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Project 17 is a ghost story. Its about
these high school students who appear to have nothing in common, but
all come together to make a movie in an abandoned mental institute that
is scheduled to be knocked down. The mental institution sits high atop
a hill in Danvers, MA and has a long history of patient abuse and
mistreatment. People view the place as being haunted because so many
people died there. Derick, a bad boy playa who knows hes going to be
stuck taking over his parents diner once he graduates, decides to
enter a film contest as his final hope of escaping the life hes stuck
in. He recruits five other students to be in his film, all of whom have
their own reasons for doing it. They go in a little frightened, but
once the night is over, their lives are forever changed.

The story is told from the different
perspectives of the teens with each getting their own backstory. I have
to say that it was a bit of a slow start, but once the kids went into
the mental institute, I was hooked. The descriptions alone were eerie,
creepy, and at times, downright scary. You can feel the atmosphere
change from Dericks first step into Danvers State Hospital. Everything
becomes more thrilling and more mysterious. It was an exquisitely
creepy thrill-ride.