This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Set in a suicide forest in Japan (but filmed in Canada), it is the location that elevates this film beyond the ordinary. It looks wonderful, eerie, beautiful and is effectively lit.The characters unadvisedly exploring the forest are a fairly likable bunch of teens (which isn't always the case) – there are the 'nice' kids (Maiko, Kyle, Terry and Amber) and there are the 'idiots' (Craig, Brody and Skylar - who think it's a good joke to pretend to be a hanging corpse) – but as it turns out, the 'idiots' are more entertaining than their more saintly counterparts, especially as Maiko is, sadly, the least interesting of them all. Inexplicable, gory deaths and imaginative set-pieces abound.The storyline doesn't appear to make any sense other than our group of young friends are all victims of 'a curse'. At one time it seems as if the police are involved, but events ensure they are as much victims of the curse as anyone. And yet, as the final reel reveals, they are at least in league with the evil. The confusion starts to become enjoyable toward the end, as if there is a dangerous chaos on display, but the film ends before this takes a satisfactory hold.

The idea was quite good. It's about American college students in Japan traveling to the notorious "suicide forest" to make a documentary for a film class, only to be haunted and stalked the the spirits of the people who died there after a couple of friends desecrate a death site. And the forest chosen as the backdrop is haunting and beautifully photographed. But nothing else is done right. It's followed by a bunch of gory killings which occur with little logic or reason. Many victims are people who have done nothing to wrong the dead. In the end, it's just another excuse to watch young people get slaughtered in gruesome ways. I felt cheated.

A genuinely creepy movie that captures some of the best bits of "Blair Witch" but with very good acting particularly from the leads.I like the fact that it captures some of the Japanese horror sensibility with an American spin.The scenes towards the end are genuinely creepy and the living dead have never been so unwelcoming.I genuine recommend this film which is better than the overrated "Shrooms" and the last "Hatchet" which did not deliver.As a film maker myself (www.joanproductions.com) I am currently making a horror film and know how hard it is to pull it off and I think this director did and extremely good job. Not and excellent job

Despite the title of this review sounding like a shot at this movie, I have to say this is a great film.I can't say going into this movie I had low expectations because I knew it was directed by Steven R. Monroe and I'll be the first to say I love his directing style. I really enjoyed his earlier works such as Sasquatch Mountain, Ogre, and Ice Twisters which I feel a lot of people looked down on based solely on the titles or some shoddy CGI.What Grave Halloween has in common with Steven R. Monroe movies is that it has a solid script, great character development, and some impressive cinematography (for the low budget).What separates Grave Halloween from Steven R. Monroe's earlier works is that you rarely notice you're watching a low-budget film when sitting through this movie. There is very little CGI in this film (there are some CGI flies near the end), but it's at least passable. The director took advantage of the budget by incorporating some very gruesome, even frighteningly realistic practical gore effects. Steven R. Monroe also makes great use of the setting of this movie, which appears to be filmed all in one location, by using incredible overhead shots of the forest and just beautiful cinematography of the area in general.Speaking of the setting, one of the reasons I was able to feel so immersed in this movie was because of how authentic it looked. I didn't check to see where this movie was filmed, but if it was filmed in America or some English speaking country then the director did an excellent job of hiding that. Of course, this is coming from a guy who doesn't speak a word of Korean (this movie takes place in Korea) so for all I know it could be in another eastern Asian country, but regardless it was a very believable setting for the story. The details such as the fact the car the characters took to get to the Suicide Forest had its steering wheel on the right side of the car did numbers to make this feel more like a story and less like a script if that makes sense.The tone of this movie is really chilling and works so well with the limited resources in both the budget and setting. I stated earlier that this movie has great cinematography and that's true, but this movie isn't just one big, beautiful string of cinematography either because that would take away from the tone. This movie is extremely atmospheric and has the perfect amount of lighting in both the day and night shots to create a consistently eerie vibe throughout.As the story progressed I felt more and more invested in the plot like I HAD to know what happened next. The first half of this movie is well- paced and exciting, but it's not until the second half that this film starts throwing some twists at you and really starts to pull you toward the edge of your seat.All that being said, I'll then go to say this: I think this is Steven R. Monroe's best Syfy Original Movie he's directed (but not necessarily his best all together). However, I will give one slight criticism, and that is that this movie didn't quite seem as complete as some of his others. Steven R. Monroe's films such as Sasquatch Mountain, Ogre, and Left in Darkness all did a phenomenal job in delivering closure to the story with a limited budget. Grave Halloween, while I did like its ending in a way, didn't feel as satisfying as some of Steven R. Monroe's other works. There seemed to be some loose ends that went untied when this movie was over.The ending is up to interpretation I suppose, and the small amount of disappointment had with the ending is no reason why you shouldn't check this B-Movie gem out for its solid entertainment and genuine creepiness throughout most of it.I highly recommend this movie for horror fans. I personally think it's a much more well-made movie than recent theatrical horror movies such as Insidious or Sinister, but see it for yourself.9/10