Ever since Natalie (Ashley Greene) had an affair and her husband Kevin (Shawn Ashmore) found out, their relationship's a bit on the rocky side - but they both honestly want to make it work again, so when their couple therapist (Juliette Jeffers) suggests a move, they both jump the chance, and soon find the perfect place - well, almost perfect, a brutal murder happened there, but then again many houses have a dark history. Problem is, Natalie soon thinks the house is haunted, as she hears footsteps, doors that she has closed open, the temperature mysteriously goes down and the like. Thing is, Kevin experiences none of all that, and when Natalie is chased through the house by a person unknown and she can only save herself by jumping out of the window into her pool, police can find no signs of an intruder in any of the place's security cameras, which puts her sanity into question. The audience of course knows she's not insane as Natalie's sister Dani (Britt Baron), when stopping by to feed the dog was brutally attacked and dragged off into the inner workings of the house, but with the attacker sending Natalie a text from Dani's phone, she doesn't even know her sister might have gone missing. Things get worse though when Natalie and Kevin's dog dies under mysterious circumstances, and then Kevin shows symptoms of slowly being poisoned - with Natalie being the logical prime suspect. Things really come to a head when a stranger (Josiah Lipscomb) shows up on Natalie's doorstep and tries to rape her, an attack she can ward off though - and then it turns out the stranger only answered an ad that suggested Natalie wanted to live out her rape fantasies, an ad the police manages to trace back to Robert (Alexander Bedria), the very guy who sold Natalie and Kevin the house, and now wants to buy it back at a much lower price, which is why he terrorized them. Case solved it seems. Only then while Kevin's out, Natalie is brutally attacked by a brute (Jason Liles), who has apparently been living in a secret room in the house all along and could move through it unseen via secret ducts leading to pretty much every room ...

... and this finale is where the film falls apart a little, as so far it has been a rather interesting psychothriller with tension and suspense in all the right places, and while not very high on the originality scale, it was put together rather well, with believable characters played by an able cast - and for the finale it goes into full-blown horror, which of course is generally speaking not necessarily a bad thing, but the film has so far built up a very complex mystery and now gives it up for a monster movie ending, with the said "monster" seeming in no way fit to play all those elaborate tricks on the protagonists, and his motives remaining in the unclear till the end. And this is a pity, because otherwise the film's actually well worth a watch for above reasons.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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