After years of living in a crowded apartment a family moves into a nice spacious house. The trouble is the house contains the spirit of a bitter young woman who was murdered and she begins to take steps to remove the family from the world of the living.
Creepy haunted house, is for most of its running time a solid haunted house thriller. It is film that tweaks the genre in interesting ways to give us some scary moments that aren’t just the result of sudden loud noises. This is one of the few recent haunted house films that I can really recommend.
That said the you really needs to know that the film foes have some tonal problems. The grandmother of the family is supposed to have dementia and for a good part of the film she’s played for laughs. It runs counter to the mood of the rest of the film. It’s a move that results in a WTF moment in the latter part of the film as she steps up to be the one spearheading the fight against the ghost. It, like the rest of the humor, diminishes what is an otherwise tense film. While it doesn’t kill the film it takes what should have been a truly great film and makes it just a good one.
Regardless of my quibbles this film is ultimately a lot of fun.
Recommended
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