Film Review – The Gallows

The summer moviegoing season of 2015 is a little light on horror films. Needing a mid-year chiller to plug a hole in the schedule, Warner Brothers picked up “The Gallows,” which was in production nearly three years ago. Hoping to make a little extra money from younger audiences on prowl for a communal scream, the studio isn’t coloring outside the lines with this endeavor, which is a straight-up, seen-it-all-before found footage terror feature starring a bunch of untested actors, directed by two men who have no interest in disrupting audience expectations. “The Gallows” is tedious and painfully conventional, with its unwillingness to try anything new more frightening than anything this achingly dull picture dreams up. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com