This movie is not half as bad as the early user ratings may suggest. It is also by no means perfect, and my rating is only a way to help the flick get at least into the safety zone of 4 plus stars, because to be honest I rarely give a anything under 4 a chance. This movie is all about the location, a Victorian house that "welcomes" its new occupants, a widower and his three kids, a very dysfunctional foursome, specially the teenage and the pre-teen daughters. The acting is decent, the camera work is very proficient and there are a couple of jump scare moments that make the film qualify as horror, as maestro Mario Bava used to say. Detractors may claim that the director ripped off the Amittyville Horror and The Shining in equal parts, I would say he lovingly paid homage to those horror staples. Plot holes aside, I enjoyed this old fashioned ghost story to a considerable extent.
Review of The Remains
