I found this horror movie on Netflix streaming. I watched it for two reasons. The first is the wine country theme, my wife and I have visited various California and French wine areas over the years and I always enjoy seeing vineyards. The second is Jim Parsons who plays the OB GYN doctor here. Parsons grew up near us and of course is now famous as Sheldon on the TV series and I wanted to see what he would do with a non-comedy role.
The story may seem a bit complex but it isn't. A young couple pursue their dream, at least his dream, to own and operate a winery. So they find one that has been shut down for a few years and in need of TLC so they buy it. Unaware that some strange things have been reported there over the years.
The wife gets pregnant and soon starts having visions in and near their new home. But they are strange visions in that bottles of wine may break, a window shatters, a gun is seen on the floor, but when she calls her husband there are no traces of any of that.
Isla Fisher is the young wife, Eveleigh Maddox, and Anson Mount is the wine-making husband David Maddox. Gillian Jacobs is Sadie, also pregnant and a new friend. And Jim Parsons is the Ob Gyn Dr. Mathison.
Overall I did not find it to be a very good movie. It was entertaining many times but it is also the type of movie that left me with a "so what" feeling at the end.
SPOILERS: What the wife was seeing were premonitions, facilitated by the spirits of the former residents. They were warnings of what would soon happen. But when they started happening there wasn't really anything to do to counteract it, only to think "Oh, that is why I saw those things." It was all related to the new friend Sadie who wasn't really pregnant but was planning on stealing Eveleigh's baby. In a flashback we see that Eveleigh was in an accident that caused the other woman to lose her baby, now she couldn't have another, that other woman was Sadie. But in the final encounter and shoot-out Eveleigh and David prevail, but they sell the house and move.
The story may seem a bit complex but it isn't. A young couple pursue their dream, at least his dream, to own and operate a winery. So they find one that has been shut down for a few years and in need of TLC so they buy it. Unaware that some strange things have been reported there over the years.
The wife gets pregnant and soon starts having visions in and near their new home. But they are strange visions in that bottles of wine may break, a window shatters, a gun is seen on the floor, but when she calls her husband there are no traces of any of that.
Isla Fisher is the young wife, Eveleigh Maddox, and Anson Mount is the wine-making husband David Maddox. Gillian Jacobs is Sadie, also pregnant and a new friend. And Jim Parsons is the Ob Gyn Dr. Mathison.
Overall I did not find it to be a very good movie. It was entertaining many times but it is also the type of movie that left me with a "so what" feeling at the end.
SPOILERS: What the wife was seeing were premonitions, facilitated by the spirits of the former residents. They were warnings of what would soon happen. But when they started happening there wasn't really anything to do to counteract it, only to think "Oh, that is why I saw those things." It was all related to the new friend Sadie who wasn't really pregnant but was planning on stealing Eveleigh's baby. In a flashback we see that Eveleigh was in an accident that caused the other woman to lose her baby, now she couldn't have another, that other woman was Sadie. But in the final encounter and shoot-out Eveleigh and David prevail, but they sell the house and move.