Young Rachel has a terrifying secret: She can see evil spirits within others. After witnessing the brutal killing of her mother, she and her father move to a small town hoping to put the sha... Read allYoung Rachel has a terrifying secret: She can see evil spirits within others. After witnessing the brutal killing of her mother, she and her father move to a small town hoping to put the shattered pieces of their lives back together.Young Rachel has a terrifying secret: She can see evil spirits within others. After witnessing the brutal killing of her mother, she and her father move to a small town hoping to put the shattered pieces of their lives back together.
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Samantha Hanratty
- Michelle Lowe
- (as Sammi Hanratty)
Steve Fogelman
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- (as Emory Davis)
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Moving to a small town with her father, a young girl finds her ability to see spirits around one of the girls in town helpful in solving a spree of malicious accidents connected to her.
This one wasn't an overall terrible entry but there's some pretty big flaws present. The biggest, and easiest to to spot, is the complete and utter lack of discipline bestowed on the girl simply to let the film's plot get carried out. Though it is entirely possible for a young girl to act out as she does here, with her fascination in the morbid details of the accidents, the possessive nature towards everything and the attitude towards her friends and family being the biggest targets which are in no way plausible for most children to be accepted to act, and the fact that this particular tactic is used to demonstrate nearly all of the film's fear quotient is quite a huge miscalculation, if not in theory then certainly in the execution of how much time is spent on it. The other real problem with this one is the fact that there's never going to be a chance to let loose with the opportunities it could feature because the format and type of release won't allow it. Those two factors are the main elements which hold this one down, but there's some fine points as well. There's some really interesting parts abut the possession of the elder sibling being connected to the ghostly sighting, which themselves are quite chilling when they pop up, the different tormenting methods are definitely intriguing at times including a really harrowing scene trapped in a flaming garage and the finale is quite fun with a nice chase and a brutal confrontation scene. These help it along, but it's still not that great.
Rated Unrated/PG-13: Violence and children-in-jeopardy.
This one wasn't an overall terrible entry but there's some pretty big flaws present. The biggest, and easiest to to spot, is the complete and utter lack of discipline bestowed on the girl simply to let the film's plot get carried out. Though it is entirely possible for a young girl to act out as she does here, with her fascination in the morbid details of the accidents, the possessive nature towards everything and the attitude towards her friends and family being the biggest targets which are in no way plausible for most children to be accepted to act, and the fact that this particular tactic is used to demonstrate nearly all of the film's fear quotient is quite a huge miscalculation, if not in theory then certainly in the execution of how much time is spent on it. The other real problem with this one is the fact that there's never going to be a chance to let loose with the opportunities it could feature because the format and type of release won't allow it. Those two factors are the main elements which hold this one down, but there's some fine points as well. There's some really interesting parts abut the possession of the elder sibling being connected to the ghostly sighting, which themselves are quite chilling when they pop up, the different tormenting methods are definitely intriguing at times including a really harrowing scene trapped in a flaming garage and the finale is quite fun with a nice chase and a brutal confrontation scene. These help it along, but it's still not that great.
Rated Unrated/PG-13: Violence and children-in-jeopardy.
The plot is a bit of a mess. Characters make a lot of improbable moves from point A to point B. Questions are raised, but not fully answered. It's supposed to be a "Bad Seed" type film with a ghostly element.
The whole thing is weak. There are a few decent actors in it. (Even one that I recognize From "Catch and Release" with Jennifer Garner and Kevin Smith.) The lead/main little girl and the Main actress (Teacher) are quite good. That said, sadly, the whole plot screams low budget. The dialogue is cliche and the whole thing reminds me of a bad 80's or 90's movie. They had a good start with a pretty strong cast but no true skill in the writing and directing. The makeup for injuries and birth marks looks like it was drawn in with marker. I've never seen anything like it. I guess if you like Lifetime and you can look past the terrible makeup effects ... Have at it. There are some twists if you're not picky, however demented and far fetched they may be. I thought the whole thing tried too hard and failed miserably.
How anyone gave this movie a good rating. It got 4 1/2 stars on Amazon. Boring, tedious, bad acting, bad dialogue.
The story was not well done. The director and editor should immediately be shunned out of Hollywood. Low budget movie, I get it, but the product being put together was absolutely horrible!
Don't waste your time!
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Written by David Corman, Hanelle M. Culpepper, and Jeff Meier
Produced by Jeff Toyne
Performed by Cameron Grant and Melissa R. Kaplan
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- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m(95 min)
- Color
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- 1.85 : 1
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