Karin gets to inherit the old family estate when her grandmother passes away. She drives out to the house together with her boyfriend in order to clear out the property and then to sell it. Soon she meets a somewhat weird guy named Pierce who tends the horses, and fixes things around the estate. Later on Karin starts seeing things, and after her boyfriend leaves, things only gets worse. There seems to be many dark secrets that surrounds the house, and they also seem to be connected to her childhood when she was there as a kid. Meanwhile, Pierce is getting even more weird and Karin starts to feel really uncomfortable around him. Does he have something to do with all the strange things that are going on?
Someone who had written comments about this movie on IMDB, wrote that the flick sucked donkey balls, and that pretty much sums it up. Now, I never thought this movie would be great plus that the title sounded kinda stupid as well, but I figured I should give it a shot since I actually liked Gina Philips in Jeepers Creepers. She's not great here, but at the same time she's far from being bad as well, it's just that the story is so darn stupid and you can't help but to wonder what the hell the writers were thinking when they wrote this piece of junk.
Even if I was never expecting this movie to be very good, I still found it to be somewhat interesting in the beginning. Well, at least I tried to get into it even though it didn't felt very fresh or creative. While the shitty story unfolds, the viewer has to sit through a higher number of extremely cheap scares. But this movie didn't actually have one scary thing in it really, although it succeeded with being so bad that it was actually scary, so I'll have to give it some credit for that.
The way this movie was set up felt too standard and unoriginal. Karin inherits the family estate and goes there with her boyfriend to clean it up to later sell it. Apparently there's something wrong with the house, and Karin starts seeing things and suffer from 'horrible' nightmares. Her boyfriend leaves and she's left alone there, but fortunatly or actually unfortunatly, a weird care-taker named Pierce lives around there too. But something is not right with the guy, and Karin is soon to find out.
So many cheap scares in the beginning, and then it switches between being a supernatural flick and more of a terror type of flick. None of these things work though, and I would label it a shitty thriller that has no thrills or scares that are the least bit effective. The longer the movie goes, the worse it gets, and the last 15 minutes or so I actually felt quite ashamed for everyone who was involved in the making of this crapfest.
The acting is somewhat ok from Gina Philips and from Jenny Mollen who plays Gina's sister. Not that I had a lot of respect for Tom Sizemore before watching this mess, but now I have none. This guy can't play a psychopath for shit, and it was almost frightening to see such a terrible and unbelivable performance. I don't even remember the score, but considering that I didn't remember it, it couldn't have been that great.
Another new 'horror' flick that was complete crap...not really a big surprise. I can't think of one good reason why you would wanna put yourself through watching this. It really has nothing to offer, and the story was so bad that I feel a bit sick when thinking about it. Stay far away from this, it's so not worth the time.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Fear Itself
MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Rubi Zack
WRITING CREDITS: Alex Barder, Jim Suthers
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Gina Philips, Tom Sizemore, Jenny Mollen
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 87 min
RATING: 1/10
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