It's actually the Balsam Mountain Inn and the lady that owns it has pissed the entire town off. The location isn't even operating. It's on the market for 2.5 million dollars. Enter documentary.
Honestly, Kane seemed genuine, but very gullible. I think the guy is truly curious about the paranormal and really wants to experience it. But to refer to this place as the most haunted he's ever been in made me cringe. That's not his fault. I just don't think he's really been to a truly haunted place.
There wasn't a single element presented to make the place haunted other than stories and everybody believing everything the witch investigator said. The scene where she is in headphones and nobody else can hear what she is hearing had me close to turning it off. She kept saying out loud what she was hearing, but they never once presented the actual audio she was listening to. Kane and everybody else just took her word for it. She also claimed to feel cold spots, but nobody even investigated that in the slightest. And of course, the witch investigator turned everything she was "hearing" into something about Kane.
I'm baffled as to why so much time of the documentary was spent on the doors opening and closing. It was evident they do this all day and all night long. Clearly, a breeze was the culprit. Commercial kitchen doors just about anywhere do this with one opening and the other closing, etc. It's simple physics.
Kane in the "forbidden" room. He only spent a little over 30 minutes "investigating" the room. He even states that it was easier to move around in there during the day. By saying that, it completed negated the whole build up and tension of "nobody is ever allowed in that room" narrative.
In the ballroom, when they pick up a third "anomaly" next to the dancers, it is clearly the "christmas lights" wrapped around the pillar. You see those vividly early on in the documentary during the tour.
With the location closed for business and up for sale, one has to wonder what the motives were for releasing this. My guess is nobody in the small town of Balsam is interested and putting this out there and trying to make the location famous would help sell the property.
Now I will say it was a relief to see this not be over the top and blown out of proportion like the paranormal TV shows. The production was quite good for a documentary, although it did drag and linger in spots that really didn't need that much focus.
I think the director has a future. In my opinion he just needs a truly haunted location with real investigators to make it interesting. There really wasn't much investigating in this and with the word investigation in the title it can confuse the viewer. It was more sitting around and talking and relying on a random talk box to lead the cast into whatever direction they wanted to take the narrative.
I did enjoy Kane's curiosity and he was truly the only part I felt was authentic in the entire film.
Honestly, Kane seemed genuine, but very gullible. I think the guy is truly curious about the paranormal and really wants to experience it. But to refer to this place as the most haunted he's ever been in made me cringe. That's not his fault. I just don't think he's really been to a truly haunted place.
There wasn't a single element presented to make the place haunted other than stories and everybody believing everything the witch investigator said. The scene where she is in headphones and nobody else can hear what she is hearing had me close to turning it off. She kept saying out loud what she was hearing, but they never once presented the actual audio she was listening to. Kane and everybody else just took her word for it. She also claimed to feel cold spots, but nobody even investigated that in the slightest. And of course, the witch investigator turned everything she was "hearing" into something about Kane.
I'm baffled as to why so much time of the documentary was spent on the doors opening and closing. It was evident they do this all day and all night long. Clearly, a breeze was the culprit. Commercial kitchen doors just about anywhere do this with one opening and the other closing, etc. It's simple physics.
Kane in the "forbidden" room. He only spent a little over 30 minutes "investigating" the room. He even states that it was easier to move around in there during the day. By saying that, it completed negated the whole build up and tension of "nobody is ever allowed in that room" narrative.
In the ballroom, when they pick up a third "anomaly" next to the dancers, it is clearly the "christmas lights" wrapped around the pillar. You see those vividly early on in the documentary during the tour.
With the location closed for business and up for sale, one has to wonder what the motives were for releasing this. My guess is nobody in the small town of Balsam is interested and putting this out there and trying to make the location famous would help sell the property.
Now I will say it was a relief to see this not be over the top and blown out of proportion like the paranormal TV shows. The production was quite good for a documentary, although it did drag and linger in spots that really didn't need that much focus.
I think the director has a future. In my opinion he just needs a truly haunted location with real investigators to make it interesting. There really wasn't much investigating in this and with the word investigation in the title it can confuse the viewer. It was more sitting around and talking and relying on a random talk box to lead the cast into whatever direction they wanted to take the narrative.
I did enjoy Kane's curiosity and he was truly the only part I felt was authentic in the entire film.
