The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

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

The film opens showing us unusual events/killings in a home with the family disappearing afterwards. It jumps 17 years later as Ms. Peterson (Pascale Hutton) and her mute son Adrian (Sunny Suljic) move into the place. Everyone thinks they are crazy and Angela (Jodelle Ferland) agrees to help tend for the child as things then happen. Some teens have been stowing their stash in the basement to create more victims.This is your basic haunted house killing people tale. Unlike other films, the opening sequence offers zero clues as to what is going on. What is the history? Why is this house haunted? Who were the former residence? Zip, nada, none. It isn't until the film is about to run the credits do you get the explanation, one that caught me off guard. It was unique. I liked it. It made something interesting of a mediocre production. I liked the film, but it appears most people didn't.Guide: No sex or nudity. I don't recall any swearing.

If you want to see a horror movie, and you have seen most of them, this one will entertain you, is not the best but is a decent horror flick with decent acting, it can keep you trying to understand what is going one, and you wont know until the end of the movie. Please do not see this movie with great expectations, but I can guarantee that if you are fan of horror movies this one will be decent for you.

Horrible acting all the way around. Joelle Ferland (Angela) was absolutely awful! The story started interesting, and then became more and more predictable. The slamming doors and loud noises was most of the "scary" moments. They could have more eerie creepy moments. but it just didn't happen. The first death scene looked like it was made in the 1980's. So, so, bad.Most of the progression of the movie didn't make sense. I know, it is supposed to be a scary movie, don't ask questions.Neal McDonough probably wished he would have passed on making this movie.

*************************************************************Disclaimer:I must offer to you a confession: I like movies that give me a fright. If the subject is horror I got to see more or I won't be contented all night.-from "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati"Fair warning: I'm biased in favor of movies involving horror, monsters, the supernatural, the paranormal, space aliens, zombies, science fiction, and those Twinkies of cinema, found footage. I would rather drink syrup of ipecac than watch "On Golden Pond", "Places in the Heart", or "Fried Green Tomatoes". I am not William Blake; what you will read here is the foamy-mouthed drivel of Clyde the Village Idiot.While it's true that 97% of the movies within the above listed genres are utter rubbish, I put on garbage bags and it's my hobby to dig through the stinking pile and find the few that are, miraculously, somehow redeemable. So be confident in the knowledge that only the highest quality cultural dreck will receive a positive review.*************************************************************"THE UNSPOKEN" I'd like to reiterate the standard warning: there are definite spoilers in this review. Much of the entire structure of the picture is dependent upon a twist ending and if you want to enjoy it unpolluted by my ramblings, stop reading now.Suppose you took it into your head that YOU were going to write a ghost story. And not only that, you were also determined that your ghost story was going to be completely original. Would you be able to do it? The difficulty is that countless thousands of ghost stories have been written at this point. Coming up with something completely original is going to be a very tall order.Genuinely original stories do happen occasionally. "The Others" was completely novel, to me at least. And since then there have been a few other ghost stories that I have come across using the same basic idea of a perspective shift that made "The Others" fairly unique for its time. But of course, THOSE follow-on's aren't original anymore, are they?"The Unspoken" also tries to be original within the genre of ghost stories. Unfortunately, it doesn't pull it off nearly as well as "The Others". Sadly, its punchline is a little too clever for itself by half.The movie comes out its corner at the starting bell swinging. From the very first frame it's pretty scary and supernatural "stuff", with smears and spatterings of blood sprinkled about for good measure, are happening all over the place. (Man, I would NOT want to have been that cop…) Initially I was very impressed and was rolling along quite well.In fact, everything was going great until the last 10 minutes or so of the movie. It becomes apparent that the supernatural activity is not because of ghosts, but rather because of one of the main characters in the movie. And then we're provided with an explanation of why it is that this character can engage in supernatural activity, and then we are told point blank that none of what has happened is because of ghosts.While I appreciate the effort in coming up with a plot twist that "rationally" explains ghost -like phenomena, this was so poorly done in this picture that it casts a pall on the other 90% of the movie, which was actually fairly scary if you managed to get into the "willing suspension of disbelief" requirement. So poorly done in fact, and so badly set up that it was as bad as a "and she woke up and it was all a dream" copout or a dei ex machina (as more than one was involved).They just pulled this "explanation" from some bodily orifice and threw it at us like a hand grenade. With jazz hands.When even the heroin objects to the pat explanation, the deus making the explanation just says, "oh, you just thought you saw such and such". Wow.In the light of the revelation at the end, if you think back over the movie (or, if you have no life, watch the movie again with foreknowledge of the explanation), there's actually several large plot holes similar to this one. One gets the sense that some desperate, pressured rewriting occurred close to the finish line and we're all hoping you won't notice. And jazz hands.Within the limitations of this genre and the intrinsic barriers to originality, this movie was actually doing pretty well until it got shot at the finish line. Maybe if you just pull the plug on your screen about 10 minutes from the end…?