Reviews

The show is for entertainment purposes only, you might be better served by watching professionally made ghost movies; there is NO scientifically collected data shown in this show. When I initially heard about the Ghost Hunters TV show, I had high hopes. Here, supposedly, were a team of scientifically minded people, who also supposedly had their own personal experiences with paranormal events, which spurred them on to follow up with a team of intestigators and scientific data collection, in order to prove or disprove people's claims of hauntings. Instead, we get a bumbling group of amatuers that never learn from their mistakes, and worse, get outed by ex cast members for embellishing, and even faking, their data. During season one, I could understand their lack of understanding on why it is necessary to show that a phenomenon is being shown from multiple angles to record that the data collected isn't being faked, and that the event isn't being tampered with by someone outside the view of the camera. But over the entire series, then NEVER corrected this. We still have single camera shots, supposedly having 'evidence' of a haunting, all on the word of the person recording the video that it's legit. Sorry, ghost hunters, science doesn't work that way. And why are all the investigations done in pitch black? When real people see ghosts, they see them in the daytime, or in electrically lit places. So that's the type of environment that you should be looking for ghosts. I mean really, looking for shadows in the dark? Ridiculous. It's a great show for 9 year olds that don't know any better. The episodes are along the lines of old, cheesy haunted house movies; which, BTW, are better than this show at giving you the thrills and chills that you expect from discovering ghosts. This 2019 reboot is no better.

Non spoiler part: First, if at home, you'll need a soundproof room; most of the speech is at whisper or mumble level, so you have to turn the volume way up to hear it. Then, when the women screaming reach 110 decibels, you'll have neighbors pounding on your door to see if you've just killed your wife, mother, sister, or daughter. I consider the quality of a movie, as being how much you enjoy watching it. In this one's case, I kept pausing it and getting up to do something else, anything else. The story is dreary, the dialogue terrible, and the plot plods along at snail speed. Spoiler:



But I managed to watch the whole thing, and the spoiler is that the abuse, of human trafficing by selling female patients to the rich who controlled the place, at this mental institution went on until 2009 when the place was finally shut down. Yes, the rich and powerful people who run America still buy and sell people. Slavery still goes on.