When one day Jennifer (Anne McCaffery-French) spots a ghostly girl in her garden, she naturally panics, but when she reaches for her phone to call for help, the girl's gone. That evening, she spots more ghostly beings on her porch, and they slowly pour into her house. With her being much too nervous to dial the emergency number, she retreats to room after room, only armed with a knife, to avoid the ghostly beings. But who are they, why are they after her, and why seem all these ghosts stem from the photographs of loved ones hung up on the walls?

And these are questions that are not answered in The Darkened Cottage - which makes the film all the more powerful though, as it leaves room for one's own interpretation of what's actually going on, and one can't be blamed for coming up with quite a dark backstory, maybe much darker than writer/director Benji Wragg has ever intended. Meanwhile, on the more technical side of filmmaking, Wragg really excels, his direction is suspenseful, atmospherre-heavy and genre savvy, while Anne McCaffery-French gives a powerful and utterly relatable performance, making this a pretty cool short horror ride.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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