Before I start, I thought I swore off horror movies, but apparently I can't help myself.
Picture it: My children are asleep, I turn all of the lights off, my husband is in his dungeon and I am curled up on the couch with a blanket waiting for the movie to start. I keep the volume down really low because I don't want to wake the children and if they come out to pee *cough make excuses cough* I don't want them to realize I have a scary movie on.
Well, even with the volume on low (not hearing the scary music) I was still scared silly. You know a horror movie is good when you have to ask your husband to sleep with you regardless of his wretched snoring just to feel safe. I fell asleep maybe a total of two to three hours that night and that wasn't consecutively. I had the bathroom light on and the television on all night.
Anyways, it starts out with a family that moves into a new house... a fresh start.. from what initially we'll never know. At first everything seems like it will be a good, fresh start but then things start going a little crazy. The mother finding books thrown on the floor, footsteps coming from the attic, hearing static and then men's voices on her baby monitor for her daughter's room and then actually seeing these things. That second night in the house, the father just comes home from work and two of the three kids are hanging out with daddy while the older, more curious one is sitting on the top step with his lantern, when suddenly the attic door opens... by itself! Are you scared yet? He ventures up the stairs and, of course, being a dark and mysterious attic he's a little nervous. As he tries to turn on the light, which you have to climb a rusty and breaking ladder and as he does this he falls from the fifth or sixth rung onto his back. He seems to be alright and starts looking around, then you hear a bit of creepy music and then he screams. His parents run up after him and comfort him. The next scene shows the dad checking out the little boys drawings saying he's not invincible and to get some sleep.
The next day the little boy doesn't wake up when nudged by his dad to get ready for school. They take him to the hospital and find out there's NOTHING physically wrong with him and they can't call it a coma. Everything leading up to this moment and a few things after one would think that it's just a haunted house which gives them reason enough to move. In their new house, you see the mom and mother-in-law talking and the mother trying to convince herself that she isn't crazy. The mother-in-law, played by Barbara Hershey, assures her that she isn't crazy and then curiously comments on a family picture. They move the boy in with them to take care of him and weird things start happening... again... a little boy running and giggling through the house and scaring the bejesus out of the mother. She's fed up, so with the push from her mother-in-law she calls this lady who specializes in these types of occurrences.. whatever they maybe.
Turns out her son is a astral projector and he has passed the gene to his son. Between the specialist and the mother they were able to keep the boy from astral projecting and subdue his memories. Now, they intend to do this with the grandson but he's so far into the Further that the dad has to astral project to go get him. In all this there is this terrible demon looking thing trying to take over the boys physical body. The dad does retrieve the boy and the boy does make it back to his body. A picture is worth a 1,000 words and I'll leave it at that.
Although, some parts of it were unbelievable, it still kept true to being a horror movie in that it scares the pants off you. I would definitely suggest this movie if you are in the mood to be scared..
If not, check out my next post, it will have you laughing.
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