It’s a mental liminal space, familiar but fleeting, and deeply unpleasant throughout. This movie has a certain “made for TV” quality about it, that thin veneer of expensive sets trying to mask discount-bin writing that always leaves a vaguely oily residue on the brain after viewing. For some reason, these scenes are back-to-back, which I suppose that makes them easier to skip. To go with the boring adultery plotline, we also have two sex scenes which feature partial or implied nudity. There’s also no small amount of profanity and some fairly gory imagery, although not a lot of on-screen violence. First, your kids aren’t going to be interested in the constant marital tension/adultery hand-wringing, and second, neither will you. It doesn’t help that they’ve cut several other corners, including a shot that was noticeably slowed in post-production and a handful of scenes with very obvious dialogue over-dubbing.Īs far as family audiences are concerned, this is a real loser in a lot of categories. Given the current price of lumber, the filmmakers probably would have improved their profit margin by sawing their dialogue into boards and selling it as a wood substitute. The dialogue oscillates wildly between tolerable and outright awful. It’s turgid and overwrought and I thoroughly disliked every minute of it. This is a poorly written high school melodrama in haunted house drag. I love the spooky atmosphere, the slowly building tension, the unpleasant sounds in the dark…all of it. Now, I’m a big fan of haunted house movies. But when he talks Natalie into it, they find that the house may have more than a bad history – it has a dangerous future. Better yet, he knows he can get it cheap, since he recently cleaned up a murder-suicide there. Luckily, in Kevin’s work as a crime-scene cleaner, he’s found a house he thinks will be perfect. Their counselor has recommended a change of scenery, but house prices aren’t cheap. Kevin (Shawn Ashmore) and Natalie Dadich (Ashley Greene) have been struggling since an affair which nearly destroyed their marriage.
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