Charlie Grimmell's death during the production of a high school for the play 'The Gallows' seems to have evil residue that will not end yet. Twenty years later, on the night before the revival of the play, Reese, Viver, Rayyan and Cassidy were all in the room seeking to escape from the spirit that besieged them all. The four friends are waiting for real terrorism because of the spirit of student Charlie as they face the wrath of the hateful spirit and retaliation that has returned.
In a quick 80 minutes, we get the back story, we meet the four core characters (all of the young actors do fine work), get the wits scared out of us about a half-dozen times and wind up with a VERY creepy ending.
Reel Film Reviews
March 18, 2016
A generic, laughably incompetent found-footage horror flick...
The Gallows has a cleverness that bobs, occasionally, above the surface of cesspool murk. You can't tell whether it's just flotsam or a corpse, but for most of the 80-minute run time it almost doesn't matter. It's at least something.
A cautionary note: If your horror film is about a high-school theater production and still, the acting's not the worst thing about it, something's gone awfully wrong.
It may be easy to dismiss The Gallows as yet another 'found footage' movie but the film is actually a cleverly executed low-fi horror tale that manages to do a few things a bit differently and also delivers some solid scares too.
