Not quite as awful as the 2.8 rating suggests but it's still not a good movie let alone a great one. There are moments certainly, there's a spooky music score, Andra Martin is an appealing enough female lead, Robin Hughes is appropriately menacing and the head effects are okay. Unfortunately that is pretty much it for the halfway decent moments. The rest of the effects are substandard at best, and the other production values don't fare that much better with spare settings and barely competent photography. The less said about the dialogue the better, a lot of it was very stilted and often difficult to understand in terms of clarity. There is a campiness to the goings on and to the rather thin and dully paced story. And sadly what was meant as a horror-thriller is lacking in any thrills or scares, it's all predictable, dull and unintentionally funny. Martin and Hughes are the only decent actors here too, the rest are terrible, the worst offenders being Carolyn Kearney who embarrassingly overacts and Peggy Converse who is just as obnoxious with a voice that really grates on the ears. Overall, pretty bad but not completely terrible, there's worse out there. 4/10 Bethany Cox
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