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'The Gallows': Herky-jerky, lazy, loud horror

The latest addition to the growing refuse pile of dreadful found-footage horror pics, The Gallows labors under the delusion that shaking, bumping, dropping, sliding, throwing, pitching, and kicking handheld cameras and minicams while 20-something actors run around on an ill-lit sound stage amounts to an experience of terror.

Reese Mishler and Pfeifer Brown (background) star in the horror flick "The Gallows," set mostly in a high school theater. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Reese Mishler and Pfeifer Brown (background) star in the horror flick "The Gallows," set mostly in a high school theater. (Warner Bros. Pictures)Read more