Dead Files Episode 3

Terror in the Shadows

Hello wonderful people!

Dead files, episode three is called Terror in the shadows and since episode two was oh so wonderful, I figured I’d give this episode a look and see what happens.

For episode number three, the three paranormal investigators (I guess that’s what I should call them) travel all the way to Acampo California and they still feel the need to explain who they are via voiceover and I don’t think they plan on stopping this any time soon. They are in Acampo because they received a call from an elderly woman’s children about their concern for their mom living alone in their haunted house. They say that while growing up in the house, they were tormented by a black shadow figure…

It’s now time for Amy’s walk through and within two minutes she hints at something being wrong as well as something evil. I like this game someone should pay me a dime every time those words come out of her mouth during her walks. The next minute of her walk includes her stating something disturbing and dark but no explanation into any of this so the show turns to Steve because it’s tired of Amy. However this goes by with nothing for me to comment on so it’s back to Amy for a brief moment. I don’t trust her definition of evil… not after the previous episode when they went to Asbury Park and that thing was in the basement… I still stand by my initial statement of the thing being a poltergeist. Also if you feel like big hands are pulling you in somewhere maybe you should tell them to stop since you are obviously uncomfortable with this happening to you.

The show throws two last things at you without explaining them before switching back to Steve… who talks to the most ignorant woman I’ve ever heard of… She just ignored everything her children told her about the paranormal events happening to them… they must have felt like crap. She even doubted her husband’s stories (when he was alive.) Oh look we’re switching back to Amy… who isn’t sure what’s happening why she can’t just ask the spirits in the house what is happening I don’t know… Now back to Steve… see this is really annoying isn’t it… this is the format they are sticking with and so I shall review the show in the same manner that they edit their episodes and hope (if I ever get popular) people will complain this constant change from person to person is giving them whiplash.

The mom apparently claims to have only “seen a few things” around the house but we all know she’s lying. Placing the blame on the children won’t help you lady, we all know you’re lying about what you’ve experienced just admit it. By the way her name is Lorraine. I don’t have anything more to say about this portion of the interview with Steve and Lorraine so here’s a brief rant on Amy’s walk through.

As usual she’s going on and on about something but won’t mention what it is and to that I say: What is this ‘something’ you keep mentioning and why can’t you learn to tell stories in a linear fashion?

Now for a brief moment to rant on Steve and Lorraine: she tried down playing all the paranormal activity she did see as just simple little shadows… News flash Lorraine, simple little shadows wouldn’t have your children worried sick about you living alone in that house. If it was just a harmless shadow then they’d be like ‘oh okay it’s just a simple shadow it doesn’t do much of anything and we don’t feel threatened so we’ll just let it go about its business and we’ll go about our lives.’ Also when the show goes back to Amy she mentions or goes to some area of a house but fails to tell the audience what part of the house is being focused on… and she gets freaked out by seeing her own shadow in that unmentioned room.

The best example of Lorraine’s ignorance or just sheer derp moment was when she every so calmly explained how her son when he was four years old would sit up on the end of his bed, his eyes would be rolled back speak in tongue and convulse like he was having a seizure in the middle of the night. She claimed she didn’t know why he was doing it as if the shadows and whatnot they’d try to tell her about weren’t the cause of this… when she knew they were possessing her son and making him do those things because four year old children don’t just get up and do that in the middle of the night.

This episode decides to take a random turn and give you random back story for Amy. When she was a small child, she saw shadow people in her room and they convinced her they’d be her friend and that she could go be with them… if she bit the electrical cords in her room. I honestly do feel bad that happened to her but seriously if you’re at the age where you’ll stick your finger in an electrical socket then why the hell are there chords in your room that you can access to a point where you can put your mouth on it and bite down? Wouldn’t the parents hide it or just not have anything in your room that needs to be plugged in reachable?

Later on they break protocol because of the intensity and potential danger of the case. Honestly Amy sounds like she could care less about Lorraine who is the person that is repressing some feelings causing the poltergeist Amy felt when she walked out of the house to get away from the shadow people.

Over all the house is drowning in negativity and they all need to work on communication with their feelings. Maybe then some of the activity will die down. I can’t say much about the shadow people since not much is known about them but the poltergeist is sometimes caused by sensitive repressing emotions and it coming out in psychokinetic ways often ‘forming’ a poltergeist for lack of a better term.

Honestly as much as I yelled at this episode it was better than the previous episodes by a landslide. It kind of gives me hope that they can produce good episodes… story wise… everything else just made me angry however there is still time for the show to grow and develop so maybe future episodes will learn from its previous mistakes and not be so annoying.