If you're familiar with Rocky Soraya's work, then you've already got a good idea of what to expect here. Two orphaned sisters learn they have an inheritance a lot more mysterious than they originally thought, and they must hold tight to their bond to prevent supernatural mishap. They get a lot of help from a friendly psychic and also from the older sister's boyfriend. All the familiar tropes are here, but this movie is neither as fast-moving as a 3rd Eye picture nor as campy as a Doll picture, and it suffers for trying to meet both styles in the middle.
The beginning is fantastic, though. It starts with a cold open that gives you just a little taste of the stakes, then moves on to the rest of the story, laying out clues just slowly enough to keep you invested. The most suspenseful scenes are the ones in the first act, with some well developed jump scares. The best part of a Rocky Soraya picture, where a neophyte psychic gets a sudden and unwelcome crash course in seeing dead people, is also included here and it's great. There are a number of twists that keep the plot from ever growing stale, and one humdinger of an ending. However, a lot of runtime could have been shaved off the middle act. Some of the confrontations later in the movie ran way longer than they needed to for suspense or character developing purposes.
Other than being about twenty minutes too long, this is a pretty decent 'in for the night' flick to scratch your goofy horror movie itch.
The beginning is fantastic, though. It starts with a cold open that gives you just a little taste of the stakes, then moves on to the rest of the story, laying out clues just slowly enough to keep you invested. The most suspenseful scenes are the ones in the first act, with some well developed jump scares. The best part of a Rocky Soraya picture, where a neophyte psychic gets a sudden and unwelcome crash course in seeing dead people, is also included here and it's great. There are a number of twists that keep the plot from ever growing stale, and one humdinger of an ending. However, a lot of runtime could have been shaved off the middle act. Some of the confrontations later in the movie ran way longer than they needed to for suspense or character developing purposes.
Other than being about twenty minutes too long, this is a pretty decent 'in for the night' flick to scratch your goofy horror movie itch.
