The casting is the only thing that sets this haunted house film apart…otherwise, it’s a watered down version of the genre. Amanda Seyfried and James Norton play a couple who moves into the aforementioned house in upstate New York. Their relationship was already tenuous, but the stress of a new location only amplifies their discord. Add a few COMPLETELY NON-SCARY moments of a ghostly apparition and thing start to deteriorate…in their relationship and the film’s trajectory. The personal drama that develops holds mild interest, primarily because the duo has the chops, but the attempt to elevate this into a suspense film fails miserably. 
(1 / 5)
