A reality TV series pilot films in an abandoned mental institution. It appears you are allowed to pick your poison:

3 girls died in a fire. A patient killed a nurse. They experimented on patients. They developed an experimental vaccine. The building acted as a crematorium. Lumber jacks trapped inside resorted to cannibalism. and oh yea, the original house was used for devil worship. How they forgot the aliens is beyond me.

What really made this unbelievable is the fact Trent Reznor didn't live there.

Only the 3 girls seem to be a factor in all of this, no burly lumberjacks ghosts looking for a meal. The film squandered early moments by not building character, leaving us with a bunch of people we don't know. In spite of the fact this should have been a professional film crew, the film is worse than a U-Tube phone camera up load.

The film moves slow so they must interject later scenes of ghosts to hold our interest, becoming its own plot spoiler. There were far too many purple tinted scenes of a herky-jerky camera showing cut-off faces.

A desperation rental choice.

Parental Guide: F-bombs. No sex or nudity.

When the trailer came out about two years ago, A lot people were compared it to Grave Encounter.

I was not big fan of Graven Encounter but that movie is a masterpieces to compared to The Crying dead (2011)

The dead won't be the only ones crying after this movie, as you be crying for wasting time on this rubbish.

The open scenes was really weired and the only decent part of the movie, Before title come up, we see fast forward scene from later in the movie.

Then get a bunch of people auditioning for new Ghost hunting show.

65% of nothing happing in this movie, boring plot very unlikeable people, who could not act, or actors pretending to be as Bad actors as they could .

There was not one second of a eerie feeling in this movie even WHEN the ghost showed up, effect were really badly done.

Then if the ghost don't show up, these people end up getting blown or drag away, that was so many time in less then a few minutes is gets tedious and boring, dose not scarce anyone.

2 out of 10

There are some moments near the end that could have been really scary, but they don't pull them off well which is really too bad because they set them up well and fail to follow through. The movie isn't terrible, but hugely disappointing.

Example: When the guy and the girl get cut off at the top of the stairs, and she turns around with the camera, they could have made that scene really terrifying, but instead opt to have it almost all unseen, and it lacks punch, like the rest of the scares, there's no punch, so I felt let down by the build up.

I think if they could have had a bit more intelligent twists in the story, it could have been real good, instead it's a very poor, mediocre film.

The sound effects sounded ripped off from World of Warcraft too. Such as when you die in WOW, I swear they used that for this movie.

Ultimately it could have been great, but instead I can't recommend it. Pretty lazy effort.