History Film / GraveEncounters

* HellIsThatNoise: [[spoiler: Lance uses the voice detector device near the end and asks the building a question, in complete silence. When he plays it back, what he hears as a response sounds like hundreds of voices screaming and laughing maniacally. Random screaming and laughing can be heard with increasing frequency as the movie goes on. No wonder the characters become more and more uneasy... even if they can't consciously hear it, there were hundreds of voices around them all the time.]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Early on, T.C. gets a phone call from his partner and child, so puts the camera down to answer it. As he talks, [[spoiler: the wheelchair behind him moves by itself ever so slightly.]]

* AlwaysNight: [[spoiler: After everyone checks the time they realize it's the afternoon, 1 pm, yet there's no light whatsoever. It is implied that the building is in some sort of dimension of its own]].

* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler: The hospital itself. When the team decides to bash the front door open after a few hours, they find that it just leads to another corridor. When someone suggests that they just got confused, Sasha finds the same markings on the door as the entrance door did-- proving that it WAS the same door. A staircase to the roof ends with a wall, and corridors changing as they're walking through it. Time itself is warped inside the hospital; the camera timer shows the minutes passing faster and faster, and near the end of the movie time is moving so fast the numbers are just flashing by incomprehensibly.]]

* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler: The hospital itself. The front door only leads to another corridor, the staircase to the roof ends with a wall, corridors changing as they're walking through it, etc. Time itself is warped inside the hospital; the camera timer shows the minutes passing faster and faster, and near the end of the movie time is moving so fast the numbers are just flashing by incomprehensibly.]]

* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler: The hospital itself. The front door only leads to another corridor, the staircase to the roof ends with a wall etc.]]

* AfraidOfBlood: Nobody wants to be near [[BloodBath the bathtub of blood]] in the bathroom [[spoiler: (except Matt but he's insane at this point)]] so naturally everyone wants to leave. [[spoiler: It's made even worse when Matt won't get away from the tub and T.C. gets pulled in by something, whatever it was, resulting in him vanishing. They even tip the tub over, he's gone.]]

''Grave Encounters'' is a 2010 indie [[FoundFootageFilms found footage]] horror film directed by the Vicious Brothers. It documents the fate of the crew of a ''GhostHunters''-esque reality show which surveys haunted locations in the hopes of capturing ghostly activity on film. A prologue mentions that this particular episode, centering around [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything an abandoned mental hospital]] [[{{Session 9}} in the Danvers County area]], was to be the sixth, and the raw footage shows how the crew initially play up the spooky factor to increase the atmosphere. [[ItGotWorse However, they soon find themselves in the middle of a nightmare as the sun goes down...]]

* ItGotWorse: [[spoiler: You might think the ghosts have reached a high-level when they turn the hospital into a [[AlienGeometries labyrinth of looping hallways]]. They haven't.]]

* SpookyPhotographs: After the first few scares seem to have died down, Lance frustratedly starts taking photos in an attempt to grab some more paranormal evidence. He does.

** The final photograph listed under SpookyPhotographs below.

* SpookyPhotographs: After the first few scares seem to have died down, Lance frustratedly starts taking photos in an attempt to grab some more paranormal evidence. The first photo may qualify, as one can see "orbs" (balls of light which some believe to be ghostly in origin) floating in it. The second is slightly less ambiguous, showing a human-shaped mist in a doorway. The third [[spoiler: is much more blatant, to put it simply]].

* EndlessCorridor: The service tunnels are supposed to have turn-offs going to various buildings, and be only about a quarter-mile long. Towards the end, there's nothing but a single, long corridor that Lance and Sasha walk down for hours.

* [[spoiler: DarknessEqualsDeath: and how. Any character moving around on their own or out of shot or view is effectively doomed.]]

* [[spoiler: TheEndOrIsIt?: The bodies of the crew are never stated to be found, and it's uncertain if the crew has become a part of the dead walking in the hospital or are gone, but it's certain that whatever is in the hospital is still there.]]

* HopeSpot: The crew finds a door with an EXIT sign[[spoiler: ... but every time it opens on yet ''another'' hospital corridor.]]

''Grave Encounters'' is a 2010 indie horror film shot in the First Person Camera Style about the crew of a ''GhostHunters'' -like reality show who surveys haunted locations in the hopes of capturing ghostly activity on film. A prologue mentions that this particular episode, centering around [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything an abandoned mental hospital]] [[{{Session 9}} in the Danvers County area]], was to be the sixth, and the raw footage shows how they play up the spooky factor to increase the atmosphere. However, they soon find themselves in the middle of a nightmare as the sun goes down...

* MedicalHorror: Dr. Friedkin, the famous surgeon who did tons of unethical lobotomies mentioned at the beginning of the film [[spoiler: is in the hospital with the ghosts still doing lobotomies with his nurses and tools.]]

* MedicalHorror: The famous surgeon who did tons of lobotomies mentioned at the beginning of the film [[spoiler: is in the hospital with the ghosts still doing lobotomies with his nurses and tools.]]
* NeverSleepAgain: The crew tries to stay awake in shifts, because whenever they all fall asleep, something bad happens in creepy ways to remind the cast they're being toyed with. [[spoiler: Sasha is effectively "killed" in the end when a fog envelopes her and Lance while they sleep, only to have Lance awaken unharmed but with no clue as to where Sasha remotely is: taken by the fog while they slept]].

* NothingIsScarier: Somewhat averted, unlike most of the [[FoundFootageFilms movies in its genre]], the ghosts in this film get bored of being subtle after 15 minutes. There are still some nice creepy shots where you're tense waiting to see what's around the corner next though.
* PsychologicalHorror: They do have a lot of physical threats, but there are several indrect threats as well from sickness, lack of food, never ending corridors and no exits, culminating with the fact that time is passing very quickly and they have no light.

* ScreamerTrailer: Several ghosts attack in the trailer, and at the end a table is thrown and Sasha goes berserk with screaming.

** [[spoiler: T.C's death]] seems to be a ShoutOut to a similar scene near the end of ''{{REC}} 2'' and the end is similar to the one in ''{{REC}}''

* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: The bald man ghost.

* TortureCellar: The basic purpose of the operating room was to test lobotomies, as history will say the methods were often very cruel and did not let their victims survive very long. [[spoiler: the final survivor finds this out first hand.]]

* AlwaysNight [[spoiler: After everyone checks the time they realize it's the afternoon, 1 pm, yet there's no light whatsoever. This is played seriously in the movie as if the building is in some sort of dimension of its own]].

* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: [[spoiler: at one point the group is attacked by a series of black arms reaching out of the wall, and earlier in the movie Sasha is grabbed by an arm that busts through the glass of a door she's standing near, but the viewer never sees who these arms belong to, if anyone at all.]]

* [[spoiler: DeathByFallingOver: Matt, in his insane state, looks down the elevator shaft with the camera. The camera shows him falling to his doom, and the two remaining members both rush over to find him dead having fallen over four floors to the ground and hitting solid concrete.]]

* NothingIsScarier: Somewhat Averted, unlike most of the [[FoundFootageFilms movies in its genre]], the ghosts in this film get bored of being subtle after 15 minutes. There are still some nice creepy shots where you're tense waiting to see what's around the corner next though.

* AfraidOfBlood: Nobody wants to be near [[BloodBath the bathtub of blood]] in the bathroom [[spoiler: except Matt but he's insane at this point]] so naturally everyone wants to leave. [[spoiler: It's made even worse when Matt won't get away from the tub and T.C. gets pulled in by something, whatever it was, resulting in him vanishing. They even tip the tub over, he's gone.]]

* AlwaysNight [[spoiler: after everyone checks the time they realize it's the afternoon, 1 pm, yet there's no light whatsoever. This is played seriously in the movie as if the building is in some sort of dimension of its own]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Lance did want one hell of a ghost hunting show.
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: The sole survivor, Lance, is shown having been lobotomized in the last scene.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: this trope could apply to a lot of the cast who are scared, thrown around, attacked, and overall killed, but none applies more than Lance's lobotomy at the end.]]

* FaceRevealingTurn: When everyone finds the bathroom, a woman is looking in the corner. While she turns her head she appears normal, but after just a few seconds her face goes BodyHorror and she screams.

* HorrorStruck: Members of the cast at first dismiss the stories of the hospital as garbage, and even bribe a man to make stuff up because they don't believe they'll find anything. Then, when every story they heard comes true, suddenly they're all believers.

* [[spoiler: TheEndOrIsIt?: The bodies of the crew are never stated to be found, and it's uncertain if the crew has become a part of the dead walking in the hospital or are gone, but it's certain that whatever is in the hospital is still there.]]

* Room101: The hosptial in a general sense, and the operation chamber in a literal example.

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: virtually everybody, but T.C. and Houston especially, the former grabbed and vanishes, the second thrown through the air with no warning and dies.]]
* TakeThat: to GhostHunters and reality shows in general.

* [[spoiler: DeathByFallingOver: Matt, in his insane state, looks down the elevator shaft with the camera. The camera shows him falling to his doom, and the two remaining members both rush over to find him dead having fallen over four floors to the ground and hitting solid concrete. The reason he fell? It looks like he just leaned too far over.]]

''Grave Encounters'' is a 2010 indie horror film shot in the First Person Camera Style about the crew of a ''GhostHunters'' -like reality show who surveys haunted locations in the hopes of capturing ghostly activity on film. A prologue mentions that this particular episode, centering around [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything an abandoned mental hospital]] [[{{Session 9}} in the Danvers County area]], was to be the sixth, and the raw footage shows how they play up the spooky factor to increase the atmosphere. However, they soon find themselves into a nightmare as the sun goes down...

''Grave Encounters'' is a 2010 indie horror film shot in the First Person Camera Style about the crew of a ''GhostHunters'' -like reality show finding themselves into a nightmare when they decide to shoot their next episode into [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything an abandoned mental hospital]] [[{{Session 9}} in the Danvers County area]].

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