brittanyls At first, I only watched this movie because Kim Raver was in it, but within the first 5 minutes I was hooked! I will definitely recommend this movie!! This is a great movie; the acting is great, the storyline line is interesting!! It's a great mix of scary and at times sweet! I was on the edge of my seat for some of the scenes-(that has rarely happened watching anything other than X-Files). I love the way Erica's dream sequences are filmed. The black and white colors add to the eeriness of the scenes- with only small amounts of color coming through! I have loved Kim Raver since watching her on 'Third Watch' and especially on '24', but she shows her incredible amount of talent with playing the 2 main roles. She is amazing in how she plays two completely different people! "good" Erica", and "evil" Heather. Two thumbs up for this movie! Big time!

dwr246 The idea that spirits of the dead try to communicate with the living is an intriguing one. And the connection between twins has fascinated humanity for a long time. So, putting them together in a movie ought to make for an interesting and scary movie, right? Wrong! Haunting Sarah really focuses on twins Erica & Heather (Kim Raver in a dual role), who have a very close bond. Erica is college professor who teaches mythology. Heather is a pediatrician. Erica has a daughter named Sarah (Niamh Wilson). Heather has a son named David (Ryland Thiessen) who is almost exactly the same age. The cousins are also very close, and both families live near each other and see a lot of each other. This pleasant setup is shattered when David is killed by a careless driver while trying to retrieve his favorite toy, which he has dropped in the street. When Erica goes to tell Sarah about it, Sarah claims to already know because David told her in a dream. Sarah's behavior becomes more and more bizarre, until her parents decide to get her out of the city and take her to the family cabin for the summer. Grieving, and unable to continue with her practice, Heather comes to join them. As the summer continues, Sarah's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre, as does Heather's. When Erica begins to suspect that Heather is hoping that David will be reincarnated through Erica's unborn baby, things take a particularly strange twist, resulting in some incredible surprises.This could have been a very interesting premise if the writing hadn't been so heavy handed. Unfortunately instead of using subtlety and suspicion to get the point across, the screenwriters beat you over the head with it. The end result is a film which becomes annoyingly bland.Also, much of the characterization makes little sense. If Erica and Heather are really so close, Heather's deception of Erica really shouldn't work. And after Heather's motives have been discovered, why would Erica turn to her for help. Likewise, David was, by all accounts, a good kid. It makes no sense that he returns as an evil spirit, especially as one that is bent on destroying his beloved cousin. Likewise, Sarah's thinly veiled declaration of her intent to get revenge on him at the end of the movie makes little sense, although it is somewhat satisfying after everything that has gone on. The husbands are little more than cardboard cutouts, and Heather's husband, Richard (Gordon Tanner) disappears from the action very early on. Where is he while all of this is going on? What does he think of his wife's actions? Where is he at the end of the film? That's just unforgivably careless writing.The acting doesn't rise above the material much, either. Raver does manage to generate two very different characters for Erica and Heather, but both performances tended to be somewhat wooden. Wilson seems to sleepwalk through the part of Sarah. Thiessen gives David some real malice with the little screen time he gets. Perhaps the best, and most fully realized performance was Alison Sealy-Smith as Rosie, who played her part with verve and commitment.All in all, a rather sodden mess, and given the setup, a real disappointment.

JowySiren The only thing I could think of was "just awful". I found some of the scenes, particularly the ending ones, gratuitous and that such a thing can only be forgiven if the movie/show is stylishly slick or or outright exceptional. This movie was neither.Basically, a young boy dies in an accident and his cousin named Sarah is haunted by his spirit(which for some never really well explained reason is evil. Buh?) There's some supposedly creepy things that happen and Sarah ends up being close to death and the mother(who is an identical twin)has to have son for her to survive(since David wants to come back to life).The movie just fails because it has that generic Lifetime feel that both tries too hard yet not hard enough. Only the Sarah girl was any good. Everyone else was just wooden. I have to admit though, I did like the leather costume on one of the twin women. That was pretty cool, but before and after that was either lame(kid in Devil mask? Bah!), needlessly disgusting(I don't think a C-section should have been that graphic. YECH! Only House and CSI could get away with that), or just "meh"(amulets to ward off spirits? How original).If you're a die hard spirit horror fan, you might like it. If not, best to steer clear. I should have.

twocortwort7 I admit that at first the previews kind of scared me and I wasn't going to watch this movie. Just the title turned me off really, but come Monday night at 8:55pm I was like, OK I am going to watch this movie. I had the TV turned to Lifetime anyways. (one of my favorite channels) At first, I thought, gosh its going to be a real spooker because of the masks at the beginning with the Halloween party and I almost turned the channel! But as it went on, I got into it. I knew about David dying in the previews, but it got me when his spirit went "Sarah!" I felt so bad for Heather, but I was upset they killed David so early on in the movie.But how David's spirit made weird things happen, like when Rosie gave Sarah the friendship bracelet, I had a feeling that David wasn't going to like that and nor was I shocked that he was trying to hurt/kill Sarah by tightening the bracelet. And then the doll house, that was really spooky to me! But I had a feeling when Erica became pregnant, she was going to have the re-incarnation of David or twins. Just that odd feeling to myself.I never imagined this movie would end the way it did with Sarah jumping off the roof! I was in tears when this happened! And then the dramatic birth of the twins, all though seeing the first one born was a girl, I was like oh Gosh! Sarah is going to die. But then thinking down those lines of twins I was like the next one will be a boy.The ending left me hanging with Sarah calling her brother Jack "David" but it's like is it over for real this time or not?