Eight “urban explorers,” who have the own streaming show where they film themselves in haunted locations across Britain, try to spend the night at the long abandoned Pelosi Asylum.  Pelosi Asylum (and it’s a British film so don’t read too much into the name, as tempting as it may be to do so) is supposed to be one of the most haunted locations in the UK.  It’s scheduled to be demolished and the explorers plan to be the last people to spend the night at the Asylum.

None of the supernatural explorers actually believe in the supernatural.  Before entering the Asylum, they joke about how everything that they do is just for show and how all of the “supernatural” things that they’ve filmed have actually been created through clever editing.  They don’t even plan to actually spend the entire night at the Asylum.  Once they do enter the Asylum, they decide to split up to explore and get as much footage as they need to edit something together.  That’s when they discover that they are not alone.  The Asylum is full of former patients who consider the building to be their home and who did not welcome uninvited guests.

Night Explorers: The Asylum starts out as a found footage film but it quickly abandons that and instead becomes a standard slasher film where people split up for no good reason and get picked off one-by-one.  There’s nothing new or surprising about Night Explorers but there are some effective jump scares and fans of gore will find a lot to look at here.  The film’s killers are frighteningly ruthless and the violence is not for the squeamish.  For the most part, the cast is hampered by undeveloped characters but everyone is convincing enough as the type of moron who would think breaking into an abandoned asylum was a good idea.  I’ve definitely seen better than this film but I’ve also seen much worse movies that cost considerably more money to make.  What Night Explorers lack in originality, it makes up for in blood and atmosphere.