Donald Buehler Demi Moore in Half Light provides a convincing picture of how difficult it is to get over the death of a loved one. First of all the scenery - sea side - lighthouse of Scotland is perfect. The cottage she goes to would be great to stay at while you recuperate from whatever - if it weren't for the ghosts. This is one of the few films which actually gave me chills. Even the fairly predictable scenes with her dead son were well done and creepy. A lot is done with shadows, music and the overall atmosphere of the cottage - the sea side town - and the lighthouse.There is a minor attempt at portraying her as a crazy writer (Jack Nicholson in "The Shining") and the portrayal of the strange events surrounding her make us wonder - has she lost it? - or there ghosts? (I, of course was pulling for the ghosts.)The ending is a little Hollywood - I would have preferred something more tragic, but it was OK. My rating of an 8 is based on the creeps - spooky ambiance - and the scenery.Worth your while. DonB

ravenheart94 Everything about this movie is just so awkward and hollow and poorly done. Demi Moore plays a writer who starts having hallucinations and episodes following the death of her little son. She tries to cope by moving to a small, tight-knit town in Scotland. While looking for research/info. at a remote island, she meets an attractive young lighthouse keeper by the name of Angus McCullough (who we later find is *GASP* actually a long-dead guy who lived there, and the guy Moore's character meets is part of a conspiracy with her friend/husband,to murder her and get her 4 million pound writing fortune).I think the creepy psychic woman would have made a better main character. The character's behaviors are aren't very believable: For example, within the space of about 4 minutes Moore goes from being depressed and grieving to a warm sex scene. The soundtrack of the movie mainly consists of cliché Gaelic music, and a theme that sounds like a really obvious ripoff of The Exorcist. It's kind of annoying. The camera work is pretty cheap, too. It's very easy to spot the moments where they had to have multiple takes for a scene transition. Overall this movie wasn't exciting or suspenseful. The only morbid entertainment I really got was laughing at the insanity of Moore's character, the hammed-up murder scenes & how poor the whole film was.

buddybhupender I saw this movie just because of Demi Moore. She is a good actress and i have loved her work over the years. I got the chance to see this on a satellite channel. And from start to finish everything about the movie was predictable. The screenplay miserably fails to catch viewers interest. Tragedy hits a family and they go somewhere to recover mentally and strange things begins to happen. Here the center of the story is Moore. so nothing new with the story and thousand times repeated camera tricks in other Hollywood movies makes it a pain to watch. The way story progresses is so predictable that no one would dare to finish it. I love Demi Moore but sorry honey we cannot watch repeated formulas of movie script. In a nutshell, waste of time. Don't buy it... just borrow.

Leofwine_draca I hate films that can't stand by the courage of their own convictions, and HALF LIGHT is such a film. What begins as a fairly atmospheric ghost story, bolstered by some beautiful location photography, falls apart around two-thirds of the way in thanks to a massive and completely unbelievable twist. The twist is so appalling, so badly conceived, that it destroys the film's own internal logic, as well as opening up about half a dozen plot holes, the size of which you could drive an oil tanker through.Before the twist, the film does pretty good. It's saddled with non-actress Demi Moore in the leading role of course, which doesn't help, but the scenery alone is worth watching for. Some decent supporting actors, like the dependable James Cosmo and the edgy Hans Matheson, take our attention away from Moore's lack of ability. There are even a few poignant romantic scenes that I found touching.Then comes the twist, which turns the whole plot on its head, and it never recovers between then and the silly ending. It would have worked much better as it started out – a romantic, ghostly, atmospheric mystery, instead of blowing it with some Hollywood scribe's ill-conceived idea of cool. Fail.