Filmmaker, Turner Clay, challenges himself to prove that ghosts exist after coming across a spooky and (more importantly) convincing video on YouTube. He decides his next venture will be a documentary about his journey into the world of the supernatural. He gets in contact with the guy in the ghost video but the jerk backs out at the last minute after getting a new job. So, with his original road proving to be a dead end, he puts a halt on the documentary. Two years pass and Turner gets back to completing the film when someone sends him some interesting footage. He makes contact with the sender and heads out from his home base in Kentucky to the supposedly haunted house in Pennsylvania to meet up with the homeowner Greg. Greg gives him a tour of the joint and details the locations of paranormal significance. Greg also shows off that his 1930’s-built house has a well in the basement where the crazy wife of the original homeowner supposedly threw the bodies of some neighborhood children. Some time passes by and Turner gets an email. Looks like Greg is heading out of the country on business and invites Turner and his wife, Terri, to stay at the house so he can document just how haunted the place is. It starts off pretty uneventful but, sure-as-shit, the creepiness starts hitting. A little digging proves the basement’s urban legend to be factual and puts a name to the specter. Successfully pulling off the docu-vibes as the minimalistic horror slowly envelopes our protagonist, The Blackwell Ghost is a delightfully creepy found footage (although, it leans a bit more towards mockumentary in that it isn’t really “found”) horror flick. Running just under an hour, it zips by and never feels like it’s cheating the audience.
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