Vomitron_G "Boo" really doesn't deserve to be flunked. Compared to a lot of other low-budget nonsense, "Boo" plays it more seriously and does a good job in creating an eerie atmosphere. The special effects and cinematography is pretty decent. The setting is creepy and some killings are pretty splattery (including ghostly imagery and some jump scares). The plot isn't anything original since it's just about a group of friends spending Halloween night in an abandoned building (a hospital, in this case), but it's all handled well. Dee Wallace-Stone has some enjoyable screen time in it. "Boo" turned out a pretty likable indie-horror effort. Nothing innovating and the acting was just so-so, but good enough and certainly worth a watch if you're in a not too demanding mood.

kali90210 ...but should have been better still.It might be unfair to do this but given the fact that the director worked at fangoria I expected something a bit more ground breaking. and the acting...oy vey.Making a movie is hard and the results do not always reflect the talent and drive of the filmmakers. That said, the film is technically solid and had the script and actors managed to make one care whether the characters lived or died it might have been a winner.Some good location work doesn't hide the fact that the only thing that livens up the pace is when another dull character gets offed. Dee Wallace Stone shows up briefly and one can only wish she'd been the major focus of the film but I suppose it's a hard and fast rule that all characters in horror movies must be teenagers.

aesgaard41 These days I can't watch a ghost movie without picking it apart for how paranormally accurate it is. This movie starts out almost believable, but then it ends up as sort of a rehash of "Night of the Demons" with ingredients of "The Evil Dead" and "House on Haunted Hill." The story is about a haunted location used as the site of a Halloween get-together; it's supposed to be haunted and when it turns out its true, a plot device is contrived to keep them inside. That is where the whole plot becomes unbelievable. It has an uneven plot, dragging down for scenes of character exposition. One girl's psychic visions of the hospital's past also breaks up the more linear flow of the movie which does have several legitimate scares, and moments that only happen in bad horror movies. The most interesting character is the cop, a former actor from the Seventies, but the location too, an actual haunted location, provides a lot of presence. It alone could have carried the movie, but the main ghost, wasted in a lot of body-jumping nonsense, isn't that menacing. There's a lot of needless gore and some shaky foreboding, but it also seems to be its own sequel: one of the characters going in does so looking for his sister who vanished within. Overall, it's a good movie, but not a great one. A lot of creative energy went into this movie, but it's constructed in such a way that makes it hard to follow.

Zombified_660 I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from Boo. The title was pretty non-descript, and the box was covered in the kind of hyperbole every horror movie released in the west has had all over it's sleeve since 1976. About 10 minutes in, Boo was looking like it was going to plough forward like Dead Scared or the Convent without a sense of humour, and I was starting to get a bit bored.However, 20 minutes in the cast got into the haunted hospital, then it really picked up steam. The interior direction in the film is great, the hospital looks fantastic, almost as good as the hospital sets from Session 9 and Silent Hill, and the movie's atmosphere gets really tight and tense once the obligatory pack of kids is inside the building and the lights are down.Boo has a lot of little shocks, it's steadily paced so after that initial 10 minute lull you keep stopping and starting every five minutes or so. It doesn't have a lot in terms of scare set-pieces, but it's fast pacing and creepy atmosphere make up for the lack of truly terrifying scenes.In honesty, some of the movie is a little generic. If I see a post-Ring American psychological-horror that DOESN'T have a scary little kid wandering around it'll be a miracle. Thankfully they don't waste the cliché here and the little girl is pretty spooky, and responsible for what's probably the best scare in the film when one of the cast gets trapped in a room with her .The cast aren't magnificent either. The main bad guy is more irritating and whiny than fearsome and spooky, and aside from the lead girl the rest of the cast are amiable but completely disposable.Still, that's not necessarily important in a horror movie, what's key is that the film stays atmospheric and has good pacing and tension. Boo has all that and then some, so honestly you can overlook most of it's flaws.