616: Paranormal Incident (2013) User Reviews

There is no point to this movie -

[aesgaard41 · 2/10 · 23 October 2016]

This is one of the most boring ghost movies I've ever seen. The strange thing is that it's set up like some sort of action movie with an FBI team invading a derelict prison for what seems to be a forensic investigation but in fact turns into a paranormal investigation. Right from the start, the movie has lost all credibility, and with that gone, the chances for a decent ghost story are practically out the window. In fact, the movie doesn't even start with ghosts but with a porn scene, right off the start insulting its core audience. The FBI team investigating the location describe vague events of a major riot in the prison and end up discovering a female vagrant living on the site, the woman from the first scene, and with no reason whatsoever, they lock her up in a cell until they figure out what to do with her. From here, the movie has no conscionable plot; it seems as if it's being made up as its going along by three to four directors each making their own movie. The agents report unseen haunting activity and start getting picked off by experiencing terrible visions of death or aspects of their greatest wishes turned against them that take them far beyond the prison. One African-American guard, for example, is spirited far beyond the prison to the 1960s South where he's murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Another is butchered by the willowy ladies he thinks were going to seduce him. This is probably the only interesting aspect of the movie which also treads through one female agent getting possessed, a reported cycle of disasters that occur the same years apart and a presence that reportedly alters the perceptions of reality in the agents. This is one of the most incoherent, poorly executed so- called horror movies I've ever seen. The acting is tedious, the plot confusing, the profanity endless and the ending poorly conceived. The setting was filmed in the former Linda Vista Community Hospital in Los Angeles, and despite supposedly being abandoned, parts of it look like an empty doctor's office while others look like an empty parking garage. Bottom line: this is not a movie. This is more like the first draft of a movie before recasting, re-scripting and adding the special effects. The majority of this movie is just plain awful; more evidence that some people just should not be actors or directors.

Ok movie, hoooorrible sound

[mindybinwv · 3/10 · 17 October 2021]

Recognizable actors like Thomas Downey and Rib Hillis aren't really an A List line up, but you'd think if they could afford to cast faces you recognize they could afford qualified sound people. This movie has the sound quality of a found footage movie filmed on goodwill vhs cam by drunk 1980's highschool kids.

If you hate yourself, watch this movie.

[nursestacy73 · 1/10 · 24 February 2013]

This is by far, the lamest movie I have watched in a long time! Let's start with the cast: It looks like the casting came from the throw-aways of a porn movie. These "FBI" agents are more like a group of college-kid-wannabe's. The lead agent is a Huey Lewis-looking character with random acts of dramatic outbursts. The evil entity is completely devoid of any frightening characteristics. Now the setting: The set (which is supposed to be an abandoned criminal prison) is extremely clean, freshly painted, and has new, completely intact furniture. As if that weren't unbelievable enough, the audio-visual equipment that these "agents" are using is the best Radio Shack could have offered on the clearance aisle. For the plot: The premise is that of an abandoned mental asylum that is due for demolition, a demolition only the can only be carried out by an elite FBI team of parapsychologists. Wait, what? I won't divulge any of the plot points, because there simply aren't any. If you have about an hour and half to spend and completely hate yourself, then by all means take this horrendous journey into lameness.

Lead FBI agent with a Tramp Stamp?

[ihearthorrorfilm · 1/10 · 23 February 2013]

HOT MESS ALERT! This found footage film was obviously low budget, but when they go low budget, do they have to go low budget on the screenplay too?!? I mean, 3 minutes into the film, it literally switches to a porn setup. We go to a hand held camera shot of a fake foreign sounding dude following a hot babe around while she continuously keeps flashing him. If I wanted to watch a porno, Id go watch one, but I came to watch a horror movie. I don't like to mix the two together, and yet, some horror filmmakers think that they go together like zombies & brains. Anyhoo, back to the mess, so then the film goes to investigating an abandon prison by the FBI and the FBI's cameras… yeah, I'm still confused. When the lead FBI Agent bends over and the camera focuses in on her tramp stamp that was it for me. I made it 22:10 into the movie and that's only because I really wanted to give a full review, but I just couldn't make it. This is definitely one you want to pass on.

1 outta 10

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Oh my god

[Nixonbrian42 · 1/10 · 15 March 2013]

I really have nothing against softcore porn. If that's your thing then go for it, but attempting to pass it off as a low budget horror film makes one wonder what Redbox will have in store for the public in the future. This isn't a movie, it's a softcore porn production. Every actor and actress in this honestly looks like they came directly from Seduction Cinema. There is no story. The image and audio presentation of the live footage is quite possibly the worst I have ever seen or heard. My smart phone videos look like IMAX compared to this film. I guess the director (if that's what his job title is) thinks that the blurrier the picture or audio is the creepier the movie will be. The live footage scenes are captured by glasses that have swap meet quality cameras on them. The shock sequences (the ones that are not blurry) involve sex and running up to the camera to show the viewer their pale colored contact lenses.

Since this is just fluffy porn then I'll rate it as such..…the girls are hot. The hottest is the one locked up in the cell with the pretty legs. Second best would be the one watching her outside the cell.

Pure trash (which is a compliment if you're in the mood for sleaze).

Normally I don't, but this time I have to

[riddlebox53204 · 1/10 · 8 April 2013]

I came across this at the local Redbox, because they didn't have the movie I intended to rent. I liked the cover picture and the description was decent. I am into paranormal movies and decided that I would rent this, as there were no other movies that raised my interest.

I started the DVD while getting things from the kitchen and my girlfriend said that I missed a big fake breast shot. Not really wanting to rewind, I continued watching from where it was. Within 2 minutes I saw that the lighting was horrible and the acting was subpar, but I gave it about 1 more minute when I saw the skin-tight suit that the "FBI" agent was wearing. Immediately after that it showed another "agent" in a van watching video footage and he had some tattoos on his fingers.

I decided at that moment that I would go rent all the other DVDs of this out of the Redbox, take them home, and burn them all. I don't care that it cost me $16 a DVD, just so that no one else would be duped into renting this movie and wasting $1.25 plus tax. This movie is not even worthy of being on VHS. I am tempted to write some hate mail to reimburse me for the money I lost.

Conclusion: Do not rent this movie. Do not even streamline it. The people who filmed it should pay you to pirate it.

Another "Found Footage" Mishap

[waldenbergerm · 1/10 · 22 February 2013]

What can I say that probably already hasn't been said of "found footage" movies. Some can carry it off, at least enough so you stay focused on what you are watching and can view it to the very end. Others? Not so much. I watched 616 Paranormal Incident in the hope that the trailer I saw gave me some indication of what to expect. I was deceived. The flow and premise of the story makes it unbelievable from the start. The characters and the roles they play are neither believable nor are they interesting enough to compel you to really "get into" this movie. It's almost as if every moment designed to make you jump and gasp in fright is like every other you've seen with movies of this genre and after a while you are left with a feeling of "been there, done that, not impressed". The location to me looked very much like the notorious Linda Vista Hospital in L.A., a notoriously active paranormal location that is soon to become apartments. To me, that would have made a better story for a movie than this did. I mean imagine it, creepy hospital shut down over charges of mistreatment of patients and with a long list of potential candidates for haunting it gets bought by a developer with designs on turning that facility into an apartment complex. That my friends is fodder for a real scary movie! Some may fault the actors in this film for not delivering the movie as it was intended. It isn't their fault, you can only do so much with what you have and even the best actor in the realm of television or big screen could not have carried off this movie and saved it from its obvious lack of substance, story line or anything else that makes for a movie experience the audience can comprehend and enjoy. Don't shoot the messengers for this mishap, the actors did fine given what they had to work with. I thought that the makeup was somewhat well done. It was in line with what I have come to expect from these types of films but it was also done well enough that I didn't find myself rolling on the floor laughing at the attempt. This movie, for me, was a one and done. If you have nothing else to watch, it is an option for you but only if you have nothing else to watch.

Here is a paranormal incident for you; try to find anything entertaining in the movie...

[paul_haakonsen · 1/10 · 9 March 2014]

I managed to make it through to 43 minutes into this 'found footage' styled movie titled "616: Paranormal Incident". And I should say that I had at that point picked up my phone and started Facebooking instead.

Yep, the movie was exactly that boring and uneventful.

First of all, this is a 'found footage' movie, a particular genre that I have no love for in any possible way. So that was working against the movie from the very beginning. And it was just fuel to the fire when the movie had one of the worst and least captivating story lines ever seen in the entire horror genre.

A group of FBI agents (or so we are to believe they are) venture into some rundown old building, chasing ghosts.

Indeed, what a lovely storyline right there. The movie just trotted ahead at a mind-numbingly dull pace, with very little happening. And whatever did happen was anything but interesting.

The acting in the movie, was below average for most parts. But hey, isn't that a part of this 'found footage' genre? So far, I can't claim to have been overly impressed with the movies in the genre.

I simply gave up on this movie 43 minutes into it, because I was bored out of my mind and it just got progressively more and more difficult to buy into this movie and much less get entertained by it. And I can't really claim to have any interest in knowing how the movie ended.

This movie was a massive swing and a miss and a failed attempt at entertainment.

DEMONS GONE WILD

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 5 August 2018]

616 is the number of the beast in some early versions of Revelation. A prison that housed 616 inmates is being investigated by the FBI. They viewed another found footage film, the beginning of a porno tape being filmed at said abandoned prison. The FBI opts to go in at night. Each agent has a camera mounted on their glasses. In addition there are still cameras.

The agents divide up to set up cameras. The demons confront them one at a time with each agent facing their own personal demon.

This feature has more eye candy than most found footage film, hence my three perverted stars. The rest of the film left much to be desired. There was no introduction of characters for us to identify with them or to learn about what personal demon they might have.

Remember that an uninterrupted line of salt can stop a demon or a slug.

The women are the only real reason to watch it, and only if its free.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Playmate Kylie Johnson Feb. 2011, Halszka Kuza, Maura Murphy, Zana Salobir)

Do you like low budgets, and found footage?

[echosidewanderer · 8/10 · 4 September 2013]

This is one of those movies for those of you who enjoy the Found Footage Genre. This is also a movie for people who are not scared off by lower budget films. I absolutely loved this movie. It has an interesting take on the found footage genre b using glasses mounted cameras, which allows for an interesting side of the paranormal. The acting isn't the best, but I have seen much, much worse.

I would have to say without a doubt that my favorite aspect of this movie is that the characters cross into the realm of the paranormal entities giving a new spin on haunted building movies. Obviously there are going to be a few flaws that might bother people such as the FBI Parapsychologist with a tramp stamp, but in general, this is not a bad film. I would highly recommend 616"Paranormal Incident to anyone who is a fan of the found footage genre, and enjoys seeing new twists on the typical haunted building movies.