The greatest movie ever made..!

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If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This film has a decent plot but it falls apart because of all the film's other faults. We all love a good spooky tale about witches and ghosts. It's a shame the acting is so bad. It's almost painful to watch and I wasn't able to even finish the film. I actually got to the climactic ending and turned it off. There are too many "dramatic" pauses where the camera is focused on the blank faces of the characters. There is no sense of "realness" at all--not in the dialogue, not in the actions. Obviously no one can say anything about realism in regards to how to live in a situation with hauntings like this, but there is either a lack of expression or exaggerated over-expression by the actors. The actress who plays the daughter looks older than the one who plays the mother. Characters who are petulant (and I'm not talking about the kid) with absurd lines makes this cringe-worthy. The scares are boring and trite.Save your time, see another movie.

An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years, and restless spirits haunt the house where the bodies of the children have been buried. A family move into their new home, and begin to uncover the terrible truth behind The Tree and the murdered children.......Trying to deal with family problems in a horror movie predominantly is either a huge boost for a movie, or a killer blow to the narrative.Some really work, and the most notable example of this most recently is The Babadook, because you really felt that the boy was in danger, and the mother was becoming increasingly unhinged.Here, it's a different story. Mums hardly there, the daughter plays the predominant pillar in the families foundation, and the son who is seeing the apparitions and becoming more and more dependant on his sister.But is this just a metaphor for how a family reacts when the 'man of the house' is in a comatose state in hospital. Is the film a subliminal narrative on impending loss, and feeling helpless when a loved one is ill.It could well be, but when the makers of the film haven't the first idea of how to present someone in a coma, you start to lose interest........rapidly.From my professional experience, someone in a comatose state, especially that age, should at least be attached to some monitoring equipment, and have access to some suction, oxygen, and have safety barriers attached to the bed. Here it looks like the husband is a lazy beggar.The acting is below par, and the casting is very questionable, why on earth is the mother just four years older than her daughter in real life? They even look the same age on screen, it's pretty unbelievable stuff.The film ends with a weird seance and a mad woman who cries blood. Whoop-De-Doo..So all in all its a pretty disastrous effort from the writer director. It's probably feasible to say that he's based this on some life changing event, and while the metaphorical elements are pretty sound, it's the poor casting and acting that ruin the film.

I've seen some bad movies...really. I've seen bad movies with a good sized budget, but also good low budget movies. But this one fell way too short, and did so quickly. Nevermind the campfire opening, I didn't care much for it. But come on, if someone told me not to believe 'what they say about isobelle' when I buy a house, I would ask a bit more than 'what' and be done. Also, despite the overkill of turning around - peekabo or not - scenes, there were some that were just horrible. Mere gasps at times if it were real warranted a substantial scream at the very least. And what's up with the dad? He's in a coma, but by all appearances he looks like he just could've been sleeping. Totally unconvincing. Not to mention the oh so charming nurse telling the daughter not to get her hopes up. I'd slap her she had said that to me.Anyways, what do I know? I'm not a director. But I think this guy wasn't exactly either.

I read a couple of reviews, but I agree now with another reviewer that they MUST somehow be connected to the film! They MUST have seen another film, as this is not the film I watched! It's like a bad episode of Eastenders.Unbelievable story line - Husband is in a coma, so wife decides buy a huge 600 year old farm to keep her pigs,(Really?) where there is a tree in the woods (By the way, the tree looked about 60 years old, if it was 600+ years old, I am sure it would have been bigger and wider. By the way, it is NOT the tree on the cover of the DVD. They couldn't even be bothered to find a decent tree, which is supposed to be central to the whole story!)Very short "Kids around the campfire telling stories" set up to let you know that a "Wronged woman" was hanged for witchcraft, and has been killing kids ever since.. Then, usual run of the mill sequences of 'turn round and there's either no one there, or there is someone there, wide eyed, covered with blood and their tongues hanging out, with sudden loud crashing sound to try and make you jump...' Insidious did it so much better and creepier...Very poor acting, poor clichéd supposed scary moments (I was expecting a cat to suddenly jump out and squeal ala Stephen King) it is that bad.Dad in a coma, can presumably "see" what is going on at home, and after how many months, suddenly starts talking, saying, "Jake... House...Jake..." so the daughter calls the nurse, who tells her, "They can tend to speak quite a bit at this stage, but it's just a reaction from the nerves..." Really? Coma patients suddenly start talking, and it's a sign that they're getting WORSE!!?? I got this hoping to watch it with the family, we really tried to like it and watch it, but we turned it off after 45 minutes as it was THAT bad!