It was just very slow and not many scares happened.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 1, 2021

It doesn't work.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

At worst, it amplifies what detractors of the subgenre complain about: unnecessary camera shaking, jump scares and fake outs without any real fear or tension.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 15, 2020

As someone who passionately, deeply loves movies, especially horror movies, and laments that not nearly enough genre offerings actually land a theatrical release, I beg of you, please don't go see The Gallows.

| Original Score: D- | Jul 4, 2020

[I]t's one of the lower rung POV horror films around.

| Apr 8, 2020

[W]here The Gallows really gets high marks is with the sound design. Brandon Jones amazes with auditory nuance that brings its own level of chills to the proceedings.

| Dec 8, 2019

The Gallows feels more like a wasted opportunity than an absolutely useless horror.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2019

The Gallows is the latest horror film to abuse the "found footage" genre. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 15, 2019

This is yet another found footage movie that lacks ingenuity and pretends to have a grasp on how teenagers behave.

| Original Score: F | Jan 23, 2019

The predictability ultimately dilutes any tension, as the audience waits for the four kids to be picked off by whatever is in the building with them.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 23, 2019

If you like the found footage genre you will probably enjoy it but if you have had enough there is nothing here that's original enough for you to spend your time.

| Dec 7, 2018

The problem is that all the scary scenes were shown in the trailers, there were too many unanswered questions, and they made Charlie almost a bit humorous.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Nov 2, 2018

The Gallows [is] not scary nor entertaining and because of that what's the use of it?

| Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 30, 2018

Sadly, the film has taken the path of least resistance, and has decided that it wants to be the annoying show-off instead of the discreetly smart wallflower. It ends up as dead and soulless as its bland characters.

| May 1, 2018

The Gallows is a complete mess and only worth watching if you have an odd fascination of staring at floors while characters run away in a panic

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 3, 2017

Oh no, not another "found footage" movie, you think, and, unfortunately for the makers of the preposterously plotted The Gallows -- a formulaic, would-be horror flick set in a high school -- that's exactly what I was thinking 80 minutes later.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2017

The ending is a let-down, with all attempts at plot twists falling flat.

| Nov 11, 2016

I wouldn't want to definitively say The Gallows is the nadir of the found footage genre ... but I have to hope we're nearing rock bottom.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2016

Overall, there is nothing surprising or terrifying about The Gallows; predictable, dull and painfully by-the-book.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 6, 2016

A generic, laughably incompetent found-footage horror flick...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 18, 2016