Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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.

A group of fiends decide to rent a county side manor house for the 4-day holiday weekend, but its not long before unexplained supernatural forces leave one of their number seemingly possessed . A priest that happens to live next door rushes to help in this Italian offering to the booming, some would say played out, 'found footage' horror film, that I saw via Redbox under the U.S. title of "Back From Hell"Reasonably well-acted even if the story is a tad trite. Other pluses are beautiful scenery and a few,albeit admittedly seldom, tense scenes. This is a tad offset by an ending that ,while I shall not spoil, leaves something to be desired. All in all, the film was fairly watchable but ultimately forgettable