Spirit

This is not a horror movie, not a thriller or suspense movie either. It's a ghost story for kids with some added teen drama. It is quite slow and does get a bit boring and the acting does seem a bit strange, but it's a tv-movie from 90's era and they often were like this - well not this bad but you know...

This is one of the best ghost films I've seen for a while as its got a mystery and scary things happening. A teenaged girl lost her mother in an accident so she moves with her dad to start fresh. They move into a haunted house and she learns that there's a deeper mystery. I found this an awesome movie.

So, for a 21 year old flick, that certainly must have been made for tv at the time because Greg E wasn't a big crossover movie guy and Elizabeth Moss was quite young and not known, it's not bad. Definitely has a layer of the late 90's style to it, not even into the 2000s yet despite its release date. But, there's something to be said for that...still sort of vanilla and with a story. Let's face it, the whole feel to movies shifted in the next decade as well as watcher attention span and need for doses of adrenaline all the time instead of on occasion. Not every thriller has to freak me out. I enjoyed it, and the story does unfold. I watched it over morning coffee, didn't turn it off...it had a twist. As long as I don't turn it off, it's usually okay. Moss does a good job for not being experienced at the time. Just keep thinking...2001 versus 2022...some innocence still existed in our world.

It feels if the Hallmark channel made "horror films" this is what it'd be. It was weird in the sense it did have a ghost story element, but it was the opposite of scary. Everything is sweet, and works out well, and everyone learns important lessons along the way. It had no tension.

Even the production value looked as though it was made for TV. The story was basic, and slow passed, which it did get a bit more interesting as it went on. So better writing to tighten up the script would have helped this film.

There aren't words to explain how bad this movie is. I think that they're professional writers and there are certainly some professional actors but, everyone seems to have checked their skills at the door. This movie is genuinely a master class in bad writing and bad acting, not to mention, bad make up, hair, and costumes. If you do choose to watch this move, you will probably spend most of your viewing time thinking, for the love of God would someone...anyone please brush Kelly's awful, awful hair. There's really nothing else to say the movie is genuinely as ridiculous as my review.