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[[File:Graveencounters 2011franchise.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Scene from ''Grave Encounters (2011 franchise)''...]]

==Summary==
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"They were searching for proof... they found it.  Fear is just a word. Reality is much worse."  A found footage series that follows first a ghost-hunting reality show production crew and then some obsessed student-film-maker fans who lock themselves inside an abandoned and haunted mental hospital.... 

==Details==

* Release Date:  2011
* Country/Language:  Canada, English
* Genres/Technical:  Horror, found-footage, mockumentary
* Starring:  Ben Wilkinson, Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko; Richard Harmon, Shawn C. Phillips, Jennica Fulton
* Director:  Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz (as The Vicious Brothers)
* Writer:  Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz (as The Vicious Brothers)
* Producer/Production Co:  Digital Interference Productions, Twin Engine Films; Death Awaits Cinema, Twin Engine Films, Pink Buffalo Films
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8FBRATbJoA link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJPteT_B7SA link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLGh5lAOGU link])
* IMDB ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703199/ link]), ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2231554 link])
* TVTropes page: ([http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GraveEncounters link])

==Ratings==
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* Rated:  (not rated) (perhaps equivalent of PG-13 or R for Violence, Profanity, Adult Content?)

===Tentacle Ratings===
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* SS___ (Two Tentacles:  Barely Lovecraftian;  vaguely similar in tone)

I've not seen the film series, but it seems to involve a haunted insane asylum full of reality-altering spirits conjured as a result of a "satanic" cultist's shenanigans.

''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

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==Synopsis==
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* GRAVE ENCOUNTERS (2011) - For their ghost hunting reality show, a production crew locks themselves inside an abandoned mental hospital that's supposedly haunted - and it might prove to be all too true.
* GRAVE ENCOUNTERS 2 (2012) - A film student who is obsessed with the movie Grave Encounters sets out with his friends to visit the psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film. 
* GRAVE ENCOUNTERS 3 (in production) - Will reportedly explore the history/origins of the haunted hospital.
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==Notes==

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===Associated Mythos Elements===
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* fiction:  compare to ''[[House of Leaves (fiction)]]'
* location:  Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital
* race:  [[Human Cultist]]s (apparently the hospital staff led by Dr. Arthur Friedkin were cultists)
* race:  [[Deadite]]s
* race:  [[Ghost]]s
* tome:  (nameless tome found on altar near the end of the first film)


===Keeper Notes===
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