Always on the verge of going broke, and constantly overworked, nurse Juliet (Natalie Denise Sperl) accepts a job as caregiver for one night with an old lady, Lillian (Eileen Dietz), with a heart condition who lives bang in the middle of nowhere. But Lillian proves to be a very lovely woman, and needs next to no special care, just a bit of company. So it should be a simple job - only it isn't, as Lillian's house soon gives Juliet the creeps: She's hearing weird noises as if somebody other than her and Lillian were in the house, sees things, has nightmares - and eventually she finds a secret room in the basement which contains the corpses of several caregivers in various states of decay ...

In an at first unrelated story, detective Eckhart (Joe Cornet) is looking for his mother, who disappeared from the face of the earth 26 years ago. And as all traditional detective work has dug up very little, he consults with a parapsychologist (Eric Roberts), and between them, they come up with an urban legend that might actually have more than just a grain of truth ...

A piece of horror that hardly sets a foot wrong, with all the suspense and jump scares in all the right places, a directorial effort that's heavy on atmosphere - also helped by many fittingly macabre props - and very stringent storytelling, even if the film's two plotlines meet only towards the finale. And of course, a first rate cast also helps bring this to life rather beautifully, making this one cool piece of genre cinema.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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