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1/10
Don't do it!
jenmanuel-894327 April 2019
This movie is horrible. I think they have 15 minutes of footage and keep replaying it so you don't forget what happened three minutes ago. My husband and I were routing for the annoying dingbats to die. There was nothing scary besides the acting.
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1/10
Paranormal Factory of the Stupid
tmccull5218 December 2019
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If you are a fan of "found footage" films, this little gem will make you want to swear them off forever. It really is that bad.

Carrie and her BFF Valerie decide to investigate an abandoned, supposedly haunted factory. Carrie is the believer, the novice paranormal investigator, and Val is the good-natured skeptic who tags along to humor her friend.

Instead of driving to the factory together, they take separate cars. Carrie explains that the logic behind this decision is like, so, like... I don't know... like so that they can... I don't know... so like... I don't know...so like if like something happens... I don't know.. like it would be easier for one of them to like totally bail and like... I don't know... like leave the other one behind. Like.

Our intrepid duo bicker and debate about going inside, and they find a crumpled black sheet on the ground. We are then treated to such scintillating discourse as;

"You pick it up."

"Nuh unh, YOU pick it up! It's your investigation."

"Yeah, but you're closer so, like, you pick it up!"

Before either of these two can pick up the creepy black sheet, Kyle, the realtor, shows up and admonishes our heroes, telling them to go away. While he is telling them to leave, the creepy black sheet disappears! Oh no! Mystery of mysteries!

Carrie and her BFF go back and sit in Carrie's car. Carrie is now firmly convinced that something akin to Area 51 is going on inside of that factory, and Kyle and his unnamed clients don't want the public to know. But dagnabit, Carrie is going to expose the truth! Mind you, the total amount of the evidence of this vast conspiracy consists of a crumpled black sheet, Kyle the realtor, and the fact that Carrie believes that she may have seen someone on the other side of the fence surrounding the factory grounds. That's it.

Carrie and BFF go back, and they find the crumpled black sheet again. Inside of it, they find.a child's doll. Carrie has also been hearing voices, and what sounds like childrens' laughter. Of course, the BFF has heard none of these things. Carrie will not be dissuaded by her BFF's skepticism and reluctance to sally forth, however! By cracky, nefaria and perfidity abound in yon factory walls, and she will bring the truth of it all to Joe and Jane Q. Citizen!

They sneak onto the factory grounds, and are caught again by Kyle the Realtor. He says, "What the Hell did I tell you?!", and the next thing you know, Carrie and her BFF are somehow inside of the factory?

Where's Kyle?

How did they get away from him and make their way into the factory?

Details! Who has time for details and explanations?! We have a movie to make, damn it!

Inside the factory, Carrie and BFF become separated. Carrie hears groaning, and comes to find Val on her knees, head thrown back, arms out by her sides. Is she possessed? Is she having severe gas pains from ingesting gas station sushi? Is she in the throes of uncontrollable flatulence?

Hey, look! It's Kyle again! How the heck did he get there?

Carrie flees, leaving her BFF behind, and we are treated to flashback after flashback, each and all recounting the same things that we"ve already seen at least three times by this point.

We are then treated to Carrie's labored breathing on camera while she flees for about five minutes. Oh, look! It's that old doll! Now it's in a hole in one of the factory's interior walls. How did it get there? What's the sgnificance of it? Which knows? Who cares? Certainly not the director. Carrie keeps running, and she finds the crumpled black sheet again. This time, there are noises and movement from under the blanket, and then there is a glimpse of some pallid face as a figure leaps at Carrie from under the blanket.

Oh, hey look! There's Kyle the Realtor again. Like, I don't know... hi, Kyle!

Then, we are treated to the camera rolling around on the ground, and then someone picks it up. Who is it? Kyle, the creepy realtor!

Where's Carrie? Where's her BFF? What's the connection between a crumpled black sheet, an old childrens' doll, an abandoned factory, and Kyle the realtor? Carrie doesn't know. Her BFF doesn't know. I'm pretty sure that the director of the movie didn't know.

Fade to black! The End.

If you're looking to be annoyed for about an hour and a half, this is the movie for you. If you're looking for something other than two or three hundred "I don't know..." and "So like..." references, you may want to pass on this one.
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1/10
Absolute worst
anonymousxinfinity17 June 2020
These two ditz's do nothing but say the word "creepy" CONSTANTLY. They constantly repeat the same lines like "there's something going on" and" omg that's so creepy" and "we have to find out what's going on". It's literally nothing but repeated dialogue and worthless flashbacks that literally just happened minutes ago. This has got to be the dumbest found footage movie I have EVER seen. I mean seriously, I always give movies a solid chance and am genuinely entertained by most of them but I could not stop yelling at these dumb and horrible actors
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1/10
I think, I don't know.
undeadzombie196418 May 2019
Dialog is pretty much consistent "I think" and "I don't know"'s with an occasional "we'll see" and "and um". Painfully boring. Video quality is better than most of the genre.
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1/10
Why?
chappens22 November 2020
This movie is literally just 30 minutes of NOTHING, followed by random heavy breathing interspersed with the same nothing footage from the first 30 minutes! Don't watch this... I have seen leg shaving scenes that are more intense than this...
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1/10
No offense to the directors/actors but...
will_c_west23 March 2024
This was really bad. It's as amateur as you can get as a filmmaker. I watch nothing but horror and pop on random horror movies throughout the day, trying to find found footage, mostly.

I saw Paranormal Factory, and I could tell by the name that it was probably going to be mediocre at best. I was wrong.

The movie is 112 minutes, with half of it spent replaying footage from the beginning and middle of the movie, that you see 2-4 times at least, and they provide nothing to the pacing or the plot. I, honestly, thought that my Fire Stick was messing up and skipping backwards, so I checked the time after seeing the same footage for the 3rd time and, no, the movie time continued to move forward.

The dialogue is mostly teenage "um", "oh my God", "like", "ok, like", "I don't know"s.

Not a bad attempt at a first run found footage, but the director needs more practice and study on the genre.
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1/10
Ground garbage
gwelch-599084 April 2024
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OK, here's my theory. The two actresses playing the girls in the film decided to do a "found footage" film for some high school media class. It was supposed to be 15 or 20 minutes long. They did that. Because they had no budget, their monster was a black sheet. They also tossed in a baby doll. The bald guy was one of the girls' stepfather or uncle or unemployed family friend who had access to the closed factory, and they roped him in to play a bit part.

After the girls made their film, the bald guy, listed as the "director", told the girls they might make a little money on it if they let him edit it. He basically stretched it out by editing together the footage from both cameras, so you basically see every bit of dialog twice, and then do flashbacks and flash-forwards of every scene two to four times until the run time is close to feature length.

So, the "director" took a minimally amusing amateur high school project and managed to butcher it. That was his contribution. Had the girls turned in the hacked up hamburger the "director" ground out, they would have undoubtedly failed their class. In other words, this movie could have been improved by high school kids.
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Demonic cult
sskale-8952718 September 2022
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I just watched this movie today..and god believe me..it is just the repetition of dialogue that gets me..same lame ass takling again and again..ad nauseum..the pain of watching this movie just doesnt go away until the final credita roll..they find some black cloth..some baby doll and a bald headed securuty guy..the black cloth turns into a demon..attacking and probably offing the two convoluted chicks. For the good of the movie..they also threw in a lame ass government helicoptor tracking the two obnoxious chicks..my guess there was a demonic kill kult operating inside that godforsaken factory ultinateky consuming our two noxious leads.
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1/10
Idk what to say
shawndonovan-2903219 April 2018
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Honestly I am speechless... Besides the one girl Carrie, Being hot , I disliked this movie extremely much. They didn't explain anything and the second half of the movie was all previous shots from the first half of the movie!
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10/10
Realistic and scary as hell! It feels up on you!!
mortcoil19 September 2020
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I loved this movie because the girls in it were just so ordinary so regularly they had no idea what they were getting into they were not professionals they repeated themselves they were kind of awkward kind of two-dimensional in their approach because they really you know they were just regular people that just wanted do something cool and find something scary and have something kind of neat to put down you know on video and then when it got a little more serious when they thought something was really going on you could see how scared they started to get and then at the end it just well nothing was explained because nothing was explained to them it just happened as it happened and just that dead pan look of the car or the Realtors face and the bizarre death of Vanessa and I'll tell you what really made it for me was carrie, Lindsay Mason. I think she was so captivating in her unique way, and I got to tell you on a scale from 1 to 10 she's about a million, what a knockout! She has to be one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, with the greatest smile I've ever seen. And the most lyrical voice, I mean it is just a win-win if you watch it just to watch her talk and move. It was just so full of bright Sunshine energy like it's just going to be a just a fun interesting thing and then it gets so dark and she gets so frightened and at the same time this woman is so gorgeous it's not even fair to say she's beautiful she's just absolutely stunningly gorgeous. She made the movie for me anyway, I think that she's a potential Oscar winner I mean that's how natural she looked and she's got to be the next supermodel if anybody with eyes and a designer label of anything clothes perfume I don't know what but this woman, Lindsay Mason is just so, I'll be politically incorrect here and say she's just so damn hot! What a smile did I say that already? She got the most beautiful gums I've ever seen! That's on top of her beautiful face already enter lovely and graceful form. The movie itself does not have any special effects besides the sheet and the sheet itself was so disturbing the way it was found it was very innovative very well done and the way Vanessa seemed to hang more or less in a state of contortion my god, what the hell was that! This was just a very scary film I would have given it maybe a different title but factory repair normal certainly stays with you it's hard to forget it, I would have probably called it paranormal: the factory. Good understated direction and very low-key suspense building to a crescendo of terror I recommend this film to anybody who who likes paranormal horror and also for found footage completists, this needs to be part of your library. And Lindsay Mason needs to be featured in bigger roles and more of them because she is just a realistic fantastic and charismatic actress.
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