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Zak Bagans, who appears in the documentary “Demon House” readily admits that he is in the ghost-believing business. In the documentary, he assumes that an old decaying mansion in Gary, Indiana has a ghost story that could help him capitalize on the interest. The home is infamous for its demonic activity and he’s heard rumors that might even suggest it has a portal to hell in the basement. This makes it an ideal setting for a ghost story, but hopes the estate will help prove ghosts are real. This goal is something that “Demon House” definitely falls short off.
Still, he purchased the mansion right before he brought a crew to Indiana. The documentary suggests we all wonder, is it real? So yawning, dragging boredom curious like me does it make you, I can assure everyone, this is a documentary in form, not just footage after “The Blair Witch Project”.
Regardless of the over-sensationalized journalism, discovering the true nature behind the supernatural events in Gary is still very difficult. But Bagans, however, knows who to turn to in order to corroborate his story: someone like Latoya Ammons, whose children claimed to have experienced some form of possession, a superstitious police officer, an exorcist, and so on. There is no consultation with experts, nor are with any pesky skeptics. It is significant that the “Demon House” movie includes an exorcism from real life although it is more of a publicity stunt than anything else.
As part of “Demon House”, Bagans fetches the aforementioned sightings of the happenings in the house along with moronic re-enactments that serve a complete lack of tension, especially the ones showing the Ammons kids bizarrely rolling their eyes in the back of their heads and alien-like screaming. But according to the bagans, the so-called “Bad spirits” are always present, and “Demon House” claims to have captured phenomena on video, audio and magnetic devices. They even suggest that there is surveillance footage of the cameras capturing him and other people in a state of demonic possession.
With no narration, his filmmaking attempts are nothing more than ‘pointing a camera to prove that he is right’, more like a cartoonish enterprise absent of any tact. For example, whenever someone says something foreboding, it is met with one of his countless pathetic freeze frames that function as accidental punch lines.
Things do start getting weirder towards the end in Bagans’ investigation, giving us a glimmer of hope that this might be the rare horror documentary which is actually frightening. Adam, Bagans’ cameraman, gets affected by being in the house at a later stage, while a parapsychologist named Barry Taff (who happens to be the author of Aliens Above, Ghosts Below) suffers some sort of physical effects, or so we’re told. (“Demon House,” if possessed house was given some more sociological analysis instead of simply filming the bagans types would have done much better.) As much as “Demon House” desires to possess real live moments of something like a “Paranormal Activity” movie, Bagans’ level of skepticism, especially every time the horrendous child reenactments posing Adam and Barry’s dramatic turns completely overlooking the fact that they were the ones being possessed, is staggering.
It turns out to be extraordinarily unengaging when the documentarian or even his friends cannot be trusted, as their true suffering did inspire more of a “who cares?” reaction about the existence of demons rather than “who knows?”
However, most shocking of all remains watching the doc that Bagans of “Ghost Adventures” stands to claim at least 100 episodes into ‘s ghost hoasting. Apart from the authority he wields while on camera, he remains an incredibly dull stand-in for these remote supernatural happenings. Bagans’s voiceover sounds weary and lifeless: “This is the case that really f*ked me up.” This is followed by, “this was some serious sht that meant something.” And, his famed closer: “Like I said at the beginning, this story is cursed.” While there is a chance that shrugging nature in between commercial breaks is allowed, feature length documentaries as this do not allow as much freedom and make him all the more a storyteller you cannot trust.
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