Plot: A teenager (Gallner) has cancer, and the family moves closer to the hospital for his treatment. But the house is an ex-mortuary. His mother (Madsen) hopes for the best, but the house is holding secrets from the past.
Who’s It For? Those who want/need the creepy stories, but are willing to overlook some flaws.
Going to a scary movie is kind of like a first date. Your palms get sweaty, you’re consistently nervous, and you’re just hoping for something unexpected to happen. It’s a love/hate thing, and so is this movie.
But then it happens … the ecto-plasam, so of course my mind drifts to Ghostbusters and we’re stuck looking at floating chocolate pudding.
It totally removed me from the film. Suddenly, nothing was scary anymore. Especially not a shower curtain. I was just thinking about why in the world they didn’t move out of the house. Or keep the possessed kid away from the little ones. Not only that, have you noticed Virginia Madsen hasn’t been in a good movie since Sideways.
It only takes a second for something to snap you from a good creepy moment. That’s what happens half way through this film. But early on, I did get sweaty palms 3 times, and jumped twice, so that’s a total of 5.