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The Lost Episode

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 17m
IMDb RATING
2.6/10
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Beverley Mitchell and Haylie Duff in The Lost Episode (2012)
Horror

For decades, Pennhurst psychiatric hospital has been haunted by turbulent supernatural forces. When a television crew embarks on a mission to capture this paranormal activity, they discover ... Read allFor decades, Pennhurst psychiatric hospital has been haunted by turbulent supernatural forces. When a television crew embarks on a mission to capture this paranormal activity, they discover something completely unexpected.For decades, Pennhurst psychiatric hospital has been haunted by turbulent supernatural forces. When a television crew embarks on a mission to capture this paranormal activity, they discover something completely unexpected.

  • Director
    • Michael Rooker
  • Writers
    • Joe Nelms
    • Sue Bailey
  • Stars
    • Beverley Mitchell
    • Haylie Duff
    • Jimmy Palumbo
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    2.6/10
    553
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Michael Rooker
    • Writers
      • Joe Nelms
      • Sue Bailey
    • Stars
      • Beverley Mitchell
      • Haylie Duff
      • Jimmy Palumbo
    • 13User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Beverley Mitchell
    Beverley Mitchell
    • Sarah
    Haylie Duff
    Haylie Duff
    • Megan
    Jimmy Palumbo
    Jimmy Palumbo
    • Scott
    J. LaRose
    J. LaRose
    • Willard
    Amanda Dunn
    Amanda Dunn
    • Jesse
    • (as Amanda Smith)
    Michael McKiddy
    Michael McKiddy
    • Badger
    Robb Pruitt
    • Elden
    Michael Rooker
    Michael Rooker
    • Dr. Death
    Jessica Funtenatto
    • Amelia
    Heather Ichihashi
    • Jasmine
    Sarah Van Auken
    • Jenny
    Craig Newman
    Craig Newman
    • Cody
    Andrew Tardif
    • Jake
    Andrew Betz
    • Vincent
    Ryan Windish
    Ryan Windish
    • Gordy
    Catherine LaValle
    • Mother
    Patrick McDade
    Patrick McDade
    • Sheriff
    Tim Smith Jr.
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    • Director
      • Michael Rooker
    • Writers
      • Joe Nelms
      • Sue Bailey
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    2Platypuschow

    The Lost Episode: Enough of the same movie again and again!

    The Lost Episode is the 7th movie in the Paranormal Investigations franchise. A series of unconnected movies, all hyper low budget, ghost themed and terrible.

    Well this is terrible that's for certain but it does have a couple of differences from the others. For a start it had a clean million budget, this is a great deal higher than the rest, though to be honest you'd never tell. Second and here's where it gets weird, this straight to the bargain bin 7th movie in a awful franchise was directed by Michael Rooker. Yes star of Guardians of the Galaxy, Walking Dead, Mallrats and countless other films in his only director role, and he stars in it as well! I'd love to know the story behind that, it's so bizarre. It's like Spielberg suddenly deciding to direct an Evil Bong movie!

    Outside of the addition of Rooker however this just yet another movie about people going to an abandoned asylum and getting picked off. However it's badly disjointed due to ultimately telling several stories at the same time both past and present, and the fact the cover suggests this is found footage it begs the question of where is the footage?

    Sorry Mr Rooker but your directorial debut is an embarrassing mess that has nothing to set it apart from the other thousand copy and paste movie of its ilk.

    The Good:

    Michael Rooker

    The Bad:

    A found footage with no found footage

    Stock screams

    Recycled nonsense

    Ridiculously disjointed
    5wowser-76037

    Undecided

    Far from being a critic of this movie, I'm even MORE of a critic of the asinine people attempting to criticize a movie when they can't even spell or use sentence structure. I know I'm not perfect, but DAMN PEOPLE!! At LEAST learn the language if you are going to make comments about a movie!! While the movie itself is not a master work of art, at least the movie tries to have a decent plot twist unlike some of these high budget pieces of garbage that are made by studios with huge wallets. And also unlike the high budget crappy movies, the low budget movies at least try to have original ideas, even if some are dangerously close to clones of other movies. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how good or how bad a movie is, it matters what the movie is to the VIEWER. And again - LEARN HOW TO TYPE IN UNDERSTANDABLE, STRUCTURED SENTENCES, ya twits.
    2atinder

    Poor

    I thought this movie was going to be one of those Hand-Held Camera but however they try to make it out it is like ones of those movies.

    I thought the plot was okay, they had decent idea of twist in this movie, even thought twist is very predicable from start of the movie.

    Number of people go to this building to film before they go into the building this tall guy tells not to go in and yet he goes in there with them.

    Thought out the movie loud noise and people screaming and the mad doctor is stalking this place after all these year!

    One by one they all getting killed by this made doctor in this haunted place, torture scenes were really badly done too.

    The movie was very boring and wasn't actually stopped watching the movie, while cleaning up and having this on in the back ground for most of time.

    The acting in this movie was really bad, it had laughing for most of the times, when the over act the lines

    2 out 10
    2Leofwine_draca

    Avoid at all costs

    THE LOST EPISODE is another in a long line of no-budget found-footage ghost films set in abandoned asylums, following on from the likes of the GRAVE ENCOUNTERS films and EPISODE 50. This one's the worst yet, despite the presence of cult horror favourite Michael Rooker (HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER) working as both director and guest star.

    This film features a muddled narrative set in both past and present, repeatedly swapping between the two time zones. One narrative involves a film crew shooting a documentary in the asylum, the other involves the stereotypical group of teenagers out for a thrill. Lots of lame wandering around and godawful dialogue scenes are interspersed with some extraordinarily lame deaths.

    The movie's cast is appalling, with not one actor standing out from the quagmire. Rooker wisely hides his face behind a mask for the most part, but as a director he displays no discernible talent whatsoever; stick to what you're good at, dude, i.e. stay in FRONT of the camera where we want to see you! Needless to say there's nothing else worth mentioning here, because it's an entirely worthless film and comes close to meriting the dreaded 'one star' rating.
    1alansmithee04

    Just...don't.

    Not a found footage movie, but rather a movie based upon what's become one of the more standard found footage movie plots. What am I talking about? Only this...

    Pennhurst is about a group of obnoxious teens who go to an abandoned mental hospital to screw around. While there, the most obnoxious of the bunch tells the story of a TV "ghost hunting" crew who visited that selfsame hospital and were brutally murdered. Pretty standard, yes? No! This film doesn't even try to maintain the found footage conceit. Badly chosen music, meant to be scary I suppose, crops up on the soundtrack throughout. And speaking of scary, there ain't none. Maybe two or three scenes, all of them staring the film's director/star Michael Rooker, could be considered at all scary and then only if they were taken out of context with rest of the film.

    If Pennhurst has a saving grace, it's that at least the cast looked like they were having fun shooting it. Which is good, because I doubt anyone else will enjoy it as much.

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    • Trivia
      Beverly Mitchell had real paranormal experiences when filming this movie. She was on the show The Haunting Of (2012), where she went back to Penhurst Asylum to tell her story.
    • Connections
      Followed by Preston Castle (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Take Your Life
      Written by Joshua Caleb Smith

      Performed by Running Like Ravens

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    • Release date
      • September 16, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Pennhurst
    • Production company
      • Primary Pictures (II)
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      • $1,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 17 minutes
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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