Director: Douglas Bankton
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
After her husband's death, a pregnant woman moves in with her grieving mother to help her get over the increasing fear that she’s being haunted by a supernatural entity, but the more time they spend together, they come to believe something else might be at the root of their issues.
Review:
This was a likable enough if overall problematic genre effort. Among the better elements here is the immensely engaging and generally intriguing starting point that brings about quite a strong start. The idea of the two coming together with their shared history and similar background of both losing their significant other in rapid succession and recent time to each other makes for a fun starting point, much like the expected confrontation that comes about with their differing viewpoints about being together. It’s not helped at all by the belief that the supernatural is there and haunting them, as while the mother’s attempts to understand what’s going on and her efforts to find a more logical reason behind everything that brings them into contact with the bookstore and the other figures around town who help plant the idea of something far more deadly going on than they thought.
From there, the film attempts a wholly bizarre series of tangents where it wildly careens from supernatural haunted house mystery to small-town folklore, burying this secret tragedy that occurred years earlier and this strange murder that all come together in a jumbled, overlong mess that really undoes a lot of the goodwill the first half has accomplished. By introducing these different stories on what should’ve been a typical, by-the-numbers spiritual haunting type of genre effort, it makes the story so muddled and scattershot that it’s hard to tell what the intent was with these elements being incorporated as if from several different films entirely, and missing the point. That they’re also presented in more of a thriller realm than an outright genre setup, so it plods along at a steady pace that leaves it with an overlong running time, all bringing this one down overall.
Overview: **/5
An intriguing if somewhat flawed supernatural thriller, this one comes together well enough for what it is, although its main issues here are more than enough to hold it down overall. Those with an interest in the style attempted here or who aren’t bothered by the flaws featured here will want to give it a shot, while most others out there should heed caution.
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