Farhope Tower (2015) User Reviews

smaller horror

[SnoopyStyle · 4/10 · 17 August 2017]

Five people investigate the paranormal for their internet channel. They get an opportunity at a real TV network. They decide to film something bigger to show to the network. There is the haunted Farhope Tower which has been abandoned since the late 80s due to some unexplained deaths. As they investigate, they are influenced by unknown forces.

This is a smaller Canadian horror. The good news is that this is not found footage. The bad news is that it's not that good. There is nothing scary. The atmosphere doesn't rise to be creepy. The style is blah. The actors are perfectly fine and that's the only good from this. There is nothing exceptional going on here.

Inaccurate - do your research before finalizing your script!

[ginamilligan-38817 · 3/10 · 1 November 2018]

The inaccuracies abound in this film beginning with the network phone call (no network executive would suggest that a team enter a dangerous location - the lawsuits would be astronomical - much less deliver an ultimatum the equivalent of, "If you don't do this, we won't pick up your show." Not 20 minutes later, a character suffers a horrible fall, which results in a visibly splintered open compound fracture. What does the other female character say? "I'm gonna have to reset this." Um...NO! You can't reset a bone that broken! How hard is it to fact-check these types of things? Not hard at all! It takes mere seconds. Come on, folks! You've taken a film with tremendous potential and turned it into something which tempts the viewers to walk out on it out of sheer annoyance.

Mean-spirited and Dumb (But the Acting Was Good)

[tclark55 · 3/10 · 10 February 2024]

First, the GOOD. The acting is good. It also is refreshing to have a film about a ghost-hunting show which is not a found footage/POV film, although there are some parts using that. Finally, it is always refreshing to watch a film not made in southern California.

The BAD. The mean-spirited parts were the gruesome beating/murders of the two women (both who were pregnant). Two of the suicides were gorier than they had to be as well. I do not mind violence and gore (except for animal cruelty such as that in the Italian cannibal genre), but these just seemed unseemly. Maybe I am getting old.

The UGLY, I mean DUMB, parts involved Andre and the song on the record. Andre experienced the horror of Farhope Tower years earlier when Jake became possessed and tried to kill him. When Jake tells his team that they are going to explore Farhope Tower, does he say anything? He blanches and says that the place is dangerous, but does he tell the others on the team what happened previously? No. Later, when Andre is acting strange and it is obvious the horror is beginning again, does Andre warn everyone about Jake and what happened last time? No. Just let the others be oblivious about the danger they are in. NICE GOING, JACKASS.

Andre is not the only idiot who keeps secrets. Jake is only going to the Farhope Tower because a network executive tells him his show won't get the contract if they do not go there. Does Jake tell anyone else about the situation? No, he keeps it to himself. Why? They all know that they are not making money. Wouldn't the news from the network executive make the team more motivated?

Another dumb bit (at least to me) was the song playing on the record. I know it is supposed to be ironic (it is about daydreams), playing during the murders and the hanging suicides, but the song did not sound of the period. It sounded too modern. Of course, one reason I detest Caprio's The Great Gatsby is that they used modern music, so I am just being picky.

One question. Just before the credits, the last shot shows Zoe turn her head with her eyes open. What are we supposed to think? Is she still alive? Good, because she was a nice character; however, the ghosts will probably not allow her to leave. Is she a ghost, too, now? I am overthinking this.

Well....well...what do we have here????

[wandernn1-81-683274 · 2/10 · 8 May 2020]

As another reviewer pointed out, the initial phone call telling this 'crew' of 'investigators' to go film your PILOT here, yeah that sounded like a prank call.

Also yes you dont push a compound leg break back into the leg MEAT and 'reset' it. That's not how that works lol.

-2 Stars so far!

-1 Star for saying the name 'Jake' so many times in the movie I got sick of hearing it

And there was absolutely nothing to save it the last 1/3 of the movie was pretty much crap, including the ending so thats the score it Gets!

Forgettable faux found footage

[killercharm · 2/10 · 14 August 2020]

A ghost-hunting team embarks on a hunt at Farhope Tower that they shouldn't in order to snag a series. Upon arrival at Farhope Tower we immediately get dire warnings from THOSE WHO KNOW. The team walks around in a huge icky venue, shivering in cold-spots, asking for answers in EVP, chasing fleeting visions of each other, and marveling at the Escherian architecture. Until they all, um, never mind. Don't want to give anything away that you couldn't guess before they even entered the jernt.

Not Believable

[misskittencinema · 4/10 · 6 November 2023]

I know that you have to swallow enough just believing the storyline as it is, but when they talk about how there is no electricity in the building, then at almost the same time an actor's head is shown in a halo of light from an exit sign, or something, come on. Then one person fractures their leg, but spends a lot of time squatting to talk to people. Seems like that would be beyond painful. I don't want to bash anybody's work, I know it is hard. Yet there needed to be some editing, producing, directing. The glaring problems, if fixed, could have made this film have a better outcome. I guessed the storyline from right after the flashback. One thing I found great was that the EVPs were loud, not the usual faint sounds. That part was more scary. If the movie was guided more in that way, and didn't allow silly things like background lights, or someone breaking their leg then putting weight on it and squatting down, it may not have been bad. Also a scene where the person who breaks their leg does this hilarious motion with their hands, and arms like Kermit the Frog. That would take you out of any movie. This is why studio movies are shown to audiences. If they had shown even a couple of people they could have made the crew aware. Don't shoot yourself in the foot even before the movie is released.

This Isn't an Investigation Anymore

[mikeledo · 6/10 · 30 June 2017]

The film opens in 1977 with a 1960's stereo. A man kills his wife for being pregnant by another man, then kills himself. In a newspaper clip we discover that the child survived. Since then people have mysterious killed themselves in this building, all above the tenth floor. Five paranormal investigators wanting to make a dynamite pilot film go to this place where others dare not go.

Jake (John White) and Andre (Evan Williams) who lead the group grew up in this area and used to make frequent visits here as kids until...Andre does not want to go back, but is out voted.

The production is NOT found footage although elements creep in. The sound track was fairly rhythmic providing a decent excitement build. Most of the filming looked professional as director/actress April Mullen spends time on both sides of the camera. I did notice a sound goof toward the end when a person was being kicked in the gut, the sound happened before the leg/foot landed. Filmed in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. What I didn't grasp were the outside nighttime scenes as if a vehicle was approaching the tower. What was that about? Guide: No sex or nudity. No F-words that I recall. Just some old fashion woman beating. Soft 3 stars Please note a splint and a stretcher is the proper way to treat a broken leg in the field. Don't let a friend set it and then "see if you can walk."

Adds a new element to Found Footage

[jmbovan-47-160173 · 6/10 · 25 February 2020]

I like these types of films, the paranormal hunter. This adds a minor twist that becomes relevant for the story line and was rather interesting. I just wish they would have stopped at the final note, not added the last tweak.