A handful of college students get trapped in a haunted hospital on Halloween.

It's Halloween night. The males of a group of young people have promised the females a night of terror. They plan on bringing them to an abandoned mental asylum. However, one of the females in the group had a mother that worked there.

Earlier, one of the males is in the asylum, setting up props to scare the girls. he sees the figure of a young girl in a room, goes in and we hear him scream.

Next door to the asylum is, what else, an abandoned funeral home. There has been a report of two cheerleaders missing from the local high school, last seen hanging around the funeral home. Two police offices are sent to the home and enter in order to look for the girls. Eventually the officers and the group meet together in the asylum.

What happens to the group in the asylum is full of gory, blood soaked, maggot-ridden exploits. The spirits of a serial rapist, who caused the fatal fire that closed the asylum, is haunting the asylum. Spirits, both ghostly and solid appear. Soon you can't tell the living from the dead. The exploits include one of the friends, thought to be human, is clobbered with a pipe and he walks around with the pipe in his head, a skinned dog coming back to life, one of the cheerleaders, now dead, coming back to haunt the group.

The plot, though not original, is pulled off by the clever writing and the terrific special effects. Although this film ended up being a direct-to-video release, it has the polish of a major motion picture by novice director Ferrante. His past experience has been that of make-up artist, filmographer, and writer. Being a jack-of-all-trades can give a new director better insight to various needs in the making of a film, which shows here.

Nominated for The Saturn Award for best DVD release by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and horror films in 2006, Boo is a clever film with great effects. Watch for a special cameo by Dee Wallace-Stone.

MY RATING- REVIEWED BY TONY BERNARDINI