joshfedderson Recently, I have not seen any new Costner Films but as I was browsing my local FYE (For Your Entertainment) Store I saw this film in the Horror section. I saw it stared Kevin Costner and that it was made in 2009 which is not too new but kind of recent. I had to buy it because Kevin Costner is a great actor and I love his films. So I bought it and watched it. This movie "The New Daughter" is not a bad film, I believe Kevin Costner deserves more but I wasn't disappointed. The story is about a single, divorced Dad John James who moves his two children into a woodland area home. He is a writer, and is struggling to make ends meet financially and with his kids emotionally, who are effected by the recent divorce. As the family settles in, strange sounds and events occur. Eventually, the family discovers a mysterious mound in the woods and then things start to get bad from there. The daughter starts to act weird and does strange things, which concerns James. The movie was good, for a horror movie it had it's surprises and jumps and the story was really good too. Kevin is at his best with his American acting style. The girl who played the daughter Louisa was great and she freaked you out a lot as well, the little boy Sam was good too, very talented young actors. The part that really stumped me was the ending though, I was like "What the Heck!!?" but then after hearing the directors commentary I understood and have my own ending of the film."The New Daughter" is a great horror and popcorn movie and it's great with Kevin Costner in it. I didn't recognize any other actor/actresses in the film but they did a great job as well. And it's interesting how it's a horror movie with native american lore in it which I find really cool. I give Kevin Costner's "The New Daughter" an 8/10

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Kevin Costner movie in order I come to The New Daughter from 2009Plot In A Paragraph: John (Kevin Costner) is a writer; whose wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to a house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa. She starts sleepwalking clutching a straw doll no one's seen before. She visits the mound often, staying late, coming home covered with mud. As Louisa's behaviour becomes more bizarre, John learns thehouse has a history and seeks out answers.A routine and cliché horror flick, KC does his solid reliable job as always and the supporting cast are all OK too. I'm not really a fan of horror movies though, as I find them routine and predictable. It has a few unresolved plot issues and pacing problems at times too. Although I was amused to see a Freddie Mercury poster on his daughters bedroom wall. KC remains as watchable as always, but these are not two of his better hours.

GL84 After moving to a new house, a man slowly starts to accept his young daughter's change-in-behavior in the cause of a curse connecting the strange Indian burial mound in the area and tries to free her of the danger.This is a rather enjoyable offering though it tends to fall more in line with a thriller than an actual horror film. The fact that the entire premise is unraveled so slowly due to none of the actions taken resulting in generating any actual scares but rather just the fact that something weird is happening in the first place, there's not a lot going on here that actively makes what goes on here creepy. Rather, these early scenes are all based on the general concept on her slowly getting possessed and in general just acting off from her usual behavior but never actually doing anything remotely scary or chilling while doing so, resulting in the majority of these scenes having her run away upset over the justified questioning of what's happening as if doing so is the greatest threat to her privacy she's ever faced. The slow integration with the history and presence of the Indian mound and it's influences shift this back somewhat into a more horror-filled storyline with the true nature of the possession finally coming into focus and taking the scenes from then on in the story into a more chilling phase which really highlights the rest of the movie quite well. The assault on the house, full of barricades, blocked furniture and more, makes for a great action scene and the final journey into the deepest parts of the mound do serve as some immeasurably chilling works that truly feel as though the entire purpose was to creep out from the start such is the effectiveness of these scenes. The central premise about the father's quest to protect is quite well-handled moreso as an after-thought once the full effect of what's going on is handled here since it really doesn't work when playing through but serves quite well when combined with the later information gleamed which really makes it quite enjoyable and furthers this one quite nicely. The main influence being a thriller more than horror film does hurt this one somewhat, but it's still an enjoyable and watchable effort.Rated R: Language, Violence and children-in-jeopardy.

bowmanblue Ever since The Ring hit the mainstream market with its American incarnation there have been numerous imitations where something spooky happens to someone's child/children and they have to save the youngster from a killer video tape/cell phone/computer game. In Kevin Costner's case, the killer object menacing his teenage daughter is a mound of earth. That does give you some idea of just how scary the rest of the film is.Perhaps the first problem The New Daughter suffers from is that the 'daughter' in question is just so annoying. She never stops moaning and griping (as most teenagers do I guess), only, because she's come into contact with a mound of earth, she's doing it more than most. About the only good thing she does is 'take out' the most clichéd bully-girl in cinematic history.The first half of the film is just setting the audience up with various apparently-innocent events which will all have some darker significance later on. Kevin does his best to understand his daughter, doing what all horror films' central protagonists do, i.e. look on the internet and phone a local expert who just so happens to live really close and be into just the right paranormal phenomenon that you require help with.The second half things get a little more intense. Not much, just a little. As in all other horror films, the police and other supporting characters are there just to be killed.There is nothing notably wrong with The New Daughter, but there's nothing particular right about it either. We've seen it all before and done better (i.e. spookier arty cut scenes in The Ring). If you've never seen a horror film before (then where have you been?) you may just like it. But I just couldn't get Lisa Simpson's words out of my head when she encountered Kevin Costner in an episode of The Simpsons. She simply said, "Poor Mr Costner - he tries so hard."http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/