By Geno McGahee
I’m like the rest of you horror fans out there…impulse shoppers that often get suckered in by new horror entries. The fancy cover art…interesting synopsis…and the glimmer of hope that we may have stumbled across something good. PARANORMAL ASYLUM: THE REVENGE OF TYPHOID MARY was a title that I came across that had some pretty neat cover art and wasn’t a found footage film. It got a point right there. I’m so tired of these freaking paranormal found footage shit fests.
Well that point is about all this one gets. Two guys, Mark (Aaron Mathias) and Andy (Nathan Spiteri), putting together a documentary about Typhoid Mary, a woman that met a terrible fate and now haunts the area…something like that. This movie is pretty empty from jump with none of the dialogue moving the movie forward. A lot of it just seems to be there to kill time and after an hour of watching this, I was exactly where I started. Nothing happened and the film was still spinning its wheels.
Andy’s girl gets possessed by Typhoid Mary in the last third of this, leading to an amusing finale, but I have not seen a movie so empty in a long time. This film, to its credit, had a script and wasn’t going for a found footage, ad-libbed ghost story, but the screenplay was terrible and it was difficult to get through.
PARANORMAL ASYLUM: THE REVENGE OF TYPHOID MARY is a generic horror film, lacking any originality. It is a soulless film that will leave you feeling empty. This was obviously created by filmmakers that wanted to cash in on horror and didn’t respect the genre. You can see that there is no heart invested. It was painfully obvious. Avoid this one people. It’s horrible.
Rating; 2/10
