Rental Review - The Gallows
The Gallows (2015), PG-13, 81 minutes - When I realized that this past Friday was the thirteenth, I sent my wife a text jokingly wishing her a Happy Friday the 13th. She replied with 'scary movie night!', and with that I found myself picking up this movie from the nearest Redbox, continuing our annual October scary movie binge into November. The Gallows is a low budget, found-footage horror flick that revolves around events taking place at Beatrice High School. It begins with the recording of the school's 2003 presentation of a play called 'The Gallows', which ended in tragedy as a prop malfunction kills one of the performers, Charlie Grimille. Jump to twenty years later, 2013, and the school is preparing a new performance of the play in honor of the anniversary of that tragic night. The current presentation has been organized by theater teacher Mr. Schwendiman (co-writer/co-director Travis Cluff) and student Pfiefer Ross (Pfeifer Brown). Inexplic...