Jean-Pol Cardin
My opinion ---I do not have many resentments, nor understood the things that are in power to make this movie a good movie. I find that "Marina De Van" by trying on horror film, music, music, music, music and music. "Missy Keating" was considered an excellent in her role and happy, otherwise the film would have been a disaster. In conclusion little horror movie with some good effects, it's too just to make a good movie ...
SnoopyStyle
In a remote Irish community, eleven-year-old Niamh is haunted by invisible forces. She and her family are attacked during the night and she's the sole survivor of the ensuing fire. She is taken in by her neighbors. Nobody believes her about the mysterious powers of the house. She finds strange occurrences continue to follow her and thinks that they are the results of her own tears.It's a reasonable indie horror. There is only one truly compelling scene with the group of girls and the dolls. The movie basically follows Niamh but it doesn't make it particularly scary. It starts with the original family dealing with a haunted house and ultimately dying in a violent night. That's not that scary either. The last act devolves into messy story telling. Missy Keating does a good job in the lead. This indie horror is trying something interest but it doesn't all work and it's not that scary.
kosmasp
I watched this at the Fantasy Film Festival in Stuttgart and the director was attending. I stayed through the movie (which was not easy at all) and was curious to see what the director had to say. Unfortunately (but somehow to be expected) she only confirmed what I already knew. It's unfortunate for the child actors, if they have to go through an (bad acting) experience like this.On the other hand, as others have already stated here, there is not much acting going on in the whole movie. The clichés and the bad lines follow each other hand in hand. It is offensive to its own characters and to the viewers nerves and stomach. Yes horror movies have people do stupid things, but denying yourself (and the audience) even what you saw with your own eyes goes too far. A shame, because underneath it all, there is a Carrie like vibe, that could've been a really good movie ...
Jesse Boland
I'm gonna work hard here not to spoil this one. If you are a fan of Suspense/Horror not the jumpy jolty horror the deeper stuff that needs to be ripped to the surface, then you will most likely want to check this movie out. The acting is very good, a cast of mostly kids doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Not to say that the acting was not just as good by the adults there were just less of them. You will be kept wondering for the first 45 minutes or so, but there is something deeper that you might not catch. The main story though is good if convoluted, and speckled. There is a great story and this would be such an easy movie for any other country to take, and make there own as we see them do. I do have a really hard time recommending this movie to the average movie watcher though, and it is only because most people will not have the patience to really understand, but if you do you may like the direction that this movie takes, and Enjoy it as much as I did. (Spoiler I have to. If they were not guilty wouldn't they have said so at some point? They were all guilty of something that was completely deserving of the consequences. The rest speaks for it's self. Except maybe: How did no one hear the girl screaming if only the neighbor heard the noise. OK that's out of my system.)
