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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe picture's creepiness factor is sufficient to rate this a notch above genre average.
- 38Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerTwelve long years after "The Blair Witch Project" pushed the first-person-POV subgenre to horror's forefront, and four years after [Rec] expertly refined the formula, Grave Encounters can't even pretend to be anything other than hopelessly derivative.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceTrue terror needs at least some authenticity. That's perhaps too much to ask of a faked movie about a faked reality show that still can't scare up a fresh idea.
- 30The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAs the uniformly annoying characters stumble around, screaming and cursing, we don't give a hoot for their survival. Quite the reverse: we're counting the minutes until the asylum's ghostly inhabitants silence them for good.