mrspleen-10683
Just finished watching this film, aka "The Haunting of Briar House", as part of a horror/chiller Halloween season on a TV channel and I was pretty impressed by it.Most of the movie was standard, OKish haunted house fare that was peppered (but thankfully not spattered) by some decent gory effects. However, the ending of the film was what made it worth six stars, especially the final scene as the car makes its way to its next destination...
Edgar Iván H
If you want to see a horror movie, and you have seen most of them, this one will entertain you, is not the best but is a decent horror flick with decent acting, it can keep you trying to understand what is going one, and you wont know until the end of the movie. Please do not see this movie with great expectations, but I can guarantee that if you are fan of horror movies this one will be decent for you.
jtindahouse
There's an awful lot wrong with 'The Unspoken'. As I was watching it I was thinking to myself that it was one of the worst horror movies I've seen - and I've seen a lot of terrible horror movies. The amount of jump scares that turn out to be absolutely nothing is quite ridiculous. Jump scares are fine if there is a genuine reason for them relating to the story. Occasionally a misleading one can be thrown in, I accept that. But when there have been about 10-15 of them and none of them have turned out to be anything more than a cat jumping out of nowhere, it gets pretty frustrating. The other main problem I had, was that other than the opening scene, almost the entire movie happens during daylight hours. There's nothing scary about daylight. I don't think there's a film maker alive who could pull off an effective horror movie filmed entirely during the day. This was absolute amateur hour from director Sheldon Wilson.The acting is bad, the dialogue is bad and the story is completely boring. There was almost nothing good going for it. Then along came the ending. It's a very interesting ending that I happened to quite like. I'm not talking 'The Usual Suspects' or 'Memento' type quality, and maybe it just seemed like a better ending because everything else had been so terrible and I wanted to like something about it. Regardless though, I liked it. In fact it bumped it up from being a '3' to a '4'. Is the horrible lead up worth it for the ending though? I'm going to stick with a no on that one.
subxerogravity
Overall, it could have been a very interesting film.The simple plot is that a young girl gets a job as a baby sitter for a new family living in a house known in the small town for it's reputation, but then there is an interesting twist to the ghost story that could have been an eye opener and made this something horror fans would want to gravitate toThe thing is, the production on this was weak, not because it's a low budget horror film, but nothing came together in an exciting way. Everything was too standard to be interesting. you can tell from the beginning that the frights were not going to do anything. From the first "scare" all of them just bounce right off you rather than having them bounce you out of your seat.I really wish it could have been better, but it was just boring.
AD
