Gather a few youngsters, preferably with mutual issues, in some dilapidated cottage in a forest in the middle of nowhere, and you should have the perfect start for a nice old-fashioned horror-flick. Unfortunately in this case they didn't deliver. Apart from the mediocre acting, the biggest problem is the story (or the lack there-of). It's an incoherent hotchpotch of a curse, demons, witchcraft, zombies and ghosts, it's way too much and as a result it adds up to nothing in particular. The only thing reasonably entertaining is the gore, which, I grant them that, is pretty well done.
There's hardly any narrative, the friends enter the cottage and wham, the curse or evil power or whatever it is that apparently hovers in the house, hits the new occupants one by one and turns them into murderous demons. Vague innuendo's of transgressions in the past suggest that each gets what he or she deserves. Well, I can confirm that indeed none of them is in any way sympathetic, including main character Emily who is some sort of pristine saint and therefore even more annoying than the rest. The invalid brother is a strange addition to the story, at first it's suggested that he's some sort of intermediary or channel to the demonic powers, but in the rest of the movie this doesn't get any follow-up.
Anyway, pretty disappointing to put it mildly.
There's hardly any narrative, the friends enter the cottage and wham, the curse or evil power or whatever it is that apparently hovers in the house, hits the new occupants one by one and turns them into murderous demons. Vague innuendo's of transgressions in the past suggest that each gets what he or she deserves. Well, I can confirm that indeed none of them is in any way sympathetic, including main character Emily who is some sort of pristine saint and therefore even more annoying than the rest. The invalid brother is a strange addition to the story, at first it's suggested that he's some sort of intermediary or channel to the demonic powers, but in the rest of the movie this doesn't get any follow-up.
Anyway, pretty disappointing to put it mildly.