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This film consists of 3 episodes. Rayne Morgan (Jessica D. Fulling) leads a group of supernatural researchers which include a priest (Scott Evans) a Wiccan (Renee Wiggins) and a goth (Korin Medina) equipped with special electronics, cameras, and swagger music.

The first episode consists of a young potty mouthed girl who needs a 3 minute exorcism. It was so campy it was funny. Their assistance is needed in a second episode when a poltergeist haunts a home by cleaning things up and stacking items neatly. Seriously? Send that one to my place, please. It uses the dreaded Ouija board as a portal. Yes, it starts out with burning black candles and the next thing you know you're drinking goat's blood with Satan in your living room talking philosophy watching "South Park" reruns.

The final episode has a killer spirit named Benjamin who is located in electrical tunnels under a university.

The acting was bad. The filming is more professional than the found footage type of films. It uses clear multiple camera angles for which there is no camera, so in essence this is a hybrid movie and not an actual found footage film which don't fool anyone...I hope. Not worth watching unless you want a laugh.

Parental Guidance: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Some cleavage shots.

EVIDENCE OF A HAUNTING is part of a seemingly endless barrage of cinema-verite "horror" films a la "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity." But that's where the similarity ends. The acting here is monochromatic, the irksome techno score is out of place, and the screenplay is rife with clichés that dozens of other films handled much better.

EVIDENCE chronicles the awkwardly-named Supernatural Paranormal Research Society, six young people who star in a reality show that chronicles their search for the occult. Of course, unlike the real world's ghost-hunter shows, these folks actually encounter (and ultimately vanquish) evil spirits. At least, that's what we're supposed to think; the spirits are conveniently invisible.

The film is divided into three segments. The first is a direct rip- off of "The Exorcist," involving the possession of an 11-year-old girl by a ghost with anger issues. The exorcism takes all of two minutes and is accomplished by waving a cross at the spirit and shouting it down. First, the kid is possessed, and one second later, she's not.

Up next, the team looks into a series of unexplained events in an Oklahoma house. It turns out, the owner's two young daughters got hold of a Ouija board and accidentally summoned the spirit of a Cherokee medicine man who really wants to stay in our world. The team gets rid of the ghost by chopping up the Ouija board and burning it, despite the ghost's inexplicably mild protests. As in the first segment, the spirit is there one moment and gone the next.

The third segment is by far the most effective. This time, the team investigates a suspected haunting in a network of underground tunnels beneath a Dallas college campus. The unlit, claustrophobic atmosphere greatly assists what has been, up to now, a turgid and decidedly unfrightening attempt at a horror film.

Sandwiched between the second and third segments is a tortuous barroom scene in which the team members unwind over drinks and engage in trite conversations that reveal the callowness of the script (and the non-existent acting skills of the cast). As if ripping off "The Exorcist" and "Paranormal Activity" weren't enough, now they're channeling "The Breakfast Club."

The film makes repeated references to "Dead Hour," when ghosts come alive in our world. Dead Hour lasts from 3:00-4:00 a.m. But in which time zone? And does Dead Hour take Daylight Savings Time into account? Hell, I've put more thought into this review than they put into their film!

This movie centers around six hip, trendy paranormal investigators. They're cool, they have all of the answers, they're the Justice League of the paranormal investigation set. There's Rayne, the perpetually calm, collected leader who became intrigued by the supernatural/paranormal due to a childhood experience with the spirit world. There are Sam and Tor, the group's tech guy and video Grapher, respectively. There's Shelley, the Wiccan priestess, and Will, the Christan clergyman. Will and Shelley are in a fledgling, flirtatious relationship despite their spiritual and religious differences. There's TONS of foreshadowing about the potential trouble to stem.from.their "forbidden" relationship. Finally, there's the tattooed psychic medium with multiple piercings, Echo Sandalwood.

There's supposedly a need for both a psychic-medium and a Wiccan priestess, even though the movie depicts their "gifts" as being pretty much identical. Over the first few sequences of the movie, each character gets to flex their respective muscles to show why they're each integral and important to the team. They handle an exorcism and the inherent demon, and then a poltergeist who is the spirit of a deceased Choctaw shaman. Of course, our mighty and diverse crew prevails in each case.

After vanquished the spirit of the testy Choctaw shaman, Rayne takes the team to investigate the haunted tunnels that run beneath Trinity Rivers College. As is the case in pretty much every paranormal investigation ever, the team is locked in the haunted tunnels with no means of communication with the outside world. They can't get out until the chief maintenance man at the college comes back the next morning to let them.out. According to Rayne, multiple students at the college has died in the tunnels over the years. Rayne and the team are supposed to unravel this mystery. Chief among these spirits is that of Benjamin, the ghost of a ten year old boy that also perished in the tunnels.

The acting in this movie is bad... really bad. It's as if each actor attended the Jack Webb Academy of Stoic Detachment. I kept waiting for one of them to spout out, "Just the facts, ma'am...", much as Webb did as Sgt. Joe Friday of the old "Dragnet" radio and television series. The actress portraying Shelley bears a striking resemblance to Jennifer Aniston. They look so much alike that they could be sisters.

Echo and Rayne perform a preliminary investigation, and encounter the spirit of Benjamin, and an evil entity named "Ayperos", who is supposedly the spirit of a professor who cheated on his wife with a student. The group communicates with Ayperos through a spirit box, and he tells them that he torments the other spirits in the tunnels.

At some point, Benjamin speaks through the spirit box and addresses Echo specifically by name, which freaks her and the others out. Echo and Tor go to investigate, to see if they can communicate with Benjamin. Okay, they were just speaking to Benjamin through the spirit box; why go off to try and speak to him without it.

Sam is eventually left alone at "command central", where he is tormented by the voices of spirits laughing at him, and saying, "Join us." Of course, Sam panics and flees, and becomes lost. He is then attacked and subdued by an unseen entity, and he is dragged away.

Will and Shelley hear Rayne scream, and rush off to.find her. When they do, she is possessed by the spirit of Ayperos's wife, who has come to drag Ayperos to Hell for cheating on her when they were both alive. Will.performs an exorcism, and drives the spirit named Persephone out of Rayne's body. Then, for some reason, they leave the unconscious Rayne alone in the tunnels to go and play forbidden kissy-face.

Rayne wakes up, goes to.find Will and Shelley and... dematerializes? As it turns out, Echo, Sam, and Tor are dead. Will and Shelley make it out alive, and Rayne dies and becomes Benjamin's surrogate ghost mother in the tunnels. Rayne describes herself as whole and complete. The end.

I got ten 'movies' from Walmart for $5, and so far, they've been awful. This was one of them and it was truly terrible.

Acting is terrible, plot is terrible, writing is terrible. I'm only posting to back up the previous review and state he is absolutely correct in his summation.

I originally believed someone submitted this as a potential pilot to Syfy or something, hoping it would get picked up.

It seems about like a Syfy 'reality' program. All I could really say is we are given six people, three guys, three girls, who are ghost hunters of sorts.

They seem to travel mainly in the south, Louisiana, Texas.

I just can't stress enough this is not Blair Witch. It is horribly done. I've seen better performances from new kids on soap operas.

And the writing was absolutely atrocious.

Thumbs down all the way.

I wish IMDd would add a 'minus' rating so we can warn people against trash like this nonsense. It feels like the makers thought 'hey let's make a Found Footage' horror using every clichéd line/ horror plot we can find, from the incredibly unoriginal 'abuse dished out by the possessed one minute/not possessed the next minute little girl to the priest, through to the 'exorcism dialogue' from the priest, and that is all in the first few minutes and it all goes downhill from there which is some achievement when, after the first five minutes, you wonder how worse it can get, well it somehow manages to do so. The premise is staggeringly drab showing how utterly clueless the producers/Director and writers must be. A young family have just moved into a new house where they have been experiencing 'disturbing phenomena' and the psychic claims there is 'something very powerful' in the house which is a Native American spirit..., ....blah, blah, blah.....

Utterly pointless drivel. I hope all involved with this abomination get lifetime bans from the MPAA from ever being allowed anywhere near a Word Processor, a film set or film equipment again. They should all be tracked down and beaten with heavy sticks by every fan of horror or Found Footage film.

The less said about the pointless dreadful techno soundtrack which just doesn't work in the genre, the better.