Michael_Premsrirat The quality of the film is so poor. The story itself is fine, the plot is serviceable. However, the execution of the script is so awful-- stilted dialogue, long ridiculous stretches of exposition. Over- explaining things for the foreign markets? No, it's just amateurish.Poorly shot, even though the visual ideas are quite good; it's just not carried out well.And the gore ... most of the other reviewers seem to love it. I think it's effective, although not necessarily masterful.I don't think anyone set out to make a bad movie. I think it's a director and some actors (not good, but making the effort ... don't know how they can understand each other with five million accents going on) who tried really hard. Maybe they didn't have the budget/resources to do it well, or the entire crew didn't care about the product at all. Worst case/worst crime--the director did his best and thought this was good. Ugh.

aesgaard41 I checked this movie out expected a fair to almost decent ghost movie, but it's actually the slowest horror movie I've ever seen. It's about a girl who survives a massacre at her father's house which looks like John Wayne Gacy doing a job for Charles Manson. A lot of boring gore which shouldn't be in a ghost movie and then shoot to the present and we meet the girl whose now an adult. She has no memories of the night and looks up the murders on the Internet and realizes she was the survivor. The drama filling the plot has the ingredients of a murder mystery of who killed her family and why did she survive and did she really do it. Along the way, she's seeing images of her father's dead corpse on TV and you think, is he having hallucinations or is she the victim of psychological terror. Everyone else leaves or enters just as the images happen which suggests they're being faked, but when she returns to the family home, things become really ridiculous. The detective with her and a band of cops are attacked and ripped apart in a bloodbath of gore and you realize "Oh, it's one of *those* movies." More obscene blood and gore, needless scenes of heads pulled off... it seems dad and the family are not ghosts but zombies in excess deterioration... or maybe they are ghosts because she seems them beyond the house.... or maybe they're zombies. The movie doesn't answer that question. If they were ghosts, you'd think the bullets would just pass through them and hit the wall. Anyway, it's not a good horror movie, but you just wait for the subplot of a murder mystery to catch up and become more interesting, of which, it never does. A remake could conceivably improve on the plot and effects. Bottom line: if you're going to make a ghost movie, forget the blood and guts and try and keep it believable.

Heislegend Let's face it...most people do not know the name Olaf Ittenbach. And to an extent, for good reason. While I'm a fan of his, I find it hard to watch a lot of his earlier stuff and even his newer stuff can be hard to find. But if you're a gorehound (I would not say that about myself, but I do love a good splatter movie now and again), then a healthy Ittenbach collection is a must. It would be very hard to make an argument that anyone currently working in special effects (let alone directing) has the talent he has for making a head go pop or letting loose an almost hilariously unnecessary amount of blood at one time.With that said, Ittenbach's movies seem to have a bit of a formula to them. They'll usually assault you virtually in the opening credits, drag along for a little while, give you a pretty intense amount of non-stop gore, fade away for a bit longer, and then hit you with a blood soaked climax. The trick is to make it through the parts that are boring to get to the good stuff. "Rebecca Verlaine" is a prime example of this. Mass murder within the first 5 minutes, then a pretty unimpressive story for 20-30 minutes, a big dose of people getting their faces ripped in two and/or their limbs torn off, more boring crap for awhile, and then a nice finale so Ittenbach can let you know who's boss. That...and his trademark disregard for accents. I swear, if there's 4 people in a scene at least 2 of them will have different accents from the others. And there's no rhyme or reason. Sometimes one brother has a German accent and the other British...Olaf doesn't care.In the hands of a less capable special effects man, this easily would be nearly unwatchable. But as it stands it's quite watchable, especially for the aforementioned gorehounds. A 7 may be a bit of a stretch, but what can I say...I'm a tad biased towards the man's movies. Now if it could just have been as cool as "House Of Blood"...

Sinister_Zombie I've watched some of Ittenbach's stuff before, and come to know them as entertainment, purely and simply. No strong story or anything, you can't really empathise with the characters, but the effects are impressive and its a way to kill a couple of hours.Basically its the story of a girl who's family gets slaughtered when she's little and she barely survives but because of all the trauma etc. she can't remember a thing. Anyway, when she's older it starts coming back to her and the ghosts or spirits of her dead family come and tell her to lure their killers into the house. fairly simple, straight forward story with a few of the usual clichés, but as I mentioned before, the focus is on the gore effects.Acting isn't the greatest, but that didn't bother me a great deal.Gore is quite free-flowing, with a few impressive slaughter scenes in a variety of way - knives, machete's, hands, people getting dismembered, disembowelled, heads crushed, split open, drills and throats getting slit. Whew...quite a list, but there's quite a bit of it going on. Like I mentioned before, grab a few beers and just enjoy yourself really, don't take it seriously and you won't be disappointed. For a low budget gore flick, it does the job pretty well and people who're into this stuff I think will enjoy it.