That was an excellent one.

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Definitely one of the worst horror films I have ever seen... Don't waste your time!

This movie is a perfect example of "second generation" Found Footage, with good quality camera shots, frequent dynamic movements and a lot of frantic action. However, in order to maintain the narrative expedients coherent, it would be necessary to find a suitable justification for them. While in movies such as those from the Paranormal Activity franchise the presence of portable cameras is legitimated by the plot itself, in "The Gallows" and many others F.Fs, the public often ends up wondering : "why are they carrying a camera right now? is it realistic to go on filming while in danger or under pressure?". This important gap between reality and fiction creates a feeling of uneasiness in the most careful among the viewers, discouraging them from concentrating completely on the movie. Another small observation : there are a few attempts of creating humor, I believe, in the first scenes. It has become quite a tradition in modern horror (I remember the beginning of "Grave Encounters 2" or "Cloverfield"), but in my opinion not all the habits need to be respected. This confusion of genres, this mix of feelings is dangerous and cannot bring positive consequences : it only spoils the atmosphere, which is an essential precondition for Horrors, and also the most difficult and unstable element for writers to deal with. To sum up, I would say that "The Gallows" rests quietly on a pile of far worse Found Footages, but does not surely belong to the most exciting and surprising examples of the genre.

When I go to review a film I look to look at the reviewers who loved and hated the film to see if I have missed something when I particularly disliked a film. I was surprised to read the following about The Gallows,"This is without a doubt, quite literally, the scariest movie I have ever seen! The Poltergeist remake scared me, but this terrified me. I still have a pit in my stomach, and my heart is still thumping as I type this." this poster must go through life in perpetual fear and basic household objects must send them into spasms of terror, looking at the other reviews the are children cartoons so that might explain it."I won't give away the end, but know that it is one of the greatest twist endings I have ever seen! Bravo!""Had no idea of what kind of terror it offered"I am sorry but these must be contrived reviews, this is truly an awful, lazy film. Found footage has been flogged to death and then flogged again. This has a ridiculously contrived story line and most of the action you see is in semi or permanent darkness with the occasionally shouted "awesom" or "dude" for dialogue, it is shot in the headacre inducing hand held camera. There was nothing in the film to give me the slightest scare, the characters are flimsy and you just want the ghoul to kill them and end this pathetic film. You can tell how lazy the film is as they use the actors real first name and maybe I should give it 2 as they unintentionally introduced humour when one of the actors repeatedly gets another characters name wrong, this takes some doing as they are using their real names. Not scary, nothing, avoid.

There are so many found footage movies that suck. And this is one of them. I do not find these movie to all that real. Most just badly written and badly acted. I would be OK if there were more good found footage movies. It is just so many like this one. Are badly written and badly acted. And have an awful ending. This movie is not scary at all. It is about a hunted school. And it is not scary at all. It got a 4.3 which it not a good rating. But this movie is so bad. 4.3 is overrating it. It stink so mush it should be lower then 4.3. That does not really show just how bad this movie is. This is one of the worst horror movies of all time.