The Gallows Mini

The Gallows follows a group of uninteresting teens with video cameras as they wander a school at night for reasons you don't care about and proceed to be terrified by rope.

And that's being kind.
My first major beef with this farce is WHY. DID. A. HIGH. SCHOOL. PLAY. CONSTRUCT. ACTUAL. FUNCTIONING. GALLOWS. AND. THEN. PUT. A. ROPE. AROUND. A. CHILD'S. NECK. ?????????????
Why? Seriously, this is more improbable than the ghosts. This is how you know instantly that it's fiction, aside from the fact that you're watching a mass distributed film of kids dying. This doesn't happen.
After that, you have kids whose names you'll soon forget do things for reasons you're supposed to care about again, like Unfriended, we don't know these kids or have reason to care about them and their social connections. There's a tiny bit of chemistry between the two leads in the play but that's really all. The rest is just over and hour of kids screaming in the dark with shaky cam, and every now and then it gets quiet and you get a jump scare that's more of a gentle startle and nothing too intense. The boy who needlessly died because some over zealous set builder built actual fuckin' gallows and hung the kid just appears as a shadow moving blurrily, scaring the teens by ominously laying out rope and every now and then, hanging one of them.

This was an absolute waste of time. It exhibits so little effort, it's embarrassing. This is something an average teen could make with 2 cameras and permission to film at their school with their friends. And yet this has a wide release and struggling artists who put thought and care into their work are stuck bagging groceries while these hack frauds scare people with goddamn rope.