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Arriving at her childhood house to attend her mother funeral, Annie is informed that her sister Nicole is missing. With the disappearing of Liz – Nicole’s cousin, Annie believes that supernatural events happen in the house. Accompanied by Detective Bill Creek, Annie decides to go further in investigation the house and discovers dark secrets from the past of her family.
Debut director Nicholas McCarthy possesses a good grasp of effective, tension-building technique in this psychologically rooted chiller, in which dark, repressed memories of a turbulent childhood bubble to the surface.
Nicholas McCarthy admirably tries to deliver both a terrifying tale of horror while mixing in more gritty elements, but doesn't explain much as to why.
In the end, like a lot of genre movies, this one pulls from different inspirations, and so weighs in, by turns, as overly predictable and satisfyingly recognizable (part of genre cinema's one-two punch).
July 05, 2012
New York Daily News
In truth, there's nothing here we haven't seen before. But McCarthy, who also wrote the straightforward script, keeps the pace moving and the atmosphere eerie (if rarely terrifying).
The explanations for what has been going on are weird, fantastical and sort of reasonable, within the context of the story, maintaining the film's sense of grounded directness up to the very end.