The Spiritualist

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

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.

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.

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.

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.