The St Francisville Experiment (2000)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2000
Running Times: 76 mins 10 secs
Format: colour videotape
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Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Kushner-Locke Productions (uncredited)
Producer: Dana Scanlan
2nd Unit Production Manager: Joshua Throne (uncredited)

DIRECTION
Director: none credited

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Assistant Editor: Neguine Sanani (uncredited)

SOUND
Supervising Sound Editor: Chris M. Jacobsen (uncredited)

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Animator: John R. Ellis (uncredited)

LOCATIONS
Locations: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; St Francisville, Louisiana, USA

CAST
Paul I. Salamoff (the producer)
Troy Taylor (the ghost historian)
Paul Palmer (the ghost hunter)
Paul Carson (the team Leader)
Madison Charap (the psychic)
Ryan Larson (the history student)
Tim Thompson (real name Tim Baldini) (the videographer)
Ava Kay Jones (the voodoo priestess)
Katherine Smith (the St Francisville paranormal expert)
Sarah Clifford (the psychic)

A group of young people armed with video cameras spend a night in a haunted house in St Francisville, Louisiana hoping to catch the haunting spirits on camera. (Full Synopsis)

A blatant Blair Witch Project rip-off that stirs in elements from the BBC's Screen One: Ghostwatch (1992) but ends up inferior to both productions. There are some creepy moments and at least one great shock involving a cat, but the characters are so annoying and the 'action' so torturously drawn out that getting to the end is something of an ordeal.

UK
Video Distributor: High Fliers Distribution Ltd (HFV8479)

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Trimak Pictures
Video Distributor: Lion's Gate Entertainment

Germany
Rating: 16

UK
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: PG-13 (for language and elements of terror)

2000
April
15: USA - shown at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival

July
28: USA - theatrical test release in Fresno and Albuqurque

2001
January
5: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC (for video release)

March
5: UK - video release

This ain't no walk in the woods

SEE ALSO
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Screen One: Ghostwatch (1992)

fake documentary; haunted houses; ghosts; students; film makers; cats; urban legends; voodoo