Title: A couple of stars for production design and visual FX
Review: And that's it. Other than some good production values on the house and some decent FX involving ectoplasm and spectres, there is really not much to see here. It's too bad that Virginia Madsen and Elias Koteas were wasted in this dreck. Some spoilers below....The story is widely believed to be a hoax, for one thing, which diminishes the potential power of it. Also, the writing on the bodies is never explained; we never really know what the deal was with Jonah and the others who used to live in the house; it's not clear if the boy was actually hallucinating because of his cancer treatments; the question "Are you okay/all right?" is used at least seven times, indicating lazy writing.There's also a lot of repeated shots of the same freaky images over and over again to the point of being tiresome; there is some very annoying use of strobe/flashing lights which gets on my nerves.There you go. Use this info to your advantage.
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