GL84 Taking a new job in the city, a newly divorced woman and her two teenage daughters move into a grand house and come to discover someone else is living there that has dangerous plans for the family and must save them before it go through.As this was a typical Lifetime style haunted house film, there's some really enjoyable moments here. What really works here is the fact that this one really makes the ghostly action here that really has an impressive air here. The start here, with the ghost hands appearing from the broken wall after initially finding that secret room, is a good start and as it gets deeper here these get even better with the flicking lights and ballerina box playing constantly whenever someone enters the room start this off quite nicely. Along with the rather creepy way the ghost keeps appearing in short visual cuts of the daughter seeing her around the house and up in the attic, there's a really solid air here that makes the suspected situations come off quite well and giving this something to work with when it gets to the more pronounced ghostly actions. The big encounter here is the scene of her being trapped in the closet and prying it open which rips open her hands as she's released, as well as the later gag of the jewelry box as she walks into the room to watch her sleep, and along with the actual possession scene here where the ghost appears and presents the necklace that leads to the possession which takes place in full-view of the terrified victim for a rather nice amount of fun here. This one also manages to get some nice work her in the final half of the possessed girl around the house giving this a rather fine atmosphere here, which is all enough there to make up for the minor flaws within this. The biggest element against this one is that it all too readily betrays its origins, being filled with all the usual prerequisites for this type of film as there's long stretches of time without any horror angles and too many useless elements merely meant for women to be hooked into watching that have no bearing on the plot as a whole. That usually means that most of the scares here build- up to a drama about her skills as a mother rather than horror angles, and they do cause this some problems because of that. The other main problem here is the rushed finale, as the brawl comes off rather clunky and off-putting by being so stagy, and the events here make it seem even weaker as there's another big problem with the scene away from the ideas behind the scene. While there's some good parts that make for some decent times here and there, these few flaws do hold it back.Rated Unrated/PG-13: Violence and Language.

TheBlueHairedLawyer Molly and Lizzie live with their mom in a crowded apartment building. Mom buys a huge and very old house away from the city life they're used to from a sleazy real-estate agent who doesn't tell them about the missing woman who lived there decades ago.Lizzie is happy to have her own room, a large room in the basement. Her family helps her knock down the useless wall so that her room will be bigger, and in doing so they release a force that terrorizes the family and eventually possesses Lizzie with the spirit of a German woman who was sealed alive in the walls.Secrets in the Walls is your basic cliché ghost story. Lizzie is a shallow, boring character with no personality, and as usual they pull the emo routine with her by making the ghost attack her and making it appear as though Lizzie hurt herself. Molly is a typical blonde, whiny-voiced, bratty little girl who, as in most ghost story films like Poltergeist and the Messengers, can perceive bad events and sense the ghost. The trailer-trash mom is pretty boring but her co-worker, the medium, was a very interesting character. The soundtrack was bad, especially the song that played when the family was knocking the wall down, it was an unnecessary pop song that really added the element of annoying to the movie. The ghost was typical, its past boring and a copy of other movies. The ending was pretty cheesy and the acting was terrible, but the scenery was pretty good so it deserves a few stars just for the nice old house. I think it was a beautiful house, not creepy by any stretch of the imagination. This movie is a great example of why Lifetime should just stick to making true crime and drama movies, horror doesn't work with them.

jonnygouda Let me summarize the first part of the movie quickly:Single woman with two kids moves into dilapidated, old mansion she gets cheap because the owner is out of town, inherited it and just wants to sell it quickly.A slightly clairvoyant youngest daughter who can sense and see things that no one else can who everyone thinks is just frightened of a new place.Happy –go-lucky scenes to begin with complete with a renovation scene with happy family rock and dancing ala "Cheaper by the Dozen" (the new one with Steve Martin).A scene of a mysterious hole in the wall that shows a creepy hand after the family stops looking into it.A creepy music box that plays without being wound. Images of creepy, dead people suddenly appearing in the mirror or behind a doorway that the victim doesn't originally see. …except for the slightly clairvoyant youngest daughter who gets terrorized nd still not believed.Unexplained bloody nose. Creaking doors and flickering lights.Sudden scaring of the older daughter and doors that suddenly jam with scary music being played and the older daughter that now BELIEEEEEVES! But is of course written off as simply being stressed out.The slightly clairvoyant little girl who realizes the scary dead girl ghost "wants us to know something…"You can probably guess the ending from there. No need to explain the rest. Kind of sad to see Jerri Ryan – 7 of 9, the 'Borg from Star Trek – reduced to this. I love a classic ghost story, but this is so textbook, cookie cutter it would be difficult to scare a 10 year old with it. Quite frankly, I've seen episodes of "A Haunting" which dramatizes slightly famous real-life haunting s that have made popular culture. Even "Ghost Hunters" is more entertaining.Jerri Ryan seems to have aged more than the 10 years in between Star Trek: Voyager and this movie. :'( And as was said earlier, this does have all the feeling of a great afternoon show for the lady viewers of the Lifetime Network LOL.But, if you decide you really want to watch this, I'd record it (unless you can find it on Hulu or Netflix) because the 2-hour TV movie is only about 80 minutes after you subtract 40 minutes of commercials using fast-forward. -sigh...-

VBarkley Don't waste 2 hours of your life you'll never see again, unless you really like Jeri Ryan, who can act her way out of a haunted house. Actually, all of the acting is pretty decent. A mother (Jeri Ryan) and her two daughters move into a historic home, and experience some strange happenings. After researching the house's history at the local library, the mom discovers a young bride who lived there in the 1950's disappeared. After discovering the woman's remains behind a wooden panel, police say they'll investigate. They believe the woman's spirit is now at peace, but their nightmare has just begun.Now, if you're expecting them to solve the ghost's cold case, you'll be disappointed. There's really no 'why' as to most of the things that happened in this movie. Dumb, dumb, dumb.