Best movie ever!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It would be easy to just label this one a generic ghost story wearing a huge J-horror influence on it's sleeve, but on the other hand the way in which the filmmakers throw absolutely everything at the screen in order to scare (or at least entertain) the viewer reminded me of late eighties Italian horror films like Ghosthouse and House of Lost Souls. Boo even has a creepy ghost clown, just like Ghosthouse! How can you not fail not to not dislike the Boo? You cannot can't! No children being killed by ghostly washing machines though.As per fecking usual, some annoying teens (big jerk jock/fanny rat, his girlfriend the possibly psychic THING, jerk geek guy who's being used by slaggy slag slag (who's banging fanny rat on the side) all head off to an abandoned hospital on Halloween to have the crap scared out of them by jerk jock's mate Emmet, who's already at the hospital setting up all kinds of scares until the ghosts who actually live there get annoyed. From there on in it's a spot the reference festival, but an enjoyable one.Additionally you have a cop who's keeping an eye on his mate who's gone in to find his sister he went into the hospital with her mates the night before. So they all end up in there too. And there's Dee Wallace Stone too. You'll know her from the Frighteners. You know, that film about the ghosts and that.What makes the film entertaining is the non-stop barrage of ghostly happenings (and flashbacks, and visions etc). Loads of stuff that'll remind you of other films, but then again it all goes by so quickly that I found it entertaining. I can't praise Ghosthouse and such like and put down this one.

Make no mistake, this isn't a great movie. Don't come in with expectations set by the classics, come in with expectations for a B movie, and you'll get that plus a little something extra. Boo does a great job of breaking pace with most horror movies, not taking itself as seriously as better ones, while still having entertaining scenes. More or less, you could say it's a popcorn flick.On it's good side it has a few characters that act decently -Jessie, Freddy, Caitlin, and to a lesser extent Allan, and two characters who play their parts great- Arlo and Nurse Russel. The first four, at least, aren't too terrible, and at best, can make scenes comedic, interesting or simply making them work. The second two are great for different reasons: Arlo being an aging cop with a tendency for great one liners and making otherwise boring scenes hilarious. Nurse Russel plays her part in a quite serious tone, with the twist involving her at the end giving the film more of a purpose in hindsight. Boo also has some few genuinely creepy moments near the start of the film, making use of Dutchess and the abandoned hospital to build some suspense and tension, and a clown scene that won't be kind to Coulrophobic viewers.On it's bad side, the two great characters don't get all too many lines though they make the most of them, the rest of the cast that weren't mentioned tend to sway between average (for a B movie) and slightly below average, and specifically for Kevin so bad it's hard to decide if he's trying to make his character that bad or if it's the actor. The creepy moments of the film unfortunately are mostly found, as said, in the first part of the movie. There's also some notable horror movie logic, though at least no one suggested "I think it might be best if we split up".Overall, this movie can be entertaining and funny if you don't take it too seriously, has some small spots of originality, it's own B movie charm and some of the best one liners to come from a B movie in quite a while.

"Boo" really doesn't deserve to be flunked. Compared to a lot of other low-budget nonsense, "Boo" plays it more seriously and does a good job in creating an eerie atmosphere. The special effects and cinematography is pretty decent. The setting is creepy and some killings are pretty splattery (including ghostly imagery and some jump scares). The plot isn't anything original since it's just about a group of friends spending Halloween night in an abandoned building (a hospital, in this case), but it's all handled well. Dee Wallace-Stone has some enjoyable screen time in it. "Boo" turned out a pretty likable indie-horror effort. Nothing innovating and the acting was just so-so, but good enough and certainly worth a watch if you're in a not too demanding mood.

I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from Boo. The title was pretty non-descript, and the box was covered in the kind of hyperbole every horror movie released in the west has had all over it's sleeve since 1976. About 10 minutes in, Boo was looking like it was going to plough forward like Dead Scared or the Convent without a sense of humour, and I was starting to get a bit bored.However, 20 minutes in the cast got into the haunted hospital, then it really picked up steam. The interior direction in the film is great, the hospital looks fantastic, almost as good as the hospital sets from Session 9 and Silent Hill, and the movie's atmosphere gets really tight and tense once the obligatory pack of kids is inside the building and the lights are down.Boo has a lot of little shocks, it's steadily paced so after that initial 10 minute lull you keep stopping and starting every five minutes or so. It doesn't have a lot in terms of scare set-pieces, but it's fast pacing and creepy atmosphere make up for the lack of truly terrifying scenes.In honesty, some of the movie is a little generic. If I see a post-Ring American psychological-horror that DOESN'T have a scary little kid wandering around it'll be a miracle. Thankfully they don't waste the cliché here and the little girl is pretty spooky, and responsible for what's probably the best scare in the film when one of the cast gets trapped in a room with her .The cast aren't magnificent either. The main bad guy is more irritating and whiny than fearsome and spooky, and aside from the lead girl the rest of the cast are amiable but completely disposable.Still, that's not necessarily important in a horror movie, what's key is that the film stays atmospheric and has good pacing and tension. Boo has all that and then some, so honestly you can overlook most of it's flaws.