A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
Should have been left to molder in Miramax's vast vault of horror-movie stiffs.
– Chuck Wilson,
L.A. Weekly,
30 Dec 2004
rotten:
Plot elements exist for their own sake, with little or no explanation or relationship to each other, leaving the story such a muddle that it's hard to tell if the actors are doing their jobs.
– Matt Weitz,
Dallas Morning News,
30 Dec 2004
rotten:
We know that the house is haunted, because the family who's just moved in has to deal with the lights always flickering out. They should have called the movie The Fuse Box Horror.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Jan 2005
rotten:
A plodding, portentous horror thriller in which a spooky child figures prominently and people speak in hushed tones about sinister doings.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
26 Sep 2005
rotten:
As in most bad horror flicks, intimations of unspeakable evil are supposed to distract us from the yawning gaps in story logic and character motivation.