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Teenaged Cassie (Angelina Danielle Cama) has never fully come over the death of her mother, and that her dad Lucas (Harley Wallen) has since married another woman, Sarah (Kaiti Wallen), hasn't helped things one bit. And since Cassie has recently some (rather harmless) run-ins with the law, Lucas has decided to move away from the big city and into the country, the small town where he spent his childhood and youth, to start afresh - much to Cassie's dismay, as she's not really into country life as it is, and spotty cellphone reception doesn't make the deal any sweeter. One night at the local pub though, she meets two youngsters very roughly her age, Anna (Jamie Bernadette) and Tucker (Mason Heidger), and she somehow persuades them to check out the supposedly haunted house in town, the McKinley place. However when they do they find out the house is deemed creepy for a cause, for one they find tapes of many missing girls being raped and killed, for other they also find the decomposed body of grandma McKinley. What's worse though, while still inside the house, the owners, May (Erika Hoveland) and Clete (Jimmy Doom) return, and even though our heroes manage to make a clean getaway, they are spotted by May and Clete, who will go to some length to find them out. And since they can't let anyone know their nasty secret, they're of course more than eager to kill our heroes ...

Veteran Mel Novak plays the local bartender.

A pretty cool piece of horror, especially since despite its subject matter it doesn't just fall back on slasher, backwoods or survival horror tropes but is strong on character building, and that's just as interested (and as interesting) in its backstory as in its scenes of suspense and violence. And even if the film does by no means hold back when it comes to gruesomeness, director Harley Wallen proves just as handy with the quiet scenes, and doesn't shy away from subtlety. And a strong ensemble cast that keeps things grounded of course also helps to make this a pretty cool genre effort.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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