Pretty Good

Admirable film.

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

In a small-town to bury their grandfather, a pair of kids find the town's celebration haunted by a dangerous local spirit and must band together with several ghosts helping spirits in the afterlife to stop him.This one turned out to be quite an entertaining and enjoyable children's style horror film. One of the better aspects here is the fact that it tries to ditch the comedy in favor of more traditional horror-related themes and manages to get pretty good at incorporating them. The scenes of the ghost in the underground pit, the first chase through the woods and the encounter in the burnt remains of the former house are all quite exciting encounters that are based around the spirit itself being something to be feared. He's treated seriously by everyone and there's no jokes or gags built up around him, so it allows him to be a serious threat, judging from his actions is well-deserved and gives him a serious aura that's deserving in a horror film. The few injections of comedy are handled by the bumbling ghosts and a few wise-cracks from the kids, which aren't terrible surprisingly and actually add a little bit to the movie's opening when they discover the secret world and how it all works out, and by mixed together with the strong plot that's pretty chilling and could serve as the basis for a more adult-themed effort by removing the ghostly helpers but still save everything else is a strong suit, and really all that's really wrong here is the story's hectic nature, containing a lot of ideas but not really allowing them to each get fleshed out so it feels all-over-the-place, but overall this one isn't that bad.Rated Unrated/PG: Mild Violence and children-in-jeopardy.

I may be the only Eric Idle fan who says this but he was fantastic in this movie! It's one of those movies when you really think....about ghosts I mean. Probably the best Disney movie they can make...I mean COME ON PEOPLE! ERIC IDLE'S IN THIS MOVIE! IT HAS TO BE FABULOUS! ^_^ And it is fabulous!

Well, it wasn't too bad. It could have been better, yeah, but Eric Idle, Kathy Najimy and Tommy Davidson keep it from being unbearable... All in all, an okay Disney Original. Maybe not quite as good as some of the others, but indefinitly better than a few... I won't mention any names...

Okay so Disney's movies aren't exactly "scary", but this movie is probably the scariest...being compared to both Halloweentown 1, and 2...its great! The cast if funny, and play the parts well. Apparently, they knew what they were doing when they teamed up with Hartbreak Productions (yes, ran by the teenage witch herself, Melissa Joan Hart and mother, Paula Hart. Well thats my 411 on this movie, check it out if ya want. I know I am going to check it out all month. After, all this is October!