***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** This movie is about a Haunted House.Not truly original but they get that part right.But what about the characters,the continuity and the motivation? Will South,the star is truly not interesting at all.The only information we get about him is that he used to have affairs.That is impressive,if you are totaly unaware of society.Maura South,the owner of this fine house becomes interesting only when she becomes possesed.She is way too jealous,her husband treating another woman politely is hardly evidence they have an affair,and comes out too shallow.The daughter,Aubrey South,is just annoying.she is a ten year-old.A doll chating to her should impress her.Ten-year olds are usualy smarter than that.Nothing that happens around her seems to effect her.Is she retarded?Father Seamus seems to have studied the occult for some time but he still believes in uncontinional love.Romantic but it has nothing to do with real life or any kind of religion/mythologie. Now some details that kept me interested but where never explained.The house was built on 1863.The couple who built it burried their daughter,Colleen,alive in the celar.They perfomed black magic.The husband's hands were cut off on 1882 by an angry mob and he died during the same year.His wife suicided on 1883.Her husband put a curse in his house.One of his hands struggled a woman in the house.The family maintained ownership of the house till 1996.The house was haunted by Colleen and a number of unnamed others.If those details was explained properly it could have been a nice movie.Why did they have to burrie their own daughter?When did they do that?Why did the man placed a curse in his own house and not in his enemies.How could his wife survive him by a year if the mob was against both of them?Who was the struggled woman?The family continued to live there for a 113 years but the house goes nuts when Maura South arrives.Why?What is Colleen's part in all this? And by the way that they perfomed black magic hardly tells us anything about them and their motivation.So many plot holes ruin this movie.
Review of House of the Damned
