Ex inferis (2011)

Ex inferis: Directed by Leonardo Araneo. With Giovanni Araneo, Aran Bert, Giovanni Guidelli, Jennifer Mischiati. Six ex-classmates decide to spend some holidays together in a manor house in the countryside. Very soon, the jovial mood progressively deteriorates as strange paranormal phenomena start to happen.

“BACK FROM HELL is an Italian stab at the found footage genre, concerning a group of friends who hole up at a historic house in the countryside and soon encounter a sinister demonic presence who takes over one of their own. The viewer is thereafter subject to endless shaky-cam footage, those clichéd camera u0026#39;problemsu0026#39;, and lots of dodgy acting.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe odd choice was made to shoot this in English with an Italian cast, all of whom struggle with thick accents and the vagueness of the script. I actually found the whining voices to be pretty annoying and I wanted to punch out the characters after about half an hour in their company. The cinematography is poor, with 90% of the film taking place in the dark so you canu0026#39;t see whatu0026#39;s meant to be happening, and nothing much happens. BACK FROM HELL seems to go on forever until an abrupt and unsatisfying climax, and it really is a patience tester for audiences.”