Exeter, also known as The Asylum in the UK (presumably to not reference the southern town) hasn't really got the critic that it deserved. People have dismissed the plot as cliche and overused and the film as dull.
Those people are wrong. In a world overrun by "found footage" style movies an actual movie which isn't filmed by a cast member is a welcome change.
The movie purposely makes fun of and lampoon's the cliche's of horror movies while managing to not drag the tone into that of a spoof. For a few seconds we do get to see the film as filmed by one of the cast before he is told to put the camera away. With lines like "I've never seen a movie where a ouija board experiment ended with the words - I'm really glad I did that" you can spot the tongue in the cheek a mile off.
That said, Exeter delivers a cool flick. A group of friends party in an abandoned asylum, and we can all pretty much guess what sort of nasty surprises lie in wait, especially when it's revealed that one of the patients displayed certain supernatural powers but not before of course, they went missing.
From here on in we have what certainly is a very dark, almost sardonic comedic approach to the genre. An exorcism as instructed by Wikipedia, some amazingly inventive gory deaths and even a few great twists and turns.
Ground breaking it is certainly not but good gory fun it is.
6/10 Masks
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