Twenty years after a deadly freak accident at a high school play, a misguided attempt to re-stage the play and honor the student proves that some things are better left in the past, but ultimately find out that some things are better left alone.
1 February 1988, Illinois, USA
2 August 1993, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
21 February 1996, Fresno, California, USA
November 11, 2016
The ending is a let-down, with all attempts at plot twists falling flat.
July 13, 2015
As the latest entry in the tired "found footage" horror subgenre, this on-the-cheap film has never met a cliché it didn't embrace like sweet death itself.
July 10, 2015
A ridiculous fusion of "Paranormal Activity" and "Glee" that is so incredibly dumb that it is almost, but never quite, scary to behold.
January 21, 2016
The lazy way The Gallows bundles its tropes together suggests that its creators' ambitions went no higher than simply getting a horror film made.
July 10, 2015
A cautionary note: If your horror film is about a high-school theater production and still, the acting's not the worst thing about it, something's gone awfully wrong.
March 18, 2016
A generic, laughably incompetent found-footage horror flick...
February 24, 2016
A movie (essentially) made by teenagers, with a teenager's intelligence, and for teenagers.
April 06, 2016
Overall, there is nothing surprising or terrifying about The Gallows; predictable, dull and painfully by-the-book.
July 14, 2016
I wouldn't want to definitively say The Gallows is the nadir of the found footage genre ... but I have to hope we're nearing rock bottom.
January 06, 2016
It may be easy to dismiss The Gallows as yet another 'found footage' movie but the film is actually a cleverly executed low-fi horror tale that manages to do a few things a bit differently and also delivers some solid scares too.
August 14, 2015
In a quick 80 minutes, we get the back story, we meet the four core characters (all of the young actors do fine work), get the wits scared out of us about a half-dozen times and wind up with a VERY creepy ending.
July 10, 2015
The Gallows has a cleverness that bobs, occasionally, above the surface of cesspool murk. You can't tell whether it's just flotsam or a corpse, but for most of the 80-minute run time it almost doesn't matter. It's at least something.
