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The Gallows is a 2015 American found footage supernatural horror film written and directed by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff. The film stars Reese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown, Ryan Shoos and Cassidy Gifford-Weirda. The Gallows was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema on July 10, 2015. A sequel, The Gallows Act II, was released in October 2019.

Plot
In 1993, a freak accident involving a noose kills teenager Charlie Grimille during a high-school production of "The Gallows." Twenty years later, on the eve of the play's revival, students Reese (Reese Mishler), Pfeifer (Pfeifer Brown), Ryan (Ryan Shoos) and Cassidy become trapped in the auditorium, with no way of calling for help. A night of terror awaits the four friends as they face the wrath of a malevolent and vengeful spirit. It seems Charlie will have his curtain call after all.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The found footage horror film is nothing at all.
 * 2) Awful visual effects that is low budget at all.
 * 3) The ending is just abysmal and comes completely out of freaking nowhere. Its like a slasher movie written by Vince Russo. To put it briefly, there is the scenes when the police enter the house where Pfeifer and Alexis are living and watching footage of Charlie’s death, showing that Pfeifer is the daughter of Charlie and Alexis. When they attempt to question them about Charlie, Pfeifer warns, "You shouldn’t say that name." The officer witnesses his partner being dragged by a noose, killing him. Charlie then attacks and kills the policeman, as the screen cuts to black. This film could be sequel baiting.
 * 4) Atrocious pacing that makes the story extremely rushed and too fast. Because of this, it doesn't feel like the theatrical length horror film and more like direct-to-video horror film.
 * 5) Too many cheap jump-scares, which is another problem of found footage horror films.
 * 6) It is just really clichéd story. It is just a film about a group of teens, consisting of a generic everyman, a final girl, a wisecracking cameraman, and Cassidy get lost in a familiar place after dark, with all of the exits locked and the cell phones lacking connection, and are picked off by the manifestation of a boy who died in the area many years ago. The killer is getting revenge by proxy for the actions of a main character's parent that led to the killer's horrible death.
 * 7) Horrible acting that sounds really lifeless, especially the worst offended of Reese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown and Ryan Shoos.
 * 8) With the exception of Cassidy, no one in the main cast is very likable or sympathetic. They all got themselves into the situation they were in by breaking into school late at night to tamper with the production and Ryan in particular is especially bad for bullying a drama kid just for laughs and then nearly beats him up when he tries to get back at him.
 * 9) The tagline "Every school has its spirit" is not very impressive, interesting and even worst of all time.
 * 10) The marketing for the film, at least in the United States, has been widely noted as fucking obnoxious and inescapable. Especially when many of the commercials hyped the films villain Charlie as the next big horror movie icon along side Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) Cassidy was only likable. In fact, her death scene arguably the most intense in the film.

Reception
The Gallows was largely disliked by critics and audiences. According to the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 14% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 119 reviews, with an average rating of 3.15/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Narratively contrived and visually a mess, The Gallows sends viewers on a shaky tumble to the bottom of the found-footage horror barrel.". At Metacritic, which assigns and normalizes scores of critic reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 30 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

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