This movie is nowhere near as bad as people say it is, sure it is far from perfect, but there are some good moments, most of the actors try real hard, and for some this is their big screen debut, and the amazing Dee Wallace Stone has a small role in the film. Unfortunately, too small. The premise of the film is nothing new - a bunch of teenagers spend the evening in a haunted hospital, this time on Halloween. Naturally, something awful happened there several years ago, and the films heroine Jessie (played fairly decent by Trish Coren) has some psychic powers which give her clues as to what is going on.
The teens all have some depth to them and each have their own typical teenage problems going on. Nicole Rayburn is good as Marie the slutty girl, while Josh Holt as geeky Freddy and Jilon Ghai as Kevin the jock are both hotties. The authority figures in the film certainly follow typical horror convention of being bumbling and useless, Dig Wayne plays a former movie star turned cop, Arlo Ray Baines, while Michael Samluk is Allan, the son of Baines' former partner. Rachel Melun however is useless as Meg, Allan's sister whom he is looking for.
Dee Wallace Stone brings her usual class to this film that she brings to every other film she is in. Unfortunately she doesn't get a lot to do - being dead and all. The special effects are pretty good, the music is OK, but generally the film is not very scary, which is a problem that plagues a lot of "horror" these days. So overall, this is not a bad watch, I was going to give it a 6, but Dee Wallace Stone makes it worthy of a 7.
The teens all have some depth to them and each have their own typical teenage problems going on. Nicole Rayburn is good as Marie the slutty girl, while Josh Holt as geeky Freddy and Jilon Ghai as Kevin the jock are both hotties. The authority figures in the film certainly follow typical horror convention of being bumbling and useless, Dig Wayne plays a former movie star turned cop, Arlo Ray Baines, while Michael Samluk is Allan, the son of Baines' former partner. Rachel Melun however is useless as Meg, Allan's sister whom he is looking for.
Dee Wallace Stone brings her usual class to this film that she brings to every other film she is in. Unfortunately she doesn't get a lot to do - being dead and all. The special effects are pretty good, the music is OK, but generally the film is not very scary, which is a problem that plagues a lot of "horror" these days. So overall, this is not a bad watch, I was going to give it a 6, but Dee Wallace Stone makes it worthy of a 7.