A couple moves into a new apartment. As things seem normal at first, things turn for the worst as the couple begin uncovering sinister, past secrets. In all honesty, this horror film had heart. You get moments where you could just see how much heart, and emphasis the filmmakers attempted with this one, but in the wrong, non-unique direction.. First off, this film's plots been seen plenty of times before. We've seen the clichéd gimmick of a fresh, new couple moving into a place that's haunted. And with that, they'll see things, have nightmares, the mother will start acting weird, stuff like that. It's a highly clichéd plot gimmick we see plenty of times, this film just being another clone of said gimmick. The characters given, as well, are clichéd. With the plot, we've seen the gimmick of the innocent mother with her bad side when invoked, and the father of which uncovers all of this, only to anger the spirits in the house more. Even the background characters are clichéd. The doctor that suspects nothing, and remains completely oblivious, the neighbors that know something's up, and of course the older lady that knows it all, but says nothing, we've seen it all before. I honestly, however, didn't mind the acting. That's probably the only plus, as these clichéd characters have been horribly acted before, these actors held their grip, and executed well enough. For more negatives, however. The pacing in this film was just bad. I honestly didn't like it at all, the entire thing kicks off with one huge bang, then leaves the audience hanging with an extremely long, extremely boring flick. We get a few scares, here and there, but they don't pay off, and we're left sitting there wanting more, but in the end, it doesn't pay off until the very end, making the entire hour, and twenty or so minutes seem completely pointless. We barely get any paranormal activity, really. As said before, we get a scare, or glimpse here, and there. But does it resolve anything? No. It's pretty much just throwing the paranormal activity around pointlessly. And once again, as said before, nothing of said content is resolved, or unleashed until the final 10 minutes or so, Finally, the technical work was fine for what it was. This low budget film had some nice shots, and fine music audio. The only huge flaw in the topic is the audio of speech. There are points to where the audio completely cut off to pure silence as the characters transitioned from sound, to sound, which got slightly annoying as the issue wasn't fixed.
In conclusion. This film honestly disappoints. We're given a clichéd story, and clichéd characters. Nothing really happens for an entire hour, and we're left hanging, wanting more. Although the filmmakers had heart, and put their emphasis into this, they did it in a bad way, wasting their time on a highly clichéd plot, and storyline. For a low-budget film, it's technical work had flaws, but for the most part wasn't bad. But in the end.. sadly, this missed the mark. Nothing new was here, this entire movie, when looked into, was just another copy. I honestly wouldn't recommend this one. You'd just be seeing the same paranormal activity gimmick of which you've all probably seen beforehand.
