The Age of Commercialism

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

OK, now, let's get started. Plot: The story itself is actually good, which is unbelievable for this movie. Plot is telling us that the weird things are happening in the house, and the environment is disturbing as well. But the rest of the movie... oh my god.Cast: Actors are really... um, awful. They don't know how to act. They don't know A N Y T H I N G. No expressions, idiotic dialogs, I think that the 'actors' got 2 dollars in the end, since the movie is so god damn awful. Why is it released anyway? I would die full of shame. Effects are scary, but overused. So overused that they become hilarious in the end. (Black guy chasing ghosts with a thing which looks like a condom; GHOST can't find the woman because she's hiding behind him while hugging another ghost; they are walking with a CANDLE around the house; at one time outside is SUNNY, and in the second scene... darkness. I mean, seriously?; The guy is DYING and in the next second he's like running without A N Y trace of B L O O D which was boiling out of him 2 seconds ago; black guy using soap to make a circle etc.) So, if you want to watch something and die of laughter, watch this.

The acting is so so, the special fx are actually pretty good for what they are, and there are a few places that were actually scary. My biggest problem is the little girl. Annie, I think her name is. The constant crying "mommy, daddy". Seriously? The girl that played this kid is 13 when this movie is made. No 13 year old child calls their parents "mommy" and "daddy". Its mom and dad. She sounded like a 6 year old. Especially in 2009.As for the house, I doubt they were able to film there even though the outside shots showed it. The pictures were kind of cool. Wish it had explained more of the history and stuff thats supposed to happen there.

Despite a low budget and mediocre acting with blue screen effects that make you laugh, this movie is actually quite good. Not many movies these days are actually scary. In an age where sawing someone's head in two makes people yawn, it seems time to bring back some old fashioned scares. Based on the legendary Winchester house this movie provided those old school thrills with very little gory violence. The threat is consistent and sustained allowing the viewer to feel threatened where other horror movies would back off. Despite all the negative aspects to the film it is enjoyable to watch and the fact it is so cheap actually helps. Hollywood often gloss over horror making it unscary, this goes the whole way to provide good entertainment.a worthwhile watch

Browsing my video store and finding nothing but the usual cheap,low budget jobs and copious tacky remakes,I stumbled across a pretty old school scary looking cover,boasting to offer "a terrifying true story" ooh goodie! I grabbed it rushed home to watch it excitedly as I love a good horror.Sadly though, all I can say to that now is this-if only they had put the same amount of effort made on producing the front cover as they did the actual movie, it may well have been a lot better-by that I mean actually worth the £3.95 I paid and an hour or so of my life wasted on viewing time.From just after the opening title,the movie comes over quite over the top and predictable,introducing what you could pretty much guess to be a ghost within about 5 seconds followed by some truly scary acting (and by scary,I mean scary bad!) And Pan to the modern day...A family staring woefully from each other to the "good will" pile of children's items, then back to each other with silent yet over emphasized pain was just unnecessarily drawn out-to some even more painful attempt at a backing score. Not only that,but after watching the whole film, seemed utterly irrelevant and was not even mentioned again.All three lead actor's performances were pretty cringe worthy and awkward to watch throughout and the token "paranormal investigator" only served to make viewing all the more slow and disjointed.I really couldn't feel anything for the characters at all emotion wise,(Yes,I know it's a horror which never has been a genre where you get massively developed characters with huge background stories etc taking up chunks of plot that's saved for the scares)but to actually get into the horror feel,you have to at least give kind of a dam what happens to the characters surely? All I could see was actors painfully droning through a script half trying to be somewhat convincing.The special effects,while not bad as such,were not really what you would expect these days given technological advances of today either- but maybe that was the whole point?? I won't go too into the plot, I will let people see for themselves, but I will comment however lastly, on the ending. Now I have seen this twist executed pretty well in films before over the years and originally it was a fall of you chair, hand over mouth shocker.But not this time. The voice over and flash backs at the end explaining that blah blah blah and blahhh have all been done before by now to the point that it was tediously predictable.They didn't even try and make it slightly different or mix things up a bit.The same tired formula strikes again! In short, I would love to be able to actually say some good things about this movie, but honestly I think the best part was when I returned it to the store and drove back home vowing to never watch it again!!