Snipples007 Review of The New Daughter

The New Daughter (2009)

Started out great and then they said "mound walker."

[1/10 · 6 February 2011]

My advice is to watch the first half of this movie and then shut off your TV and make up the rest of the movie in your mind. Honestly, nothing you can think off; regardless of how ridiculous it may be could be worse than the real ending of this movie. The movie looked promising, Kevin Costner, kids that weren't terrible actors, a beautiful location, genuine suspense, and then... well... my theory is that the director just got up and left and some guy off the street came in and finished the movie from about halfway through. Costner is a single father in the movie with two kids. They move to a new house, and the kids resent him for it (original right? ...right?). Costner's daughter in the movie (Louisa) begins going crazy and spending all of her time laying on a giant mound of dirt in the woods. Literally like half of the movie is her just laying on a mound of dirt, but we'll get into that later. A lot of "creepy" things begin happening, figures and shadows appearing on the screen and the daughter keeps slowly turning psychotic. The mound is the culprit behind all of the strange goings-ons, and apparently also some sort of Indian burial ground. Costner begins seeing these figures, they're known as mound walkers, to apparently everyone in the movie who isn't Keven Costner. But seeing his daughter coming home late at night covered in dirt and small twigs causes Costner; like any good dad would do, to go to a "mound walker expert." I didn't make that up by the way, the guy actually calls himself that in the movie. Apparently there is a University somewhere completely dedicated to large mounds of dirt in the woods, where interested students can become experts in the study of mounds and other mound related things, such as dirt, psychosis caused by laying on mounds, as well as angry Indian mound spirits. Anything this movie had going for it pretty much got buried under a mound at this point, where it then probably proceeded to become a mound walker. And the ending, I won't ruin the ending, but apparently a mound the size of a swimming pool has an underground network of tunnels that rivals the size of the sewage system of Washington D.C. Unless you have some sort of dirt covered Indian zombie fetish or are some kind of masochist, don't watch this movie.