I watched about 2/3rds of this movie in the first sitting. It was okay. Not especially funny, but somehow engaging enough to keep me from being bored. I realized about a month later that I hadn't finished the movie, and didn't know if it was still up on Netflix. Of course, it was, and I finished watching it.

There are a few charming moments, but nothing that approaches memorable. There's a lot of humor that could be mined from people who buy into ghost hunting shows. Those ideas are in this movie, but it seemed like it lost focus of the funniest aspect of the premise, and instead went with some broad, predictable gags for the characters.

The plot involves the group deciding to shoot an audition episode of a ghost hunting show. They go to a "haunted" barn. After poking around, they stumble on a larger, non-supernatural story.

This is a decent development, but for the budget that the movie seemed to have, the writing is much more dull, and no real risks are taken.

Referring to this as a Scooby Doo wanna be is insulting to Scooby Doo...but very correct in what played out honestly.

Better to call this Scooby Doo wanna-be's and the Mystery of the Noises at the Farm. That would have been a better and more honest title and that would have moderated my expectation more.

Great to see Amy Sedaris still working and I wonder if the film being local to New York had anything to do with that. The local outdoor traveling scenes were gorgeous. It was good to see Paul D from Broad City fame in the film also but I'm not into awkward humor or movies that deliver a different movie than indicated.

I was expecting a ghost/funny/horror film from the title and the bait was switched. Resulting in a movie I cared little about. Character development? Romantic tension? Potential abuse of power to curry romantic interest? Bullying portrayed as comedy? Questionable end story conclusions about decisions character made to move this story forward? This movie had those issues, tensions, and plotholes and after the reveal I could care less what happened to the team outside of not wanting to see them expire. And Sedaris's schtick that saves the day? Potentially original in some sense but very underwhelming and uninspired as it was a repeat ploy. And the character reveals outside of the new potential police officer elicited a very "Meh" reaction from me. If you are into a human relations movie then have at it as this is about the formation of a team. It you are looking for anything related to Ghost pass this by.

That team can form for more zany adventures on other weekends, I'll skip any more adventures.

I wrote and earlier review that did not get posted so posting this again.

Clearly this movie was made with a deep love for the genre. Its really good parody and found it really fun. Everything annoying about the acting and the writing are perfectly tuned to reinforce the comedic effect. I think most fans of ghost horror films will find this and a half liter of vodka to be more than enough fun for a Saturday night.