If you look around online for information about Paranormal Investigation then you won’t find too much out there. That isn’t surprising, considering how insubstantial and eminently forgettable the film is.
Some friends decide to have fun times with a spirit board, which always goes well in horror movies, and one of them, Dylan (Jean-Baptiste Heuet), soon starts to act in a way that worries those around him. It ends up falling to Andrei (Andrei Indreies) to get to the bottom of things, and hopefully save Dylan’s soul.
I picked Paranormal Investigation as part of my viewing schedule for two reasons. One, it was fairly short (I wanted something at around the 90-minute mark). Two, I wanted to add some world cinema to the mix, realising I had mainly stuck with English language movies for my Halloween horrors so far this year. I wish I had taken the time to find something better.
Writer-director Franck Phelizon seems to have had one overdone idea, and somehow figured he could craft a worthwhile film around it. He was wrong. This film could easily have been a 10-minute short, which would have been much more enjoyable, but we are instead stuck with a feature that feels stuffed full of padding, none of which is at all interesting.
It doesn’t help that Heuet and Indreies are unable to bring anything to their under-written roles. Neither manage to feel as strong and forceful as they should, and that leaves viewers watching everything play out without any one character to really root for, especially as the supporting cast soon disappears. The focus stays on Dylan and Andrei, to detrimental effect.
It is okay to do a movie that doesn’t have obvious scares or jumps. You can, instead, create tension and atmosphere. You can walk carefully towards a rewarding finale, increasing the creep factor until everyone starts to digest the full impact of what they just watched while the end credits roll. This doesn’t do that, leaving it as a whole lot of nothing.
Don’t bother investigating this one.
2/10
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