Tommy Snöberg Söderberg 
The Psychic: Files is a horror movie and kind of a found footage film from 2026. It centers around these vloggers, a couple who seem to get followers because they play pranks on each other. Pretty serious pranks too, I might add, with death scenes and so forth. I personally think they take the joke a little too far, but that’s just my personal preference, of course.
For some reason things really go too far, and they end up in this haunted house where they are supposed to find the psychic, a medium who lets them communicate with the dead or read their future or something. Nice premise, absolutely. They get trapped in the house and can’t find a way to get out of there. That’s what trapped means, right? (duh) Whether it’s because they’re in a truly haunted house where the spirits decide who stays and who goes or if there is someone trapping them purposely there with technology, trap doors and things like that are an entirely different matter.
The house is monitored by cameras, which means that we sometimes see their own recording devices and sometimes the surveillance cameras in the house. Fair enough, we’ve seen that before, and it’s a clever way to capture things that would be illogical to be captured on camera but the people who eventually get lost (and their footage found). But I can’t really grasp what’s going on anyway. There are those two camera choices for sure, but I think there are also conventional camera techniques that tear the illusion apart.
I also feel that The Psychic: Files contradicts itself a bit. I mean, often it’s not definite if they really are in a haunted house, if they play the ultimate prank on one another, or if someone actually is holding them prisoner there and exploiting them to a highly sadistic treatment. As a matter of fact, I’m not really sure what actually happened even when the film has ended. There might be situations where confusing the audience is a good thing, but this is not one of those times. The story just isn’t interesting enough to force the audience to interpret what actually is going on.
The acting is ok, I guess; there are no Oscar-winning performances here. Most is on par with a few small dips that really don’t impress me. But I could live with that if the script actually made sense. Don’t get me wrong, there are situations and scenes that are really good and that highlight the film, but there are too few of them, and they’re too far apart.
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