Director: Ursula Dabrowsky
Year: 2009
Country: Australia
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Living with her alcoholic mother, a bullied teen in a small town finally sees her chance at freedom when an accident puts her mother in a coma allowing her to potentially change her life, but when she believes her mother’s spirit has followed her must figure out what’s going on to stop it.
Review:
This was a solid if somewhat problematic feature. One of the better aspects present here is the strong central buildup that takes a fine commentary on the way alcohol impacts a family relationship. This spends quite a bit of the opening section here providing a detailed account of the trials and tribulations facing a family when they succumb unwillingly to alcohol abuse as the film makes it pointedly clear that the amount of verbal and physical abuse the mother dishes out is due to her alcohol abuse. Chaining her up in her room to prevent her from going out to visit friends or live a life, enduring plenty of charged epithets about how much of an unwanted child she was going up, and putting this behavior squarely at the part of her rampant alcoholism which offers up the kind of pertinent background information on her being haunted throughout the film.
Those hauntings might be somewhat controversial since that’s where this one does have some controversial aspects. While the scenes themselves serve nicely to get an idea of her mental state what she's going through and the degree of harm that her mother’s put her through with the hallucinations and visions continuing to haunt her, this doesn't offer up much in the way of intriguing or original content. Way too much of the running time is spent on seeing her run away from the responsibilities she has now that she’s free so hardly anything here really has a chance to build up to get to a point where it’s hardly ever scary due to her psychological brooding over what’s going on with her mother’s spirit haunting her. Combined with the obvious low-budget limitations present throughout here, these are what bring this one down overall.
Overview: **.5/5
An overall watchable attempt at a psychological thriller, this one comes off rather nicely quite heavily as a psychological thriller while having some issues overall. Those who appreciate this kind of approach or are curious about it will have the most to like here while most others out there might want to heed caution.
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