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Perhaps the creators of this silly spooker believed that, because it concerns an apparition-plagued abode, motivations behind the characters' behavior could be as difficult to grasp as the ghost herself! The actions and situations are often so preposterous that the audience may well be constantly wondering why anyone would do or say what the script just indicated! The open-minded can certainly accept the possibility of a haunting spirit, but one which possesses the living and turns blue eyes brown? Maybe it's about all one can expect from a T-A Thiessen peekaboo boobfest where even the spec shows pec! As always, Tim Matheson gives it the old college try in this half-jelled melodrama that totally wastes his talent and the viewer's time. Please--somebody secretly bury this flick!

This is a pretty fair ghost/possession movie, but a lot of it is ridiculous. How can Tiffani be possessed if she's talking to the ghost. Isn't it supposed to be inside her ? The scares are tame and the story moves along like a run-down car. It stalls, moves, jumps and stalls again. Don't get me wrong, there's almost a decent ghost movie here, but Tiffani's figure seems to take center stage as the camera focuses on her chest, and a nice sight it is, and the viewer is teased with nearly topless scenes, but the plot seems to forget this is supposed to be a movie about a ghost seeking the truth behind her murder. Melinda Culea is all but absent from most of the movie as Tiffani's mother as if the "Shriek If You Know" star was stingy with the screen time and Tim Matheson appears in the movie as the father of the dead girl haunting Tiffani but his scenes are a bit disjointed from the script. This murder mystery as a ghost story does have some chilling moments, but there's no psychological build-up or atmosphere to set the pace. Tiffani instead spends some time dragging down the script by pursuing the boyfriend of the girl's ghost, but then if most girls suddenly looked like Tiffani, I assume they'd be doing the same thing. On the whole, I guess I rate this movie a five for a promising script that quickly gets lost and has to be patched together in the edit room.

There's nothing particularly outstanding here, but most of the elements of a decent spooky movie are in place. Everyone seems well cast and the production values are alright.

My problem with this movie is mostly the ending, because (keeping it vague to avoid spoilage) the villain leaves before finishing his/her "job" at the crucial moment, then behaves as though the job was finished. That made no sense. Plus the way the villain got taken care of was pretty random and silly. :-)

I would have liked to have seen a bit more relationship development between some of the characters, especially (again keeping it vague) the two reunited family members. That was a key moment and it could have stood a bit more fleshing out emotionally, IMO. I thought that scene ended just a little too soon.

Ultimately, I gave this one a 5 because the general quality of the filmmaking was reasonable (which I think had a lot to do with the solid acting ability of the leads), but I sorta wanted to give it a 4 because it just didn't impress me at all, and with the cast they had, I think it could have been a bit better with a smarter script.

BTW, there's no real gore or anything, aside from a (hallucinated and non-gory) severing of a limb. It's more of a spooky story than a horror film.

I can't believe that so many people have said in their review that this is one of the best movies they have seen lately.I can't see why they would say that,i didn't think it was anything special. I must admit that Tiffani-Amber Thiessen is really sexy,but other from that it was an ordinary TV thriller.It has a little suspense,some half way scary moments and average acting. I have seen a lot of other TV movies that is much more entertaining,scary and have better acting.I have to admit that the story had potential for a good horror movie,but it didn't fright me.

i can't believe that there are positive comments about this movie. I live in Australia and the only reason i saw it today was because i stayed home from school and decided i would see what crap movie they had playing as a day time movie. Everyone here knows that they show bad films during the day when it's school because the only people who watch them, are people who will stay tuned for Passions. Buried Secrets was one of the worst films i've ever seen. Next to it, i'd probably put duets, shakespeare in love and americas sweethearts or whatever it was called. To me, Buried Secrets was just as scary as those films. How could anyone call that movie scary?? they should have played up the fact an insane ghost lived in the house but nah it's cool, we won't do that. I mean, what the hell? That horse thing. Yeah that was ... i was watching that and i remember quite clearly thinking 'this reminds me of a kids movie when the badie has to die". We use to have a program here called 'Skippy' about a kangaroo who use to like bash the baddies or whatever. I can't recall exactly, but i believe it was similar to this. Hhahahahhaa yes, i agree with how amusing it was when the ghost got angry for no reason. Speaking of the ghost, how come she didn't get pissed off the other girl was doing her guy?

Personally , i just wish that woman (yes i'm no good with names in bad movies) who was the shrink, had kept giving them all pills. then it would have been funny.

oh did anyone else think that when that.. oh dear, im goin to do it again, that other girl.. the main one, when she screamed 'GIVE ME MY PILLS', that it was an act?? i didn't realise that was her acting angry. classic

this movie was terrible. if i were with my friends being funny, i would rate it eleven out of ten but because you dont know me, i'll be serious and say 2 out of ten.