Grave Encounters
User Score
7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 37 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 37
  3. Negative: 4 out of 37

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  1. Belmsher
    Sep 10, 2011
    3
    Though the plot is a total disaster, every scene too predictable and the dialogues being parodies themselves, I felt it'd be unfair if I rated it < 3 because, yes, there was a couple of scenes which made me jump out of my seat. Anyway, the trailer is way more frightening than the whole movie itself. What's not that surprising after all since, at the end of the day, most of the horror movies nowadays are predictably plain stupid.… Expand
  2. Darkstarshades
    Oct 3, 2011
    2
    The doctor at the end screamed in a way that highly resembled the original girl of the trailer, that's an example of somebody that simply reused the original concept of the movie in something awful, the movie is predictable and... stupid.

    My god, low budget movies aren't always bad, but the part where the hands were coming out of the walls, that looked so fake, they attempted to block it     with these annoying camera flashes, but they failed to do so, also... their batteries are eternal.… Expand

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Metascore
33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 4 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Sep 8, 2011
    30
    As the uniformly annoying characters stumble around, screaming and cursing, we don't give a hoot for their survival. Quite the reverse: we're counting the minutes until the asylum's ghostly inhabitants silence them for good.
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  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    Sep 6, 2011
    30
    True terror needs at least some authenticity. That's perhaps too much to ask of a faked movie about a faked reality show that still can't scare up a fresh idea.
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  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Sep 6, 2011
    38
    Twelve long years after "The Blair Witch Project" pushed the first-person-POV subgenre to horror's forefront, and four years after [Rec] expertly refined the formula, Grave Encounters can't even pretend to be anything other than hopelessly derivative.
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