Haunted Poland

Haunted Poland (Polish: Nawiedzona Polska) is a 2011 horror film in the found footage genre, pieced together from amateur footage. The film was produced by Maso & Co Productions. Told cinéma vérité-style, Haunted Poland depicts the contents of recorded tape filmed by a couple Ewelyn (Ewelina Lukaszewska), and Pau (Pau Masó) who visited Poland to meet and visit family. However, our duo soon find themselves disturbed by all manner of strange phenomena upon visiting the girl's hometown where she once played with a ouija board.[1] The film premiered at the AIFF on November 20, 2011.

Haunted Poland
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPau Masó
StarringEwelina Lukaszewska
Pau Masó
Irene González
Dominik Lukaszewski
Edited byPau Masó
Production
company
Maso & Co Productions
Release date
  • November 20, 2011 (2011-11-20) (AIFF)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguageEnglish
Polish

A sequel, Haunted Poland: The Origins (Polish: Nawiedzona Polska 2), has been announced.[2]

Plot

In 2011, a couple living in America, Ewelina and Pau, travel to Poland to meet the girl's family. As the film goes by, strange phenomena occurs, but her reluctant "non-believing" boyfriend, just pokes fun at her instead of supporting her, while she is actually having a hard time.

Cast

Production

Filming began in July 2011 and lasted seven days.[3]

Release

The film will premiere at the 2011 American International Film Festival (AIFF) on November 20 as well as the Sundance Film Festival.[3]

Reception

Haunted Poland has garnered negative reviews and the director/actor has been accused of "borrowing liberally from Paranormal Activity".[4] In addition, the first teaser for the film holds a 90% negative bar rate on YouTube.[5] The director released a statement on Dread Central to stop the negativity the trailer created "Haunted Poland was meant to be an 'experimental' project, says director Masó" and continues "This is not a Hollywood film with a budget of 20 million dollars. This film was completely shot on a consumer camera, with an estimate budget of 1000.00$." [6] Additionally, the actor insisted later on, that the film was independent by making this statement "This movie is a no-budget and will be approximately 90 minutes".[7]

Awards and nominations

On October 2011 Haunted Poland won "Best Movie/Documentary/Video/Script featuring Religiosus/Supernatural theme" on the American International Film Festival 2011.[8]

References
  1. "Ready to Visit Haunted Poland?". DreadCentral. July 28, 2011.
  2. "'Haunted Poland' scares up a release and follow-up". Horrornews.net. December 22, 2011.
  3. "Horror na Kujawach! W Chodczu, Toruniu i Włocławku Hiszpanie kręcili film o piekielnych mocach" (in Polish). Gazeta Pomorska. July 21, 2011.
  4. "New horror trailer begs the question -- Why don't they ever put down the camera?". Metacafe. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25.
  5. "Haunted Poland Teaser". Youtube.
  6. "First Haunted Poland (Nawiedzona Polska) Clip "Sees Something"". Dread Central.
  7. "More Teases in Latest Trailer for 'Haunted Poland'". Bloody Disgusting.
  8. "Awards". AIFF2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-01.
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