Director: Omar Rogers
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Moving into a new house, a group of friends try to use the opportunity to move on from their troubled past and start over in the new community, but when they start to suspect the series of strange visions and hallucinations is real, they find out the haunted history of the house and try to solve it.
Review:
Overall, this was a decent if unspectacular genre effort. Among the film’s better aspects is the rather fun setup that at least provides the main group with a solid enough set of likable factors for why they’re living in the particular house. The opening setup involving the supposed robbery that leaves the homeowner dead in the aftermath, while they get away from the incident with the money and belongings before the new group moves in and tries to put their past behind them to start over in the house, offers a workable enough means of getting the history of the house setup and how they get to stay there. With this providing a way for the group to go into each of their respective backstories as well for why they stay at the house, from wanting to move out of a bad neighborhood, overcome a series of hardships they put them behind their goals in life, or settle down into a new life together, there’s a worthwhile means of getting everything setup and starting off on a solid note.
With this in place, the series of hauntings and interactions at place here offer up a mixed bag of factors that have some likable elements but also some flaws. The idea of the house being haunted by the ghost of the previous occupant which comes to interact or torment the group in random times or locations, whether the innocent encounter where she appears as a neighbor out looking for her missing dog or the flash visions of her bloodied face tormenting the group around the house so there’s some solid ideas in play involving the ghost throughout here. The problem is that these are so brief and fleeting that they hardly register with the majority of the film, offering up endless scenes of the group hanging out around the house, talking about their day, or just living their lives. It can be easily forgotten that this is a genre effort at times. These interactions and confrontations aren’t all that impactful to have much lasting power in the film until the finale, and with the obvious, cheap, low-budget appearance here, are what hold this one down.
Overview: **/5
A watchable if obviously flawed low-budget genre effort, there’s enough here holding this one up to be worthwhile at the absolute best and quite troublesome at the very worst. This is really only for the most hardcore and devout fans of this style of low-budget indie genre fare, while most others out there should heed extreme caution with this one.
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