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Pretty Good

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I came to watch this film with low expectations as it was on the horror channel. I was pleasantly surprised. I thought the directing was excellent. Especially like the facing person perspective when the mother was exhausted and going through the motions of collecting clothes for washing. I have watched numerous mainstream horror films that have been well received but severely lacking in plot, suspense, acting skill and sense. This film ticked all the boxes for me. The acting was strong and the way their lives and relationship slowly degraded through lack of sleep and what was happening to them was really well done. As a mother of 4 kids I can fully understand the effects of sleep deprivation. I liked the way the couple were left doubting themselves and didn't know whether they were hallucinating from lack of sleep or whether the things they were seeing were real. I did find it unbelievable that they would have stuck so stubbornly to staying in the house. I think realistically they would have given up on the house long before. And where were family or friends in all that time? And why did they insist on keeping the child in his own room? Realistically they would have brought him in with them long before too. The ending surprised me and I thought it was a good twist. Although there were some believability issues I still gave this film a 9 as after, becoming jaded by so many over hyped under quality horror films, I felt this was really effective, very suspenseful and really well directed. I would definitely recommend it.

first of I need to tip my hat to the director of the movie, for wanting and actually putting that many styles into one movie. Not to mention having done that in a short period and a small budget I imagine. But....here's my 2 cents on the movie, it starts of slow, first half hour is kind of dragging but then it's starts to pick up pace... parents of a newborn get insomniac, cause of a building site next to their newly found piece of paradise and a baby who deprives them from their well-deserved sleep...I consider myself a movie-aficionado and horror has a special place in my heart, go check out my list if you are in doubt. Anyways, about the movie, first of I found the actors to play their parts very well, both husband and wife and the psycho/ghost or whatever she was...so there's that. But why even after all the madness of sleep deprivation would you go to a local supermarket and hire an unknown girl on the spot to babysit. Mind you this is your newborn baby ? Seems kind of far-fetched but hey, I can live with that...Then you wake up missing an entire day and your baby has been completely neglected, unchanged diaper and all that. Then why don't you go after the baby sitter or just plain go back to the place of her employment and ask about what the hell has happened ?Still I can live with that, but then this women/ghost appears in your random pictures and your dreams/hallucinations and still you want to stay in that same house,..... And why the hell don't these people as a couple talk about the things happening to them, their dreams, their premonitions, their fears, like a healthy and young couple would do ? OK, and then we have a body in the house for a couple of days and no one even smells but a whiff a something decaying. The ghost/psycho disappears from under a bed like David Copperfield....? She also manages to enter a locked house enter a kitchen cabinet unseen to appear out of it and then disappear into thin air.... This woman ah....never mind. So many mistakes when it really had me going in the beginning, and then it seemed to me like the director changed his mind and went from supernatural/ghostly apparition to psycho/lunatic crazy woman...the build up was really slow and well executed and the end was a mere disappointment of plot holes...It's worth a watch, but a 6.6 rating, no way

Hi, I watched this film last night with friends. Altho' I now feel I should get better friends. The actual film it self makes time stand still, which only prolongs the agony of watching it.The basic premise of the movie has been done so many times before, and much better as well. A couple move from the city to county to bring up a baby, and spooky things begin to happen. Mainly involving a woman, who looks like a Fat version of the scary girl in The Ring. But with out the ability to be scary. Who pops up every now and then to try and remind viewer that it is meant to be a horror film. Add the back drop of a sleepless couple, who are struggling to cope with the lack of sleep due to the baby and the noisy workmen building a house in the next field!!.(they should of watched this film, they would've dropped off with in minutes) And you start to think is it really happening or is it just hallucinations due to sleep depravity. Then you realise it is really happening, your watching the worst film ever!!!.

If you don't watch a lot of horror/thriller flicks you may get a bit of novelty out of this film but for a fan of the genre it's going to be predictable. This is just one of those movies that didn't have enough of a horror element to really frighten, instead they relied on a really not so scary ghost lady who is just chilling in cupboards and watching people through windows. Also I was just a little confused and frustrated at times with the decisions our stressed out couple, some simple decision making skills would have lead to me to actually believe this could be a plausible story, but alas, it seems this movie should have ended with the baby in the dryer and really scored some gore points. if this was targeted to any type of audience it would most likely be used as a tool to scare young couples into using birth control, I suppose teen mom on MTV could be a little more scary then this movie, that show is real.