nowego If you can ignore the basic and sometimes crappy production values, you can expect a surprising good movie. This is a B movie after it shows in some of the dialogue. Don't let that distract you.At times very slow moving and some would say quite boring to the point where a lot of people would turn it off.......DON'T. The last 30 minutes of so makes up for the whole movie and for me made it worth watching to the end.Really good performances from Zohra Lampert and Mariclare Costello, neither of whom I had never heard of until I watched this. The rest of the actors are a bit wooden, but that could easily be blamed on the script and dialogue.The really great thing about this movie is that the ending is completely open to interpretation. Did it all happen or was it all the imagination of a really messed up mind?If you don't mind old movies with low production values this is one worth watching.An easy 7/10 for me, well worth the 90 minutes.

Johan Louwet Slow burners can really be good but a formula for success they are not at least not for me. I think Zohra Lampert did a good job playing Jessica, a young woman recently released from a mental hospital trying to pick up her life again with her husband Duncan and friend of the family Woody. they move into a house on the countryside where they meet up with Emily, who had broken into the house. But Jessica feels sorry for this young girl who seemingly has no place else to go, so Emily can stay as long as she desires. So the townspeople are quite weird, Emily gets manipulative over the newbies and Jessica hears voices in her head. She also sees things that others don't but still she tries her best that nothing is wrong. If not for her good screenplay I would have rated this movie even lower. The other characters including Emily are just not interesting nor is the storyline any exciting and pretty predictable at that. The finale is really disappointing. Not a fan of vampires but this must be one of the lamest vampire movies I have seen.

hellraiser7 Nightmares can be really strange sometimes because for mere moments despite how unreal everything we see is we actually believe it's real and that we are in mortal danger. It's probably the main reason why we're so afraid of them because of the possibility that is embedded in our head, the very looming threat that it could happen even though it hasn't.This is another under the radar horror gem that is another pleasant surprise for me. It's no doubt a weird horror movie because it's one of those psychological horror's which really challenge your perceptions. John Handcock, I feel with this film really shows he a capable horror movie director, it's a shame he didn't do a bit more in the genre but oh well. It's almost kinda funny and almost ironic since long after this film he did the memorable Christmas film "Prancer" (which was a film I really liked) much as horror director Bob Clark did "A Christmas Story".But anyway I do like the story which is simple and that's part of what makes it work, keeping simple and uncomplicated. It almost reminds me of any of the stories in the "Silent Hill" video game series like in that series it's always about strange things happening in a isolated location and one individual is trapped in it. It's true some would say there isn't much cohesion in places of the film, but I think that was intentional to enhance the mystery of the story, where how much you don't know is a lot more scarier that what you do.The film was done on a low budget but I felt it was used well and right, once again showing how it's possible great quality really can bloom from such a small budget. There are no special effects, due to the story it didn't really need them. I really liked the use of the location, from the weather conditions there to the country locale, it really looked and felt like someplace cut away from everyone and everything which made it all the more creepy, but most of all really had a look of a dream like atmosphere. The cinematography I thought was great this film has some really memorable images and scenes that made you feel like you were at time in some sort of nightmare. The music was great and I feel one of the most underrated scores in horror, it really helped create an eerie unsafe atmoshere.I do like the character Jessica (Zobra Lampert), her character is sympathetic because she's just got out of a psychiatric institute and is just trying to get her life back together again, which makes her slightly fragile psychologically. She's got some strange interests like a hobbie of tracing old tombstones which is I'll admit bizarre but hey everyones got their thing. As well as her fascination with the supernatural and old things from times long gone. But also there is that possibility that she may have psychic powers which is hinted at a little from her past brought up, but probably doesn't know it since she doesn't exhibit a sense of control or understanding of them.The character Emily(Mariclare Costello)is also interesting because she's a constant enigma. She seems like just an ordinary person from her interactions with the characters, but then there are moments when she exhibits some unusual behavior, which shows she's not whom she seems. Let alone in one scene we see a picture of a family from the 1800's and there's a woman that looks a lot like her. It's possible she could just be a descendant whom most of the time look like there counterparts, but she claimed she was a complete stranger that just came to the house and had no knowledge; thing is coincidences like that don't exist so something more has to be going on with her.The suspense is very good, it's true that it's kinda a slow burn but you get use to it, as the film gets further the pace does pick up. I really like how we see as Jessica is investigating we see her perception of reality being constantly challenged just as ours is. Things happen but then they don't and then they do. Some parts of the film I can believe are really happening, while others I think are things that are in her mind or she is somehow being psychically attacked I don't know.Some of the things you see are really strange like marks on some of the residents and her husband, some girl that is constantly appearing and warning Jessica that I feel is probably Jessica unknowingly contacting her, and of course that boat scene which is my favorite and I feel the most suspenseful scene where Jess is defending herself against someone that is trying to tip the boat.This film is also one of those rare ones that really makes you draw some of your own conclusions in the end to what you've seen. Which is the main reason I really like the film is it's still a mystery in the end.Sometimes the line between reality and nightmares can be non existent and there's no where to hide.Rating: 3 and a half stars

Zachar_Laskewicz The lurid title could easily side-track you from what is essentially an extremely frightening exploration of a woman's descent into madness. You can read it, of course, in a material sense as the title suggests; but everything in this film has the potential to signify something else entirely, and its this ambiguity that makes this film so macabre and interesting. Everything, from the killing of the 'mole' to the conclusion where Jessica is trapped in the middle of a lake on a barely floating boat, could be signifying or at least implying something else. Classic metaphors for the human consciousness are bodies of water; being trapped in one or drowning metaphors for madness. The films ambivalent set of monsters, from a strange set of undead elderly villagers to sexually promiscuous vampires, threaten Jessica and her sanity. The fact that there is no ultimate explanation for the strange set of phenomena that take place is also demonstrative of the horrific and inexplicable quality of psychotic behaviour for those suffering from schizophrenia (for those of us that have had the misfortune to experience it) or the side-effects of drugs. This film is really worth seeing