Ghost Hunters: Live from ''The Stanley'' Hotel

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Product Description
Jason Grant and the 'Ghost Hunters' team revisit the notoriously haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado for a live Halloween-night investigation! Stephen King took up residence at the Stanley while writing his best-selling novel The Shining and the spooky goings on at the hotel reportedly served as the inspiration for his best-selling tome. Viewers will be sent on the ultimate Halloween adventure joining the 'Ghost Hunters' in as they investigate the infamously haunted hotel. Also joining the investigation is a special guest from 'ECW' (Extreme Championship Wrestling); ghost hunting novice CM Punk!System Requirements:Running Time: 180 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 881737130891 Manufacturer No: 13089-7

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4 out of 5 stars

Creepy place August 20, 2007
16 out of 17 found this review helpful

This is a great episode-if there are such things as hauntings, this is the place.

The first time TAPS visited this hotel crazy stuff happend- glasses of water smashed, closet doors opened & closed while they slept- they actually caught this all on tape. More crazy stuff happend during their 2nd visit, the live episode. There were creepy voices, pianos playing (us viewers could actually hear these things.) There wasn't just the usual "cold spots" that conveniently no-one at home can feel.

This is a cool episode, pretty entertaining. Would recommend it.

5 out of 5 stars

Great DVD October 12, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

This DVD was a lot longer than I thought it would be. It's the special Halloween live version of TAPS investigating the Stanley Hotel again. I loved the live feel of it, you feel like you're walking right along with them and experiencing everything without editing getting in the way. There's a very creepy bit with Jason and Grant down in the employee entrance of the hotel. I don't want to give too much away but it made my skin crawl. Awesome. If you love TAPS, buy this DVD. I highly recommend it.

3 out of 5 stars

You Don't Watch this show for Ghosts! October 4, 2007
9 out of 32 found this review helpful

You watch it for the people looking for the ghosts! These guys are hilarious! Especially since they take themselves so dang seriously. I've never seen an episode where something happened (or in which someone said something happened) that wasn't totally explicable. And even though they claim to be looking for logical explanations to odd occurances, these guys are all DYING to see/hear ghosts. And it shows! People like to be scared, and they like to think there are ghosts and the guys on this show are no exceptions. If they really wanted to find out what was what, they'd totally empty the house in question, fumigate it, seak it, and have all electrical power cut off to it from the street. Then when they investigate they'd know that they're not hearing rats or people or radios, or picking up electrical magnetic fields from the house's wiring or letting in drafts that are moving doors, etc. in other words, they'd actually do things scientifically.
But what fun would that be?

Like I say, watching these guys convince themselves that ghostly things are happening when they are not is the entertainment value of the show. A great depiction of how we humans love to fool ourselves.

4 out of 5 stars

good, but not the full six hours, highlights only October 29, 2007
8 out of 13 found this review helpful

I'd like to have had the full six hours on DVD rather than another compilation of highlights from the show. Still, I've watched this 3-hour DVD several times. Not much happens, as usual. The team finds a lot of cold spots, but you will in late October in the Rockies -- and some of the sounds they are tracing around the hotel could be attributed to heating coming on or even by mistake as Donna points out, the air conditioners. Jason and Grant pretty much sequester themselves in the basement where they hear sounds that excite them into believing they've found a haunting, but they just sound like animals to me -- racoons or cats make similar sounds. They fail to question this, so I sometimes believe that they pretend to be deceived just to enliven the show. The investigating team is a good mix, but I wonder why the addition of a celebrity wrestler to help investigate. Wouldn't it have been more worthwhile to have one or more scientists on board to lend some credibility? For all that Jason stresses the science behind the investigations, the fact that none of these guys has any scientific background, thus little critical thinking skills, is brought home. For instance, Steve hears murmuring in an adjacent room and is startled. Yet might it be the heaters blowing air through filters, which can moan and rattle, and not ghosts talking? Doesn't occur to him, and the new guy, Tango, is always willing to believe he's come upon a ghost, so much so that when he hears a strange sound or feels an odd sensation, he magnifies it into being a ghost. He's funny. Lisa is in this one, and she's the most grounded of them, as well as very serious about her investigating, which makes her as much of an asset as Brian. Also, as a negative, the teams often stand around chatting, especially about personal info, rather than roaming about investigating. It doesn't seem like they're that interested in finding any evidence. However, I still enjoyed the presentation. When the lights go out and the display goes to black and white, it's like a B-movie. Very entertaining.

2 out of 5 stars

Good idea, very poor execution December 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Before I begin, let me begin my prefacing that I am a huge fan of
the program, and own seasons 1,2 and 3 on DVD. I saw the original
investigation at the Stanley, and me and my wife were really
looking forward to this.

My review overall is 2 stars.

The reason is because this DVD
is sloppy. The investigation was sloppy. The integraton of
a wrestler who anounces at the beginning that he is
"into this kind of stuff" in an unenthusiastic voice sets the
scene. It was a sloppy decision to include him. Almost as sloppy
as the editing.

Jay and Grant stumble on some interesting activity. The girls
team lead by Donna LeCroix is professional and make expositional
remarks so the audience understands what is happening without
it being too 'play school'

The biggest problems are everything else! ..

* Brian and Steve amount to nothing more than a comedy duo
as the presence of Live TV ("I feel like I am being watched") makes
them uncomfortable and continue to talk non-stop and say silly
things, the best being Brian's theory of a woman exploding mid-air
to explain a cold-spot high in the air. I know Jay must have
sighed when he watched this DVD back.

* Dustin who does nothing except pose and walk around like
a primate - quite possibly the only TAPS member who is completely
useless and thinks hot girls sit around to watch the show for him.

* The absence of Andy Andrews - where did he go? Awesome investigator
who could have brought more legitimacy to this poor investigation.

* CR Punk, a wrestler who seems to occasionally disappear from the
investigation, only for the audience to realise he is laying around
on the beds of each room. He was bored out of his brains and wasn't
anywhere to be seen at the invetigation wrap-up.

Next time the Ghost Hunters team do a DVD from a LIVE show,
they should get a good editor. I honestly have never seen
such sloppy work and I have seen a lot of amatuer films, believe me.

Don't waste your money on this DVD. Not recommended.

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