As a young girl, Nora Zehetner was involved in a car wreck (that she sorta causes) which horribly scarred her older sister, who eventually dies from her severe wounds . But does she really die? Zehetner (who spent several years in a mental hospital due to the trauma) starts to question this when she begins to have horrible visions of her sister’s last moments leading up to her supposed death. But when she leaves the mental hospital and ventures home, she finds friends and family are a little cagey about digging up the past, so to speak. This includes a young girl(Jessica Amlee) Zehetner strikes up a big sister-like friendship with (still with me?), who is convinced dark things lurk in her house.
Yes, folks, it’s ‘Psychic girl righting the wrongs of a dead person’ time, with this directorial debut by Dagen Merril. And although I’m not a fan of flashback-heavy, nightmare-vision films, I gotta say this one was pretty interesting. It does some creative narrative things (having a mentally-unbalanced heroine helps too), and Zehetner is a striking beauty (Think a more ethereal Rachel Bilson), and is much better than she was in “Brick”. Best of all, it was really, really, weird.
It’s a shame then, that the story and big reveal are entirely transparent from the beginning. But overall, this is like “Boogeyman”, only it doesn’t suck! (Both films have funerals that bring characters back to home towns, there’s a creepy house and a kid, etc. Very similar, different result).
OVERALL SUMMARY
A very respectable little B-movie that was much better than it initially sounded to me. I could do without any more horror films that begin with a vehicular crash, though.
