Gallows Persuasive Essay

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Does anyone remember the last time we saw a found-footage film that was actually good? Seriously can you remember? The Gallows reminds us that even though Hollywood loves making found footage movies they seem to be against making them good.

In this horror film we have a gang of cliché annoying teenagers Reese Houser, Pfeifer Ross, Ryan Shoos and Cassidy Spliker. The actors seemed to enjoy keeping their real names in the film and Ryan is the only one to keep both his first and last name, so in that same order I give you the actors in the same order, Reese Mishler (Youthful Daze *Series, Trace the Sky), Pfeifer Brown (Big Time Rush *Series), Ryan Shoos (Mud, As Night Comes) and Cassidy Gifford (Gods Not Dead, Adventures of Serial Buddies). I feel like I've heard this story somewhere before maybe you have too, about 20 years ago during a school play a horrible accident happens where the main character is actually hung from what was supposed to have been a prop Gallow. Fast forward
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Such as all the football players were forced to take part in the play because it was mandatory...When has theater ever been mandatory? And if it was mandatory how come Reese said that Pfeifer asked him to do the play? He already had to do it. It wasn't an option! Towards the end Reese and Pfeifer are running for their lives and decided to climb up a ladder (for some reason) and somehow they are able to do this with no problems whatsoever with holding the camera. I have to climb a ladder with two hands so...I guess their just better them me. With their magical camera holding and ladder climbing abilities. I have waaay more problems with the movie but to continue on would make me reveal the twist at the end which...although is very creepy is also very weird and introduces a lot of questions. So we get another classic wtf ending! We haven't had one of those since I reviewed As Above/So Below. I don't recommend that movie

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