The Gallows

Warner Bros. | Release Date: July 10, 2015

6.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 150 Ratings

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horcrux2007Jul 10, 2015

Unsurprisingly, this movie has gotten a lot of hate around the internet. With a 4.7 on IMDb based on only 164 ratings, a 16% on rotten tomatoes and a 31 on metacritic, you'd expect this to be a complete disaster. Fortunately, The Gallows is aUnsurprisingly, this movie has gotten a lot of hate around the internet. With a 4.7 on IMDb based on only 164 ratings, a 16% on rotten tomatoes and a 31 on metacritic, you'd expect this to be a complete disaster. Fortunately, The Gallows is a surprisingly intense and effective little found footage flick that has a few good scares up its sleeve. The Gallows is a supernatural found footage film about a group of teenagers who break into their school the night before a play, appropriately titled "The Gallows", so that the show can't go on. However, 20 years earlier, a freak accident happened during the same play that resulted in the death of Charlie Grimelle, the star of the show. For the most part, this film is rather tight and controlled. Clocking in at a criminally short 81 minutes, this does allow the movie to move at a pretty brisk pace, but a few scenes do feel rather rushed. Some of the scares do fall flat because of this and go for a jump scare that would have been much more effective if there wasn't a "big whoosh sound". Other than those few scenes, there are quite a few well-timed jump scares and a lot of incredibly intense and scary scenes that, luckily, don't end on a dramatic jump scare. Watching the four characters roaming the dark, empty corridors of their school is rather unnerving, especially when they find hidden rooms underneath the school. The sound also makes this movie very atmospheric and unsettling. The Gallows isn't without its glaring problems. This movie definitely won't win any awards in the originality department, and the acting (something I usually never mention) is largely uneven from a couple of the cast members, but the worst thing about The Gallows is the atrocity that is the ending. I don't want to spoil anything, but the big plot twist at the end was insanely predictable and cheesy. It was almost as if the filmmakers couldn't come up with a decent way to end the movie, so they just wrapped it up with some lame plot twist that makes no sense at all. That might have been why this was only 81 minutes. The worst thing about the ending is that it actually created more questions than it answered, which really frustrated my friend and me. Despite the absolutely awful ending, The Gallows does not deserve the scorn it's been getting on the Internet. It's a very intense and sometimes scary movie, and it's definitely a movie you'll want to watch in the theater.… Expand

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Super8mmJul 28, 2015

I walked into "The Gallows" with pretty low expectations. The found footage genre only has a few greats, such as, "The Blair Witch Project", "Paranormal Activity", "Rec", and "As Above So Below". However, this movie was quite a surprise. FromI walked into "The Gallows" with pretty low expectations. The found footage genre only has a few greats, such as, "The Blair Witch Project", "Paranormal Activity", "Rec", and "As Above So Below". However, this movie was quite a surprise. From the originality to the story, to the execution of the masked killer, a.k.a. Charlie, the film did an excellent job. Horror movies aren't about the jump scares, they are about how the director(s) build up the atmosphere. Even though this film did have some jump scares, I was really impressed by the way the atmosphere was created. It takes place in a high school during the dead of night. I never realized how terrifying that could be. The use of the exit signs illuminating the halls with its blood red glow really stood out to me. I also enjoyed the fact that it wasn't just told from one point of view. There were multiple cameras that allowed the viewer to move deeper into the story without having to be subject to just one point of view. Each character had their own personality, which is hard to come by nowadays. And, Charlie, scared the hell out me. Now, it wasn't the best horror film I've ever seen, but it was effective and I would recommend it to all of you hardcore horror fans.… Expand

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HaithamBJul 18, 2015

Following the InFamous trend OF Hollywood's Found - Footage sub genre, The Gallows ( 2015 ) is a serviceable horror film with a sick twist ending !!!!

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kgov12Jul 17, 2015

Loved it !! , The Gallows is a intense and a effective found footage film that has a few good scares up its sleeve. It's a very intense and scary movie, and it's definitely a movie you'll want to watch in the theater.

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JLauSep 27, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Boy who died in stage accident comes back to hang members of drama class who are acting in a rerun of the show he died in.… Expand

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