Excellent adaptation.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I saw this on a rented DVD after watching the trailer. Another haunted house film, babysitter in need of money, family disappeared without a trace, house in the middle of nowhere, small town, people staying away from the haunted house, single mother with a child moves in, jump factors, loud sound design n weird things starts happening. One may say that this has been done so many times n that the jump scares n sudden loud noise n cat jumping around is getting monotonous. Well i found the movie decent enuff to finish off but in two sittings. The cinematography was decent, the small town n the isolated house was captured well. The editing was a bit tedious, the script n acting was good but the movie lacked suspense n tension. The jump scares  n ghostly happenings became so saturated that it lost the fear. The loud sound was annoying. The first kill was good, the guy who got killed looked like the bald n bearded version of Matthew McConaughey. There is decent gore towards the end n the thing which stood out was the interesting twist n the reference to Amytiville horror. Unspoken an unofficial prequel to the Amytiville horror.

There's an awful lot wrong with 'The Unspoken'. As I was watching it I was thinking to myself that it was one of the worst horror movies I've seen - and I've seen a lot of terrible horror movies. The amount of jump scares that turn out to be absolutely nothing is quite ridiculous. Jump scares are fine if there is a genuine reason for them relating to the story. Occasionally a misleading one can be thrown in, I accept that. But when there have been about 10-15 of them and none of them have turned out to be anything more than a cat jumping out of nowhere, it gets pretty frustrating. The other main problem I had, was that other than the opening scene, almost the entire movie happens during daylight hours. There's nothing scary about daylight. I don't think there's a film maker alive who could pull off an effective horror movie filmed entirely during the day. This was absolute amateur hour from director Sheldon Wilson.The acting is bad, the dialogue is bad and the story is completely boring. There was almost nothing good going for it. Then along came the ending. It's a very interesting ending that I happened to quite like. I'm not talking 'The Usual Suspects' or 'Memento' type quality, and maybe it just seemed like a better ending because everything else had been so terrible and I wanted to like something about it. Regardless though, I liked it. In fact it bumped it up from being a '3' to a '4'. Is the horrible lead up worth it for the ending though? I'm going to stick with a no on that one.

"The Unspoken" is another horror (yawn) movie about, well, ghosts (I guess). It has an overall effect of cold mush okra. It is so hackneyed, so predictable, so non-scary it should be used as an example in an undergraduate course on how to bore an audience instead of scaring them.It opens with a story of what would become legend "The Briar House." It seems that an entire family vanished from the face of the earth never to be heard from again. If my thinking serves me correctly, I would say the cat scared them. Watch this movie, and you'll get the connection.Anyhoo, flash forward to the present, and a single mother and mute son move into the house. Immediately, things begin to go bump in the night. Angela is then introduced as the movie's protagonist. She is played by Jodelle Ferland ("Silent Hill" and "Case 39"). Nearly every word she utters is barely above a whisper, yet she manages to bond with the mute boy. Along the way, however, she is tormented by some local thugs--right out of the Hardy Boys High School--and tries to have a faux lesbian relationship with some boyish girl. The boys need to get back in the house to get their "stash" (I'm sure it was a limitless end of Lego blocks), but I digress.This movie was just plain bad. And the completely unbelievable ending left me stupefied. As in many other movies of this genre, it was as if the writer, director, and producer sat down and said, "Okay; I have NO idea how to end this, so let's just do this." Rated "R" for violence and language.

Horrible acting all the way around. Joelle Ferland (Angela) was absolutely awful! The story started interesting, and then became more and more predictable. The slamming doors and loud noises was most of the "scary" moments. They could have more eerie creepy moments. but it just didn't happen. The first death scene looked like it was made in the 1980's. So, so, bad.Most of the progression of the movie didn't make sense. I know, it is supposed to be a scary movie, don't ask questions.Neal McDonough probably wished he would have passed on making this movie.