Fantastic!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Blistering performances.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Five people are credited to have written the screenplay. That's a major hint right there.It's always an ominous sign when a movie either has a bunch of editors or a large number of writers listed in the credits (or both: that's almost a sure-fire sign the movie stinks). I sort of picture 5 writers (and who knows if any of them is a "proper", competent writer) taking over the project from each other, one by one, each with his own intentions and different goals, creating a bigger and bigger mess as they tie the script into ever more knots.The first writer, fresh-faced and enthusiastic, perhaps wanted to do a thriller. When his third draft was judged "cheap garbage" by the producer, a second writer was hired (perhaps the director's nephew or something). He tried to turn the script into a supernatural horror film. After he got the boot, a third writer (sensing trouble) grudgingly accepted the job, and tried to unite the two genres, make them fit. A fourth writer was called in. At first he rejected the offer when he heard that Tom Sizemore was in it, but a 48-dollar increase in the offer changed his mind. He threw himself on the script, attempting to make heads and tails out of what the previous three had written. And then the fifth one hanged himself, leaving a suicide note that said "this script is beyond repair, and so is my life now".Absolutely nothing, and I mean literally nothing, makes sense in the story. Did I say "story"? Well, I have to call it something. I could call it "a five-man concoction of meaningless nothingness" but that's too long, so I'll just call it a "story" to keep things simple.Did lovely Gina Philips imagine Sizemore's violent outbursts or not? Is Sizemore evil or not? Why would her sister's ghost visit her as an adult (which she never was)? Why would she visit her just to die again, and in the same manner? Why would Gina smile after having realized that she'd imagined it all? Or had she? Who was the old man? Another ghost? Who the hell is he? Was the sheriff real? If so, then why did Gina tell him that there was nothing wrong? Why did she let her boyfriend leave her there alone, in the first place?And why does Gina almost always get these cheap B-movie roles? That's the most important question here. She is a competent actress, utterly gorgeous, likable – so what gives? I'll tell you what gives. She isn't a nepotistic offspring of some hotshot Hollywood actor, director or producer; neither her parents nor relatives work(ed) on TV or on Broadway, or own multi-billion-dollar corporations or have had number one hits on the pop charts. That's what it takes to become a tier-A actress (or actor) today. There is abundant evidence which proves without a shadow of a doubt that the careers of hopeless nepotistic young hopefuls are pushed with much more dedication and vehemence than those of "mere mortals" who dared to get their foot in the door of a business into which they weren't born by golden-spoon right. Hollywood royalty, my ass. No wonder American movies are on the slide.It's not a case of "the ending is ambiguous so it will make you think". Not in the slightest. There are no true hints, clues, or even clear-cut facts that can give you the slightest opportunity to make a clear picture of the story. There are too many loose ends and contradicting events. It's a 250-piece puzzle with 231 pieces missing. A right bloody mess, as the English would say.

It made absolutely no sense ... I rented it thinking looks like a good horror movie, but the further into the movie you get, the more things spread out and become less evident, I just finished watching it and I still have no recollection of what went on because the plot line is all over the place. I love horror, and I definitely would not recommend this movie. The actors, aren't all that convincing ... some of the scenes are disturbing but not in a scary sense, ... more in the sense that they shouldn't even be in the movie. While the movie has a twist at the end, that is every evident, you would think it would explain what the movie was really about like any other one does, but it just leaves you with that WTF in your head, and all you want do is wish you'd gone with a movie you'd already seen a million times.

That was a terrible, terrible movie. Absolutely dreadful. Isn't even worth my time discussing it. Don't watch it, heed the signs and don't waste an hour and half of your precious time like I did. Why was Karen like that? She's a complete moron. Again, awful. No character description. The information on the movie was that she went through some long suppressed horrible memory. What was it? The movie never even hinted at what it was! It went from one idea to another, absolutely ridiculously stupid. Nothing was explained. Nothing! I am so annoyed at the writers for wasting time and money turning out such a piece of rubbish. Thanks for nothing! And what was that little 5 seconds of film just before the credits rolled? What the hell was that? What was it supposed to be? IT WAS NOTHING! JUST SOMETHING TO BULK OUT THE TIME! Didn't explain anything at all relevant to the movie. The writers are complete half-wits! To Whoever Directed "Fear Itself:Dark Memories" or "Ring Around The Rosie": I COULD DIRECT BETTER THAN YOU! I mean come one! It's common sense that when filming a movie, 30 seconds of film is a lot of time to be looking at the one frame, like, oh, I don't know, 30 seconds of Karen waking up and just sitting in her bed. I'm 14 years old and I know this! To sum it all up: Stupid movie, A waste of time, money and resources, and not worthy to be a movie from this time.

Boy, I must be unlucky. Two banal and pointless movies in one week (the other being the extremely bland "Shallow Ground", for reference). I don't think I've been this unfortunate in a long time. Anyway, this is the story of a woman, Karen, who moves back into her grandparents' home after her grandmother dies, following her last wish. She's going to clean up the house and then sell it and marry her boyfriend. But what happens when she starts reliving the horrors of her past every single night?This seemed promising, like some kind of Amityville Horror or The Shining-type of film. It had the lead actress from Jeepers Creepers, which I thought was a good movie overall. So this one was a good pick for me, and I didn't bother reading reviews or anything. But ehh...it's just mediocre at best, if not flat out awful. The acting is...terrible...especially from Gina Phillips, who was nowhere near this horrible back in Jeepers Creepers. Maybe it's the awful script. She screams way too much and they go on for too long. The caretaker is meant to 'become increasingly more violent', but it's actually more like one moment he's nice and kind and the next moment he's a freak. Doesn't make much sense. By the end it's barely even a horror movie. I don't know what to call it, but this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.I did give it a point or two extra for making me think, because there is a really intriguing idea buried here if you look hard enough. The ending of the movie seemed trite and lame to me, until I thought about it, and realized exactly what the whole thing meant. All the hazy, distorted flashbacks, the missing pages in the kids' book, and Pierce's sexually violent nature...all of it leads up to something that I think I'll let you figure out yourself. This may be a terrible film, but I had to give it a point for making me think and realize the meaning behind some stuff here.