As horror movies go, this movie may not be terrible but comes close.
The most scary thing about this movie is its poster. The movie depends on sound to actually scare you (explosively loud music/effects when ghosts appear or are about to appear). Lots of inane redundancies and too much holding back of crucial story lines. As a result, when I learned of the supposed "secrets", I couldn't help imagine "so that was it?" Watching the film, I was frequently bored. The plot seemed to be complex, but needlessly so, and apparently so on purpose an obvious attempt by the filmmakers to camouflage its shallowness in what is now becoming the all-too-hackneyed memory loss shtick. To be fair, there is an interesting twist at the end, in a 5-minute scene that was more interesting than the rest of the movie put together. The brochures and the marketing blitz make much of the fact that there is no blood in the movie. When did this become a virtue? Anyhow, it would have taken blood and a whole lot more (like a real script, instead of a montage of trite visuals) to give this clinker any legs. Unoriginal, uninspired, uninspiring, and unscary. Totally forgettable.
The most scary thing about this movie is its poster. The movie depends on sound to actually scare you (explosively loud music/effects when ghosts appear or are about to appear). Lots of inane redundancies and too much holding back of crucial story lines. As a result, when I learned of the supposed "secrets", I couldn't help imagine "so that was it?" Watching the film, I was frequently bored. The plot seemed to be complex, but needlessly so, and apparently so on purpose an obvious attempt by the filmmakers to camouflage its shallowness in what is now becoming the all-too-hackneyed memory loss shtick. To be fair, there is an interesting twist at the end, in a 5-minute scene that was more interesting than the rest of the movie put together. The brochures and the marketing blitz make much of the fact that there is no blood in the movie. When did this become a virtue? Anyhow, it would have taken blood and a whole lot more (like a real script, instead of a montage of trite visuals) to give this clinker any legs. Unoriginal, uninspired, uninspiring, and unscary. Totally forgettable.