When the credits rolled on this movie my wife succinctly summed it up with, "Well that was a waste of time."
This movie drowns itself in silence. The main character is on screen for almost the entire movie, but he has fewer lines than his mother who is dead before the movie starts. As a result, there is a lot happening on screen that has almost no audio to go with it - it's a shame I paid so much for my sound system. The movie's attempt to be artsy more than communicative results in what winds up being a very dull experience that simply does not get across the horror that we are supposed to be feeling.
Aaron Poole plays the grown son of the woman who owned the house that this movie takes place in. He is generally somber and seems annoyed at the sheer volume of religious artifacts in the house. I don't blame him, as they aren't even all from the same religion, so it's kind of hard to understand what the mother even believed in, as she speaks of the importance of faith quite often, but she does not mention what that faith is in.
This is the story of a son coming to his mother's house to take inventory and decide what he will and will not keep. While he's doing this, we get his mother's voice as a constant narrator and nit-picker as if she is nagging him from the beyond about what she always wished for him and how he let her down. There is also something evil in the house or around the house, and he struggles to figure out what it is, what it wants, and how to get away from it.
The issue with the dark and evil something that is stalking him is that the audience never really gets scared of it. This is supposed to be a scary movie, and there just isn't anything to be scared of. There is little more than just staring at a guy who twitches at every noise, imagines terror where there isn't any, and is generally unlikable.
The only really interesting thing about this whole movie was the camerawork. There are long segments of unbroken, smooth camera movement where the camera moves from one floor to the next, doubles back, and follows our hero. It's impressive work, that's for darn sure.
Story was miserable
Acting was tolerable
Dialogue was virtually non-existent
Camerawork was spectacular
Direction was not good
0.5/5