dariustabor-58576 I didn't see the beginning of this movie but I watched the ending and it was awesome the little girl was adorable

AlonzoQuijana What a mess. Instead of using flashbacks, letting the viewer tease out the mystery, the writers just plop it all out in the first 20-minutes. It's 1968, on an orchard in what is implied to be upstate New York (where oranges grow in an inexplicably arid, sun drenched landscape). A super controlling, former father and Hitler aide (or maybe concentration camp "doctor" as is hinted later), dominates his teen daughter and doormat wife. His chief hobbies: taxidermy (mostly of rodents), safekeeping Nazi memorabilia in the basement of the farmhouse, and spraying for pests, while wearing a leather trench coat and World War One era gas mask (producers hoping for a franchise character?). A delivery of a mysterious package containing an iconic amulet, and a letter from a Hitler aide (Hitler is apparently still alive in 1968) gets the movie off and running. Fast forward to today. Four vapid, boy-chasing, wine swilling students travel to the farm house to baby sit the grade school daughter of their college professor (David Naughton!). We later learn, in what may be a scripting goof, that the professor, his wife and the rather annoying child moved in to the farm house earlier that day. But, for no apparent reason they are now, at mid-morning, headed off on a trip, entrusting the little girl to the air-head students for a week.We then get:--20 to 30 minutes of incessant chatter from the girls, fueled by a raid on the household wine supply. --Later: more wine at a lunch-time picnic, some snooping about the barn and later the house, prying into file boxes and what ever else is stored in the basement and in a "forbidden" sewing room. --Next: wine in the living room, and the introduction of a medical sub-plot which is mostly unrelated, petering out after a minute or two. --Then the much predicted thunderstorm strikes and a festival of mayhem and haunted house cliches ensue! Here there are a few good jump scares, but that's about it. The end is unsatisfactory in the extreme. I had fun mentally cataloging all the unanswered questions and plot plight failures. I love bad movies. But if you are serious about haunted house movies, look elsewhere.

Andariel Halo This movie started very slowly (but not a bad thing) focusing on an ex-Nazi in his new life in America with a wife and daughter with whom he is viciously strict with. this part of the story goes on so long that you think it's the main plot, but after he kills his daughter, and then gets killed by his wife, it jumps ahead to modern day, with a group of young women who are staying in the house for reasons not fully explained with a young girl called Irene. From there, it becomes a straightforward Ghost story type thing, with jump scares and running around the house and such. During such time, the women start digging up apparent clues about the ex-Nazi who used to own the house, including the odd gift of a Wehrmacht-looking Iron Cross amulet with inscriptions on it that is apparently of the occult or supernatural.before he died, the ex-Nazi received this as a gift apparently from another Nazi. He carves a hole in his basement workshop, hides the amulet in there, then seals it off with cement. Sporadically throughout the movie, this sealed off spot mysteriously bleeds the image of the iron cross onto it. throughout, Irene claims to be talking to Alice, the murdered daughter of the ex-Nazi, and at some point in the end, Alice's ghost appears to the main character Regan and leads her to where he hid her body. Regan then takes an amulet from her body and escapes with Irene. Then the movie abruptly ends. Nothing involving the seemingly supernatural Iron Cross thing ended up having anything to do with the plot, despite being the subject of a mid-story expo dump via online search. Very little was actually done with the plot elements introduced, as if the person directing or editing the film promptly forgot about everything they initially set up and just went for a quick end

screechy_jim This started so well, Andrew Divoff, Darby Walker and Nina Siemaszko are a late 1960's farming family with a father who has a dark past. The acting is great, the setting well defined and the scenes are set for a great movie. Unfortunately, after this opening sequence we shift to modern day and it becomes another stupid teen horror complete with acting 101 rejects appalling development and a script worthy only for the lining for my birdcage. It's diabolical, and only made worse by the torture of hearing teenage girls chitter needlessly for over half an hour about stuff which doesn't amount to a hill of beans.It really isn't worth a more than a two short paragraph review. Trust me on this one, it needs a miss, give it one.