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Five students, put together by a students' housing office that might
not even exist, move into an old and creepy but very cheap house, and they
are pretty much the typical bunch of students to share a house in a horror
film: Jenny (Billie Piper), the goodie-two-shoes sensitive (and aeven a
tad psychic) girl, Nick (Sam Troughton), the good honest guy (who of
course eventually becomes Jenny's boyfrioend), Tom (Luke Mably), the bad
guy, who has all sorts of drugs and is of course also a dealer - and on
the verge of insanity -, Adele (Emma Catherwood), his bitchy girlfriend,
and tzhen there's of course Tina (Alsou), the etheric girl who will
eventually turn out to be a ghost.
Soon, Tom's stash of drugs is gone, and everybody is freaking out, then
Jenny is overcome by guilt and weird dreams because she has killed her
mother (it was euthanasia, she just couldn't see her mom suffering
anymore), then Nick tells her he was responsible for the death of his
brother (back when they were kids, it was an accident), then Adele
disappears, and it will later turn out that Tom has killed her, and
eventually, Jenny, Nick and Tom learn from Tina what is really going on:
Tina is actually the spirit of a woman who lived here a hundred years
or so ago. She was in love with a black man (Chiké Okonkwo) and he loved
her back ... but in Victorian England, their relationship had no future
and a mob of racists soon ganged up to kill them. So Tina asked her lover
to shoot her instead, as she is rather killed by the one she loves than a
gang of thugs. Tina's lover then planned to shoot himself, but the mob was
quicker to break into the house, and they brutally killed him. Since then,
his spirit is restless, but now he can be freed ... if one of the three -
who are all killers to some extent - takes his place as the house's
resident spirit.
I won't give away the ending, but guess who gets away and who dies in
the end to become the new spirit, the goodie-two-shoes girl, the modest
guy or the big bad drugdealer ...
A formulaic plot and an extremely muddled screenplay do not really help
this film to unfold, for the most time the viewer just has the feeling of
seeing only loosely (if at all) connected scenes, with many of the
subplots ultimately add up to nothing. An uninventive directorial job does
little to get the film going, either. At least Billie Piper's central
performance is quite ok, jast a shame she didn't have a better character
to portray.
For some reason (budgetary, most probably), this film was shot in
Romania even though most of the leads and key crewmembers are British and
the film is supposed to be set in Great Britain.
By the way, when this film came out, Billie Piper was playing the lead
in the immensely popular revived TV-series Doctor
Who, while Sam Troughton is actually the grandson of Patrick
Troughton, the actor who played Doctor Who in the 1960's (click
here) ... now do I beginning to see a pattern here about whom
this film was really made for ?
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