Three ghost hunters come to a small town in search of answers in an abandoned house where the owners vanished into thin air. In The Last Ghost Hunters, an inexpensive feature that knows how to make a thirty dollars look creepy when it runs out of money, we get mostly what you’d expect with bad acting, low fi effects and not the best of storylines but filmmaker Dan T. Hall does manage some decent flashbacks to some of the home’s more diabolical memories shocking imagery is linked together through quick cuts and these are done with either haunt house level practical effects or rough CG, but both are only flashed to on the screen, so they don’t stick around long enough for us to pick them apart.
There are some really effective little moments that set a very dark mood as the ghost hunters prepare their investigation. it works in that it causes a sense of unease like they really are going into someplace dangerous and dark.
That said this is a hard one to swallow. Instead of trying to play things up as real ghost investigation everything is hyped up about 11. But honestly what IS a real ghost investigation? The back patting schmaltzery of ScyFy’s Ghost Hunters or the dude bro eyry of Ghost Adventures I guess top the heap but they are far from feeling legit. In The Last Ghost Hunters, all of the usual tricks like EVPs and flashlight signaling are used since its supposed to be the spirit of a little girl they’re trying communicate with so they use a toy ball instead. These tools of the ghost hunting trade parallel what you would see on TV but seem to work too well & almost immediately.
What gets distracting & annoying though is when mystic powers get brought into it like I understand some ghost hunters bring people who believe they have abilities such as being able to read feelings/sensations/auras. But Ghost Hunter Faith (Moli Hall) goes full on Doctor Strange here holding back demons putting up barriers, and making potions to battle with the paranormal.
The original title of The Last Ghost Hunters was Greek Fire Demon Spirit it refers to the MOAB of herb hardware against evil spirits but unfortunately sounds like a cooking show so I understand why they changed it.
While THE LAST GHOST HUNTERS does stretch the buck effectively and creates a good spooky mood, it gets wonky with it’s actual story and takes quite a few goofy liberties with ghost hunting in general. I’m glad they went with doing this one cinematically rather than found footage but this is just for the ghost hunting completists out there, if such things exist.
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