guessed that? The acting I won't say is bad, instead I'll say it's green... at first I thought it was going to be one of those low budget religious orientated horrors where they preach mental illness is actually paranormal, something along those lines, but it doesn't go that way, and ultimately it turned out to not be a bad story at all, and actually rather enjoyable once you make it past the cacophony of the amateur which many would find insurmountable... I say give this one a shot. Movie: SPIRIT STALKERS Where: Amazon My Rating: 3/5 or 7/10

SPIRIT STALKERS is yet another found footage-style horror movie about a paranormal TV crew investigating a haunted house. It's just a normal suburban home, too, not some creepy, genuinely atmospheric abandoned location. What follows is an exercise in boredom, I suppose stylistically similar to the likes of GHOSTWATCH but by far the inferior movie. The stilted performances are an embarrassment and there's only one decent scare in the whole thing, involving worms.

This is a contribution to a very tired genre. The haunted house flick. A woman is experiencing paranormal phenomena;i.e. doors closing by themselves, strange noises, night terrors, ghostly voices. Because she was diagnosed with schizophrenia,and was on continued treatment for it, she shrugged it off. Until one too many things drove her over the edge. Believe it or not, it was finding her just folded laundry strewn about the room that did it. Her daughter contacts spirit stalkers, who come in to 'save the day'.Unfortunately, she had contacted Miss Louise, a genuine psychic, who comes to her house and tells her that there is a deep evil there. She must take herself and her daughter away. She will 'cleanse' the house, for a fee ($5000). Ex hubby is peeved, and worried.So the spirit stalkers come and catch 'real footage' of a 'ghost'. They also catch EVP evidence. After Reuben, the lead spirit stalker, tells Gloria, the woman, that the spirits won't hurt her, he offers to put her and her daughter Kelly up in a hotel for a couple of nights so that the show can do some follow up. Before mom leaves, she has to go back for the keys. Unfortunately, the spirits-the old man who had a stroke and killed his much younger wife, the murderous mom and her two butchered kids and the dead younger wife-infest her and she kills her daughter then herself.Reuben discovers that his crew conspired with the psychic to 'plant' a ghost, which turns out to be the psychic's granddaughter. Reuben confronts his crew and lays it on the line; they had driven Gloria insane with their shenanigans, and are therefore responsible for the deaths of Gloria and Kelly.Unfortunately, the ghosts, which turn out to be real, take advantage of the mental weaknesses of the crew and slaughter them all.This was a frightfully dull movie. The actor playing Reuben was the only one who seemed to actually care about his performance. The rest of the cast was lackluster and bland. The 'father' came off as gay, if you can believe it. All in all a very disappointing view.

Spirit Stalkers is an intelligent group of investigators who work together to explain away claims of the paranormal. As Rueben (the leader of this group) explains, "You don't prove the existence of a ghost by actually going out and finding one... you prove the existence by ruling out every other logical explanation there is..." The problem is that these folks are so good at their jobs that never once have they ever encountered anything that can be classified as a spirit from "the other side." This would not be such an issue if it wasn't for the fact that they perform their duties in front of the camera, for the entertainment of the viewers that tune-in to their reality television show "Spirit Stalkers." Their ratings are on the line week after week.Gloria Talman has recently become the owner of a large, older home and has a dream of perhaps turning it into a bed and breakfast. Maybe she should have checked with the spirits haunting the estate before signing on the dotted line. Maybe it is just the house settling. Perhaps there is just a draft. Whatever is going on, it's enough to drive anyone to the brink of calling in "The Ghost Busters." Of course Ghost Busters is just a movie but Spirit Stalkers are real, plus they have a proved track record.Gloria's home may be just what this team has been hoping for. The disturbances in this house may defy any logical explanation. If so, then what we are left with is a Spirit Stalkers dream come true. Some dreams are better left to the sleeping.Spirit Stalkers is a Big Biting Pig Productions masterpiece. Technically superior to any BBP Production that has come before. Which is saying something, since all of their films are setting the standard for the independent horror/thriller genre. Once again they raise the bar and put you on the edge of your seat. So if that is where you like to be I say go ahead and take a seat in front of Spirit Stalkers as they try to explain this one away.