Disturbing yet enthralling

Crappy film

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The scariest thing about this film, is that leave it open for a sequel.

The first ten minutes or so sets the story up nicely and and the backstory, but then you are left with about an hour of four girls waffling for no reason and nothing really related to the plot. The horror begins near the end showing what was depicted in the trailer. The horror scenes are taken from various other movies and lack any originality. There is no sense of fear for our heroines as nothing really makes them relate-able as there is no character development.The horror is solely reliant on jump scares and the poor acting of the college girls makes the scenes somewhat cringe worthy. Don't pay to see this movie. It simply is not worth it.

The opening scenes of the movie do a great job setting up a backstory. Brooding, filled with tense scenes and foreboding. Cut to present day. The rest of the movie is a cross between Scooby Doo and the Babysitters College Club.There's a lot of wandering around with wine glasses and pointless dialogue. It's like watching the shopping channel, but they aren't selling anything.There are fewer characters at the end of the movie so I assume things happen to them somewhere along the way. Whatever it is, it's quick, neat and tidy.Long story short, this film is slow and dull and I think they forgot it was supposed to be a horror movie.In closing, Andrew Divoff is too good for this film. He's the only thing about it worth remembering.

This movie started very slowly (but not a bad thing) focusing on an ex-Nazi in his new life in America with a wife and daughter with whom he is viciously strict with. this part of the story goes on so long that you think it's the main plot, but after he kills his daughter, and then gets killed by his wife, it jumps ahead to modern day, with a group of young women who are staying in the house for reasons not fully explained with a young girl called Irene. From there, it becomes a straightforward Ghost story type thing, with jump scares and running around the house and such. During such time, the women start digging up apparent clues about the ex-Nazi who used to own the house, including the odd gift of a Wehrmacht-looking Iron Cross amulet with inscriptions on it that is apparently of the occult or supernatural.before he died, the ex-Nazi received this as a gift apparently from another Nazi. He carves a hole in his basement workshop, hides the amulet in there, then seals it off with cement. Sporadically throughout the movie, this sealed off spot mysteriously bleeds the image of the iron cross onto it. throughout, Irene claims to be talking to Alice, the murdered daughter of the ex-Nazi, and at some point in the end, Alice's ghost appears to the main character Regan and leads her to where he hid her body. Regan then takes an amulet from her body and escapes with Irene. Then the movie abruptly ends. Nothing involving the seemingly supernatural Iron Cross thing ended up having anything to do with the plot, despite being the subject of a mid-story expo dump via online search. Very little was actually done with the plot elements introduced, as if the person directing or editing the film promptly forgot about everything they initially set up and just went for a quick end