An amateur two-person team of ghost hunters with a public access style show come across a young woman with no recollection as to why she’s wandering around the area where the friends were attempting to film some interesting footage. She claims she’s from a nearby hospital in the woods but gets tense when they offer to take her back. Instead, the host Tom decides to bring her back to their research center. When they let her know that they’re the kind of journalists who investigate the paranormal, she asks them if they’ve heard about the haunting of Gilchrist House… more importantly the lady in the attic. Tom answers in the affirmative and lets Sandy know they did a feature on the supposed specter that murdered a family one by one a few years back. After an uncomfortable interview, Sandy remembers where her home is and they drop her off. When they come back the next day, an elderly woman answers the door and doesn’t seem to know much of anything. So the two likable derps head out to find the hospital in the woods. All they find is an abandoned building in complete disarray and they head inside to have a look around. An old huntsman with a rifle warns them off of the property but with his producer breathing down his neck, Tom decides to keep digging. A spooky history involving attempted arson to destroy evil, troubling witness accounts and the return of Sandy with an offer of help has things looking up for the Ghost Crew. There’s a mystery concerning the unsolved murder of an unidentified young woman at the hospital when it was in operation and it becomes an obsession for timid Tom. The more he learns, the more we realize this group may be in way over their heads and the bodies start piling up as a vengeful spirit takes the reins. The leads are charming, the subtle comedic bits work right along with the intentional awkwardness and there’s some splashes of well-realized terror but it does drag in bits and could have used a few more thrills. Still, a somewhat impressive indie feature.
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