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The story was good. It has potential. The acting just so bad. The only one I give any props to is Caroline Burns Cooke, the spiritualist.

The sound was so bad at times I couldn't hear the dialog. Then it was so loud it was over whelming. The set was gorgeous. The estate was beautiful.

So, somewhat a telling of a ghost story, but the presentation is a bit confusing at first given the jumps in time that aren't well delineated. Then the movie shifts to a "spiritualist" coming to the home of the couple that the wife is plagued by visions of her deceased mother. It builds some sense of tension up to this point, then the plot shifts to keep itself hidden so there can be some twist at the end. It was still unclear at the end what was actually happening even though a point or two were clarified. The film was able to capture enough of an atmosphere that I could almost overlook the rather amateurish acting (Can Jake stop calling his wife "Babe" in every line he speaks to her?"). I wasn't completely bored while watching, but I was left without much feeling for this film.

Please read this review before committing your valuable time to this failure of a movie. The only conclusion I can draw is the positive reviews (some of which are absolutely *glowinug*) are "canned" reviews by people in the movie. My wife and I sat down to watch this, with fairly high hopes, and as time passed......and we watched our lives cut shorter and shorter with each passing second wasted on this dog of a movie, we became very frustrated. There isn't even a cogent story line to follow. What's it about? Shouldn't you have a general idea within the first 20 minutes of the movie? But you don't. The scenery is interesting. It was shot in an old house. If you need to see pics of an old house, go to Pinterest and search for Old House. 5 minutes and you are done. But as for the movie, it's a turd.

With friends like that, who needs enemies. I'm talking of Laura's so called friends that appear during a seance. She doesn't know any of them but that's why the film fails. None of the characters are likeable. The story makes no sense and it jumps a lot. The best thing about it was the beautiful castle it was filmed in. The only reason I watched it was to see a ghost, but instead it was full of sounds of people gulping. All I can say is in one word: yawn.

This is the British Blair Witch Project with steadier cameras. Endless, plotless bleh that makes no sense.

Possibly the worst movie I've seen. It makes more sense to view as comedic attempt at acting. Otherwise don't waste your time.

This movie is the reason why ALL movies' full synopsis should be posted on the internet! I watched this -even some scenes more than once - and I STILL didn't work out the ending! I've heard it called another "Sixth Sense", but I swear, I just don't see it! This is driving me crazy! Would I watch it again? Yeh, probably will - but only to figure out what was going on!

The difficulty, I think, was all the back and forth from past to present. The actors often wore the same clothing in both time settings, so it was very confusing.

The Spiritualist was good in some scenes , then others acted as if she didn't know what she was there to do. But one of her high moments was when she was discussing the man's dead twin brother. The man's reactions to her description were so touching, heartbreaking, yet encouraging.

Perhaps, if I figure out the "mysteries" in this film, I'll find more scenes like that. I hope I can. The worst thing a filmmaker can do is to drop the story, leaving it unfinished and untold.

Since this was labeled a true story I thought it would be very interesting to watch. Well, I was wrong. It's not the first time. It was difficult to understand the plot because it was all over the place. At the end I was shaking my head because I thought the end would clear up the confusion, but it didn't. If you have something better to do, then do it because this movie would be a waste of time.

I watched this despite some low scores because I'm really chugging through the horrors on Amazon, and, with it being on Prime, thought it was worth a gamble. I'm glad I did because I was engaged with the story throughout and taken by surprise a couple of times. The spiritualist herself is a great character played very nicely.

The story requires a bit of concentration, but I felt I understood it and was pretty satisfied by the payoff. It's fairly well-shot and produced and doesn't feel like a bargain basement feature (I'd say it has solid TV-quality production values) so 100% worth a watch if you like supernatural mysteries. However, it's definitely not terrifying, so avoid if you just want scares!

I came across this film on Youtube and seemed to have a decent story to it, after twenty minutes I kept saying it will get better...it never did. It seems to pick up and then go downhill a lot, the acting is not the greatest, some bits go slow and others parts go on too long, the twist at the end was not well executed properly, Having Julie Wallace and Ian Reddington star in it that caught my attention, there acting talents are wasted in this.

The mansion this was shot in was beautiful, and I actually liked the spiritualist who comes to the home, but everyone else was annoying. The "friends" were exceptionally rude and no one, even the main woman character, seemed to like any of them. The big twists at the end were interesting, but by that time someone didn't pay the electric bill because it got very, very dark. Maybe some editing would have helped a bit as well. It's not a bad movie, but I just didn't care.

The movie was fine. It's worth a glance. It was a brutish film... people get on here talking about bad acting... It was a brutish film! It was based on true events, I'm thinking the multiple hauntings that people have had to go through throughout time.

I really enjoyed this film and loved the twists and turns .... great to see Julie t Wallace in something again .... also great performances from Judson Vaughan and Ross William wild who has gone on to front spandau ballet

The Spiritualist is actually a pretty good thriller with real moments of tension. The acting is good although the characters were a little on the cliched side. The best performance was from. Julie T Wallace (Lives And Loves Of A She Devil) as the mentally ill mother. I know that many people found the film to be a little slow, but I liked the way it took it's time to allow the story to unfold. It did get a muddled towards the end, but it was still enjoyable to watch.