Director: Bo Mirhosseni
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Living in a dystopian society, a group of refugees trying to hide out from the totalitarian government trailing them manage to seek shelter at a remote house in the wilderness until they can complete the next step of their escape, but when they come under the houses' grisly history must try to stop it from spreading.
Review:
This was a mildly disappointing if somewhat still enjoyable genre effort. One of the better elements here is the solid starting point to everything which manages to provide some rather intriguing starting point to everything. The main setup of the totalitarian state that’s found here with just enough of a preamble to get an idea of the type of setup at play here and the need for secrecy in their operation to the safe house and the concurrent dangers that are in place with staying there. That’s given quite a fine balance with the qualities involving how they’re trying to remain out of sight of the authorities as they wait for the pick-up to get them to safety which is a great enough touch to be had even without the introduction of the supernatural qualities.
It’s the introduction of the supernatural qualities that tend to show where the film starts wavering from what it really wants to be. The idea of the house being haunted and the father coming under the spell of the ghost involved in the house’s history that starts to bring about a strong series of scenes featuring his behavior change in front of others while staying there, but this just turns into a colossal bore with hardly any kind of rational build-up for what’s going on or why no one seems to notice the change. This leads to a decreased sense of terror involving the ghost who is much more hands-on and noncommittal to doing anything as the majority of the scenes consist of horribly-misguided advice and logic that doesn’t come off in the least bit frightening, much less worthy of being followed. This type of identity crisis is what’s the biggest issue facing this one overall.
Overview: **/5
A massive missed opportunity with some big issues, this one comes off rather underwhelming from what it could’ve been had it managed to stay with one of its better and more intriguing aspects instead of switching to a different mindset. Those who are intrigued by it or don’t mind the issues will want to give it a shot while most others out there should heed caution
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