Every time a movie starts and you straight away see it's yet another "found footage" flick you just want to go back in time and punch those Blair Witch kids right in their faces.
The Gallows is quite simply, yet another found footage film. We open on a home movie from 1993 showing a school production of a play (The Gallows), during the proceedings one of the young actors gets himself stuck in the (for some reason perfectly working and authentic) hangman's noose and cops it.
Fast forward to 2014 and the same school is putting on the same play - one of the school's football players is starring in the play so his little gang of friends decide to creep into the school and disrupt the set.
Guess what happens?
There's a bit of a weak story surrounding it although most of the action is as you'd expect - kids running around for some reason still holding and filming with a video camera while being incapable of ever finding a light switch.
Basically it's one of those films that, despite maybe one good jump-scare, once it's over you say "well, that was rubbish and pointless"
2/10 Masks
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