Awesome Movie

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

BACK FROM HELL is an Italian stab at the found footage genre, concerning a group of friends who hole up at a historic house in the countryside and soon encounter a sinister demonic presence who takes over one of their own. The viewer is thereafter subject to endless shaky-cam footage, those clichéd camera 'problems', and lots of dodgy acting.The odd choice was made to shoot this in English with an Italian cast, all of whom struggle with thick accents and the vagueness of the script. I actually found the whining voices to be pretty annoying and I wanted to punch out the characters after about half an hour in their company. The cinematography is poor, with 90% of the film taking place in the dark so you can't see what's meant to be happening, and nothing much happens. BACK FROM HELL seems to go on forever until an abrupt and unsatisfying climax, and it really is a patience tester for audiences.

If this review contains a spoiler, it is that the whole movie is absolutely wretched. From the movie poster being totally inaccurate, to the description of the basic plot (Manor home? They stay in an old, run down monastery not even close to a manor home.) to the "priest" living next door (there WAS no next door, he also was in the monastery). The "pals" were constantly bickering, and the Ouija scene was just like every other Ouija scene in every other movie ("I don't want to do this." "But it's just a game!" Then after something nasty happens, "We shouldn't have done this!"). We get more bickering, more people wandering about seemingly in trances, and a very, very long possession and exorcism scene that ends just as anyone would expect if they've seen even a few possession movies. There were no surprises, the camera work was terrible and also trite (it cut out every time something started to happen) and the people were one-dimensional and boring. A total waste of the viewer's time.

I really like the setting in this film. The filming locations were just breathtaking and lush. Too bad the rest of the film couldn't compliment the mood the setting could've created. The acting was annoying and any attempt to try and creep us out was vanished from this film. First of all the film has false advertising with some women possessed and crawling on the ceiling. Dismiss the cover art folks because after the film was completed, I am still trying to find this scene. In fact there really are no possession scenes in this film at all. A lame attempt on Italy trying to cash in on the found footage genre and it fails miserably. I know the Italians have had a recent resurgence of late trying to get back to the glory days of the 1970's but sorry Italy, France has taken over.

I rented this from Redbox basically going by what I read, the title and a picture of a girl possessed. Nothing, I mean NOTHING happens that is even remotely close to what was expected. You won't see any girl crawling, you'll see a guy sitting on his knees moaning and snarling while a priest exorcises him and it seems to drag out forever; in fact it drags so far that you'll start laughing. It's just growl, snarl, growl, snarl, growl, snarl, that's it. The title is Back From Hell, you won't see any hell let alone see anything come back. This is so teadious of a movie. The characters spend an enormous amount of time arguing about religion, demons, aliens or whatever. One of the girls is pregnant and it leads to something spoilerish. I'll give you an idea of how scary this Italian hand held camera film is. They make an attempt to flee and very calmly check out the car batteries only to find them dead, why, because the lights were left on, which they state is impossible since they drove there in the daytime. This is a sure fire work of Satan. Something evil has turned on their headlights. Are you scared? Do yourself a favor, if you are suffering from insomnia then go rent this. After a good 10 hour snooze you'll thank me later.