In this episode former Hell Hounds Harry Spangler (Travis Wester) and Ed Zeddmore (A.J. Buckley) are joined by several friends, as they are filming a pilot episode for their television series 'Ghostfacers' at a supposedly haunted mansion that the Winchesters also turn up to investigate.The bulk of the episode is shown as the handy-cam footage from the TV show, with Supernatural only resuming control of the airwaves for the final scenes.
Ghostfacers is a spot-on parody of actual supposed ghost hunting "reality" television, jumping at shadows and psyching themselves up with their own imaginations, then giving an idea of what the film crews and alleged experts would do if they ever met a real ghost (which, of course, they won't...)
It's not a perfect episode: there are some shots in the TV show that clearly the amateur film makers wouldn't have been able to get and the actual ghosts that appear, rather unfortunately given Supernatural's usually high-level of effects, just look like actors in make-up for the most part.
Nevertheless, Ghostfacers manages to be very creepy - and funny - with some genuine shocks as the horror movie homages pour in from The Blair Witch Project to Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Like Hell House this is a standalone episode, away from the main hunt for Bela and the war with Lilith, however it isn't simply a rerun of Hell House as both sides learn to respect the others and end up co-operating a lot more this time round.
Once again, like the Hell Hounds, the Ghostfacers have their own website, for your education and entertainment, complete with character bios, a blog, videos, pictures etc.
I'm still missing the real monsters and the truly terrifying ghosts that we were treated to in Seasons One and Two, but this recent run of five or six episodes proves there's still the potential for greatness in the franchise.
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