DON'T LOOK UP (2009)

[indianasmith]

I watched this one last night, it was a pretty interesting story about a haunted movie.
In 1928,  Romanian director Bela Olt tried to make a film starring a Gypsy actress.  It was about an old gypsy legend of a beautiful but poor girl who agreed to bear the Devil a daughter if she could marry a nobleman and become rich.  But a series of accidental deaths and murders shut down production, and Olt's film was completely lost except for one production still shot of the female lead.
   Shoot forward 80 years.  American director Marcus Reed, after a psychological collapse on the set of his second movie, leaves his cancer-stricken fiance in America to go to Romania and re-create Olt's lost opus, filming in the original studio where all the weird stuff happens.  Reed is plagued with visions of spirits and events that may or may not be real, and then actual deaths begin to happen on the set.  Is it a bizarre coincidence?  Or are dark forces trying to stop this film from being made, as they did 80 years before?  And why do never-before seen frames from Olt's film keep superimposing themselves on Reed's work?

This movie had a few slow spots, but it was definitely worth watching.  Some of the CGI work was flawed, but the whole concept of a haunted movie studio appealed to me as a horror film buff.