A rather mediocre ghost flick during the 1st hour, with many horror cliches and a weak atmosphere, plus the usual tidbits of nonsense, but then the drivel drastically increases, featuring one of the dumbest, most illogical, preposterous endings in years.
When Delroy finally arrives to investigate, the Math professor husband gets agitated when Delroy points out to a box as the source of the trouble. But why would he be so adamantly skeptical?
Firstly, his wife had mysteriously had an accident, lost her baby. Secondly, he had witnessed his sister-in-law (a hot actress) having sex with a student, in front of the house, at night, which seemed absurd, and then he saw and heard her when she entered the room - just a few seconds later, which is of course physically impossible. Didn't that raise any alarm-bells? "Hey, why is she shtooping my student outside like some deranged animal-ho? And how did she get up all the way here in a second? And how did she know I was watching her?" Nor is the student-shtooping scene explained at all. Nor did the husband ever even address this incident to his wife, or her sister. It just happened, period. On to the next scene... Unacceptably sloppy writing.
Thirdly, he had visions of her while having sex with his wife, which should have spooked the hell out of him.
How did all of this not strike him as "odd", or put in plainer English - as supernaturally horrifying? Which is why his anger at Delroy just doesn't make sense. This "forced skepticism" is a cliche plot-device, and in this case defies logic, to boot.
I'm also mystified by the sister's reaction upon having her head SMASHED against the mirror - by her mirror image self. She just leaves the house without telling her sister what happened! Duh. Generally speaking, her role in this movie is very poorly conceived. Her behavior is confusing, her sudden pregnancy is confusing, and her brief appearance in the "grand finale" is baffling too. Was that her or a ghost impersonator?
After he gets stabbed with a very long, large knife by his possessed wife, he drops to the floor - then somehow gets up again and fights ghosts as if he had just a minor bruise. What the hell... Then he unknowingly stabs his wife and starts apologizing to her - despite the fact she'd stabbed him minutes earlier. What the...
The guy doing prison time for murder of his own wife... How did he know that the only solution was to kill his wife? I mean, he was there to tell the new couple about this - but who was it that told him, when he was in trouble with these ghosts? Was it just a wild guess? "Hey, perhaps if I kill my wife ALL the demons will disappear? Oh why not, it's worth a try, I got nothing to lose... except my lovely wife and my freedom."
And that final scene... was that cretinous or what. Despite suffering a deep stab wound, the protagonist not only managed to successfully fight of ghosts and kill his demonic wife - but he then ACTUALLY somehow managed to send the evil box - all neatly wrapped up as a gift - to his sister-in-law! Why was he so angry with her? She didn't know the box had an evil spirit when she gave it to them. More importantly, how the hell did he manage to crawl all the way to the post office (which presumably isn't even open at night...?) with the wound that he had, and how did he get the evil box wrapped up nicely AND hand it over to the post-office clerk - while all bloodied and in agony? Did this clerk not notice all of his guts and blood spilling over the post-office floor?
The very notion of him going to the post office all bloody and badly wounded is in itself comedy material...
It is a hilarious bit of inane writing, this gift. Not to mention that his sister-in-law was SUDDENLY heavily pregnant, which is also a rather absurd plot-device inserted at a whim, rather stupidly. It's supposed to be a revenge twist, but it makes zero sense on all fronts. Doesn't make sense that he wanted revenge, doesn't make sense how he sent the box all bloody and in pain, and it doesn't make sense WHY he'd want to unleash this evil onto the world. Totally inept script.
The premise is better than the typical haunted house film, but the way it was handled could have been far better, for example fix lots of the nonsense in the script - which would admittedly have meant a major re-write, maybe a total overhaul of the story. And hire a better male lead, because the guy playing the husband is pretty bad and miscast.
When Delroy finally arrives to investigate, the Math professor husband gets agitated when Delroy points out to a box as the source of the trouble. But why would he be so adamantly skeptical?
Firstly, his wife had mysteriously had an accident, lost her baby. Secondly, he had witnessed his sister-in-law (a hot actress) having sex with a student, in front of the house, at night, which seemed absurd, and then he saw and heard her when she entered the room - just a few seconds later, which is of course physically impossible. Didn't that raise any alarm-bells? "Hey, why is she shtooping my student outside like some deranged animal-ho? And how did she get up all the way here in a second? And how did she know I was watching her?" Nor is the student-shtooping scene explained at all. Nor did the husband ever even address this incident to his wife, or her sister. It just happened, period. On to the next scene... Unacceptably sloppy writing.
Thirdly, he had visions of her while having sex with his wife, which should have spooked the hell out of him.
How did all of this not strike him as "odd", or put in plainer English - as supernaturally horrifying? Which is why his anger at Delroy just doesn't make sense. This "forced skepticism" is a cliche plot-device, and in this case defies logic, to boot.
I'm also mystified by the sister's reaction upon having her head SMASHED against the mirror - by her mirror image self. She just leaves the house without telling her sister what happened! Duh. Generally speaking, her role in this movie is very poorly conceived. Her behavior is confusing, her sudden pregnancy is confusing, and her brief appearance in the "grand finale" is baffling too. Was that her or a ghost impersonator?
After he gets stabbed with a very long, large knife by his possessed wife, he drops to the floor - then somehow gets up again and fights ghosts as if he had just a minor bruise. What the hell... Then he unknowingly stabs his wife and starts apologizing to her - despite the fact she'd stabbed him minutes earlier. What the...
The guy doing prison time for murder of his own wife... How did he know that the only solution was to kill his wife? I mean, he was there to tell the new couple about this - but who was it that told him, when he was in trouble with these ghosts? Was it just a wild guess? "Hey, perhaps if I kill my wife ALL the demons will disappear? Oh why not, it's worth a try, I got nothing to lose... except my lovely wife and my freedom."
And that final scene... was that cretinous or what. Despite suffering a deep stab wound, the protagonist not only managed to successfully fight of ghosts and kill his demonic wife - but he then ACTUALLY somehow managed to send the evil box - all neatly wrapped up as a gift - to his sister-in-law! Why was he so angry with her? She didn't know the box had an evil spirit when she gave it to them. More importantly, how the hell did he manage to crawl all the way to the post office (which presumably isn't even open at night...?) with the wound that he had, and how did he get the evil box wrapped up nicely AND hand it over to the post-office clerk - while all bloodied and in agony? Did this clerk not notice all of his guts and blood spilling over the post-office floor?
The very notion of him going to the post office all bloody and badly wounded is in itself comedy material...
It is a hilarious bit of inane writing, this gift. Not to mention that his sister-in-law was SUDDENLY heavily pregnant, which is also a rather absurd plot-device inserted at a whim, rather stupidly. It's supposed to be a revenge twist, but it makes zero sense on all fronts. Doesn't make sense that he wanted revenge, doesn't make sense how he sent the box all bloody and in pain, and it doesn't make sense WHY he'd want to unleash this evil onto the world. Totally inept script.
The premise is better than the typical haunted house film, but the way it was handled could have been far better, for example fix lots of the nonsense in the script - which would admittedly have meant a major re-write, maybe a total overhaul of the story. And hire a better male lead, because the guy playing the husband is pretty bad and miscast.