User Reviews

I wasn't expecting much from this once I saw that it was made from the people at The Asylum but I was pleasantly surprised. The movie itself wasn't really scary and the ghost makeup wasn't the best but for a movie that was shot in 12 days it kept me mildly entertained. Two things really bugged me though. The one actress with the pig tails was horrible. She was brutal to watch while she tried to act. The second thing is the final girl at the end never noticed the picture sitting in the front waiting area that had the picture of the girl who looked like her. How can you have worked there for four months giving tours and never noticed the picture or had a tour guest point it out? I can honestly say that this was a step up for the Asylum and would like to see them continue with a higher level of films.

Worst acting possible. We got this movie as a horror, turned out to be a comedy to us. 1. The redhead and all her faces and over acting were so comical it was unbelievable. Making faces and nodding like a looney during all scenes- oh dear it was funny. 2. Has anyone taught these actors that there is no need to make a pause after everyones lines? 3. Holy Dark Knight, the scene when the paranormal geek confronts the ghost was the silliest thing I have ever seen. 4. I can't say enough about how lame this was.

Save you time and $$ unless you just want to laugh- which I don't think was the point of the movie.

The beginning of the movie is captivating, promising a truly chilling horror story based on a real location. The sudden illness of a tourist visiting the home, and the creepy conversation between a new tour employee and a seasoned guide, in period costumes, sets the stage for what could have been an awesome film. Immediately, the momentum is lost as a group of young people discuss nipples (really?). It's all downhill from here. If you like asking the question "who would really do that or say that" over and over again, or you just want background noise while you do something else, this is your film. Otherwise, save your film viewing time for something better, which should not be too difficult to find.

"The Haunting Of Whaley House" is about a young adult named 'Penny' who works in the Whaley House as a tour guider, later on: Penny discovers that seizures and accidents happens constantly during the house tours. Penny is then later persuaded by her friends to intrude the Whaley House at night: to see if the house is truly haunted. I later discovered that The cast and crew of "The Haunting Of Whaley House" is actually one huge family! whether they are close friends or related to one-another: Marion 'The Ghost Girl' is actually the director's daughter and one of the visitors 'the lady with the camera' (on the tour) is his wife.

"The Haunting Of Whaley House" was shot on a budget of 115,000 dollars and twelve days to shoot the entire film: Jose Prendes "The Director" him-self quoted "Actually, everything you pointed out was forced on me by The Asylum. They made me kill tons of people and they told me (the day before starting production I might add) that I had to have nudity in the movie, and it wouldn't make sense for the main cast to get naked, so I had to shoehorn a scene where a chick gets topless. I tried to make it as obvious as possible what I was doing with that without saying "hey, tits!". As for the Oil Man sequence, that is my greatest regret. With 12 days we had to rush A LOT! And that final scene with Penny was shot in 2 hours, which unfortunately means we had to shear away 6 pages of action. It was a huge, tragic loss for me."

No matter what Jose Prendes believes about 'cutting out all the action in the ending', it was still a magnificent film: it shows where talent can take you in Hollywood. It would've been great to see what happened with the extended ending scene - ...Maybe Jose himself can tell us on his Facebook Fanpage on what truly happened in the six pages cut out. Check out Jose Prendes upcoming project 'Hansel & Gretel' featuring Dee Wallace, Stephanie Greco 'Penny in The Haunting Of Whaley House' and Brent Lydic dropping out January 8th, 2013.

The Haunting Of Whaley House 10/10 -Trent Browning

I soon got bored halfway through and stopped watching it. Now I'm having more fun reading the reviews than I did watching the first part of the film. The beginning scene was just silly and it felt like a comedy. After the boring credits finished, I was somewhat briefly entertained by the tourist suffering an epileptic fit after seeing a chair move. I thought it was going to be scary. Right after that I was proved wrong. We had this annoying LONG scene of the house employee chatting to her friends, who were all annoying. Only one of the other girls, the quiet dark haired friend was a bit more intelligent. The two guys were immature and the red haired girl was behaving like a kid. It makes you wonder why the house/museum employee lost her brain cells in allowing her stupid friends into the house at night. The rest was just over the top gore and made no sense. It was truly awful. Don't waste eating any popcorn with this.

It's Asylum, don't expect any thing good. Asylum is quite possible the worst production company on earth. No talented directors, writers, actors. The stories are complete trash and generic. It just infuriates me that these films get made. They don't even try to make good films, they don't have talent and their hearts aren't in it. Hollywood is a degenerate place now, it's 95 percent horrible people. And 5 percent good people. It's all about money. Oh well, lets get to this film.

SPOILERS AHEAD

I could predict every moment in this film, I knew how the first three characters were going to act in the first second of the film. Luckily we never see them again. There are no scares, no atmosphere, no nothing. Penny is our hero, she is a complete idiot. She doesn't believe in ghosts, and there for breaks their code or whatever. And that gets every killed. This is exactly like TCM(2003), one person gets everyone else killed. The characters are annoying, one of them I wanted to physically hurt, that's not a good sign. The ending is absolutely hilarious, I'll get to that in a minute. It's one of those movies that doesn't accomplish anything, and it leaves feeling like a idiot.

THE STORY: So penny is pressured into breaking into the haunted house she works at, so some overly ecstatic guy can get his Joly's. The first half of the film is poorly done, the house is small and cramped. The ghosts never have any motive for what they are doing. Keith the psychic says they aren't evil, yet they do bad things. It doesn't make any sense. Giselle is the only good character, she knows not to be messing around with stuff that can't be explained. She is the only one that knows something bad is going to happen. But she falls down the stairs and breaks her neck. I felt sorry for her. Then Craig cries like a b-tch because he might get accused of her death. He then pulls a Sorority row plot point, and wants to dispose of the body. No one else wants to do it, so I'll give them props. But I seriously wanted someone to beat Craig down, I hate that guy so much. Vanessa was just plain strange, can't act or just told to be weird, I don't know. So at this point I realized, hey there's no nudity. Wow thats a first for this company. But oh wait, some random woman with ugly fake breasts flaunts around. I should have saw that coming. So everyone is killed in completely ridiculous ways, and that leaves penny as the last one standing. She actually manages to fend off the ghosts and some skinless demon. But do you want to know her fate, it was like I just got coned by a con man. She trips down the stairs and dies (I'm laughing while writing this), what a klutz. It's not bad enough Giselle died that way, Penny died like that too. I can't get over how dumb that was, but it was unexpected that she would die like that. I thought the ghosts would take her right after she walked outside the house and say something like "it's over". And now she is permanently attached to the house, forever in this purgatory. Sucks to be her.

I didn't expect much, so Asylum didn't disappoint there. It's just a average bad movie, not' much else to it.

A very confusing story with lots of unanswered questions For example at the end it seemed only Penny's body was discovered. It's shown in a body bag outside the house. What about the others killed that night including the two policemen? Were they in the house? Was Penny the only one? Did Penny dream it all? Did Penny die by falling down the stairs like Giselle? Etc, etc. The film relies on jump scares (that aren't scary) and occasional bits of gore which aren't gory. It had a death by water pump scene which was gory but it was too hilarious to take seriously. In fact at first I thought the film was going to be a comedy but it wasn't. The acting was plainly poor except for Howard McNair as Keith Drummond the psychic who was the most interesting character.

In the first three minutes a character referenced Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. Ha-ha. Well, this movie isn't up to their standards. Even up to their occasional low standards. This is a ghost story that leaves the spine chill-less,

A skeptical tour guide Penny(Stephanie Greco)is a bit unsettled when she thinks she sees dark figures and hears strange noises in the infamous Whaley House. Penny abuses her position to give several of her friends a private tour. Her friends will conduct some amateur ghost hunting. Things will go bump in the night; strange smells and scary sounds will cause some very stupid and bad decisions. This ghost hunt turns into more horror than imagined. These young people just were not ready to deal with the supernatural. Bodies will start piling up.

Not so much a terrible movie, it started out a bit slow before getting spooky. The story was better than average, the dialogue wasn't all that much and the acting was hit and miss. But still the movie is enjoyable.

In the cast are: Alex Arleo, Arielle Brachfeld, Carolina Groppa, Jason Owsley, Lynn Lowry, Howard McNair and Graham Denman.

Note: Miss Brachfeld has been said that during filming she heard low whispers, felt her hair being pulled and her thighs being touched.

The Asylum seems to be making a lot of movies. Given this, you'd think they're making a profit on what they produce. Why not use some of this profit to hire actors with acting skill? Seriously! The entire cast sounds like they're reading the script cold... or phonetically! And while you're at it, bring in a real writer, someone who know how to avoid exposition.

Whaley House is supposed to be the most haunted house in the country. So a bunch of kids sneak in (with the help of an employee) to see if it really is haunted. Problem is, I got so bored before anything happened that I started reading the directions on a bottle of screen cleaning spray.

I understand that The Asylum cannot make an original film and resorts to making 'mock-busters.' This doesn't mean it can't make a good mock-buster. It should try... even a little.