Sent out to a secluded house, an architect and his wife asked to investigate a strange house that just landed in their possession only to believe that something is inside the house with them holding up their investigation and when their friends arrive to help it only proves their suspicions.
This wasn't too bad of a cheap quickie effort. One of the bright spots of this one is the fact that there's quite an impressive atmosphere surrounding the main castle where it all takes place. The large Gothic mansion is an incredibly chilling and creepy with the way it's laid out, full of the elaborate decorations and furniture that looks like the quintessential mansion that keeps the creatures lurking in the shadows well-hidden. With the long hallways, numerous corridors and secret doorways that keep this one full of the usual old-dark-house setups. When they start coming out to make their presence known, the film picks up nicely as the location atmosphere gives them an added feeling of creepiness which has plenty of creepy, chilling moments. The various investigations around the house that turn up nothing here are quite strong and the sequences inside the locked room where the ghosts were said to happen in provide some fun as well as the nice ending twist which is nicely integrated into the overall setup as it makes for a nice explanation to everything. While these here help hold it up, there are a few minor issues that do hold it up. The biggest problem that holds this one back is that for such a short film, barely squeaking by the hour-mark, this one has some utterly unneeded and just infuriating examples of padding that really doesn't need it. Not only is the phone-call to get the assignment played out in its entirety which really doesn't need to be several minutes long, but then the idea of bypassing the security office only to have to go all the way back when the place is locked up which they should've done at the start of their drive or the key tests on the locks that manage to hold this one up due to being wholly unnecessary for the film to go on. The series of scenes looking around the castle only to turn back around or do something else give this more time to waste, and with the short running time it's the biggest issue affecting this one as a whole.
Today's Rating/PG: Mild Violence.
This wasn't too bad of a cheap quickie effort. One of the bright spots of this one is the fact that there's quite an impressive atmosphere surrounding the main castle where it all takes place. The large Gothic mansion is an incredibly chilling and creepy with the way it's laid out, full of the elaborate decorations and furniture that looks like the quintessential mansion that keeps the creatures lurking in the shadows well-hidden. With the long hallways, numerous corridors and secret doorways that keep this one full of the usual old-dark-house setups. When they start coming out to make their presence known, the film picks up nicely as the location atmosphere gives them an added feeling of creepiness which has plenty of creepy, chilling moments. The various investigations around the house that turn up nothing here are quite strong and the sequences inside the locked room where the ghosts were said to happen in provide some fun as well as the nice ending twist which is nicely integrated into the overall setup as it makes for a nice explanation to everything. While these here help hold it up, there are a few minor issues that do hold it up. The biggest problem that holds this one back is that for such a short film, barely squeaking by the hour-mark, this one has some utterly unneeded and just infuriating examples of padding that really doesn't need it. Not only is the phone-call to get the assignment played out in its entirety which really doesn't need to be several minutes long, but then the idea of bypassing the security office only to have to go all the way back when the place is locked up which they should've done at the start of their drive or the key tests on the locks that manage to hold this one up due to being wholly unnecessary for the film to go on. The series of scenes looking around the castle only to turn back around or do something else give this more time to waste, and with the short running time it's the biggest issue affecting this one as a whole.
Today's Rating/PG: Mild Violence.