After
an old friend's funeral from a car
accident, former school friends named
Harris McKay (Dominic Purcell), Kira
Hayden (Josie Maran) and Sid Vance
(Marcus Thomas) decides to break into a
cemetary after dark , and after Sid
reads a mysterious incantation he finds
on one of the nearby tombstones, they
dance on the graves. Soon, the three of
them find themselves haunted by three
different ghosts whose graves they
desecrated and have had criminal records
on their own during their lifetime.
They hear sounds from their homes and
evil spirits attacking as well. Then,
they run to a couple of paranormal
investigator's named Vincent Cochet
(Tchéky Karyo) and his assistant Frances
Culpepper (Megahn Perry) to try to help
them break the curse they imposed on
themselves before the next full moon when
they will be killed by the ghosts wrath.
However, they may be on their way on
their death bed when they try to put a
stop to this in which this angers the
spirits and will try to slay them one by
one or turn them into evil spirits as
well.
Many good camera takes on Sid Vance standing on a tombstone
reading a poem out loud about raising the
dead along with good camera angle shots
on the other tombstones which makes you
wonder if corpses will rise up. There's
many other shots on him along
with Harris McKay and Kira Hayden partying out at the tombstones.
We spot a good shot looking down on Allison Mitchell calling to her boyfriend
walking up some stairs as well as a
camera shot going up the stairs.
We spot a good shot on her walking by a hall in her house with a
sudden ring of the phone which is a good
jumping moment.
There's a good scene between Allison losing her temper and acting crazy
towards Harris about her
thinking he's having an affair and
getting demanding with him.
We have a nice camera shot going up the
stairs and into the bedroom focusing on
both Allison and Harris sleeping
in their bed's making it look haunting
like along with a good shot on him
waking up and then looking around the
downstairs living room holding a sharp
device for protection. There's also a
nice shot on Allison getting up
and turning her head looking at a
haunted woman kneeling down and then
trying to attack her.
There's good shots on Harris and Allison looking around a
house with flashlights and noticing the
writings on the wall as well as a jumping
moment with her by a doorway
and then Kira catching her by
surprise looking ghostly.
We spot a nice angle shot with Allison standing in a hospital hallway with a
corpse in a sheet rising up and grabbing
her arm.
There's a good moment with Kira crying and screaming on the other side of
the door in the hospital room along with a nurse trying to talk to her and then
some great shots on her flying around and
hitting walls with wind blowing at her.
There's many good camera takes looking
down on the all the main characters
digging up some graves and looking into
the coffins with corpses revealed.
There are many jumping moments showing
the corpses moving as well as attacking.
There's also a good shot on Kira trapped in a coffin screaming trying to
get out while we see the coffin sinking
into the mud.
There's some nice separate scene's with
both Allison and Kira in a room smoking a cigarette and trying
to help one another out and being
emotional along with Sid and Harris in another room having a heated dispute
and getting physical with one another.
These scene's looked very well done.
We spot a great close up shot on Kira lying on the ground with a sharp piece of
glass caught in her throat.
There's a nice moment with Frances Culpepper crying after everyone finds
some corpses heads she kept and then Allison walking up to her and slapping her which
looked quite strong.
We have a nice shot on Kira with her back turned playing a piano
while Harris tries to approach
her from behind and a nice close up shot
on Kira slowly turning around
and then showing a ghoulish face and then
attacking with her arms springing out.
There's a nice camera shot looking up at
her holding an axe like she's floating.
There's great chasing scene's with the main characters and Kira attacking as well as
a good fight sequence between her and Harris showing great suspenseful shots.
There's a nice car getaway scene with Harris and Allison with good effects on
a ghost chasing them.
Bottom line is that I enjoy haunted house type
of films and had to tell you this one
really seems like a tribute to those old
school types like Poltergeist
but with killings and more jumps too. It had nice haunting effects to the story
ogf the film as that's what we need for a
type like this one. I enjoyed the
beginning of the film when someone reads
a poem of the dead which made me wonder
if the dead will rise or not which keeps
you glued to the set to see what happens. It's about time we had an original flick
like this than so many bloody remakes we
spot nowadays and if only more people had
creative ideas making films like this one
would really make horror films worth
checking out again. For anyone who enjoys hauntings but are
very fictional and more so than Poltergeist
as well as liking ghoulish make up on
evil spirits attacking then you
definetely want to check this one out in
which you won't be disappointed.
The acting is quite good as
lead actor Dominic Purcall (Harris McKay) showed
a great masculine attitude and looked
great with his big guy type of role and a
nice seriousness to his part and
expressing a nice calmness to what he
portrayed too.
Josie Maran (Kira Hayden) brought a nice tense
attitude after encountering a haunting
and being put in a ward as well as
showing a good calmness when she helps
everyone try to put a stop to the
haunting in which she shows nice
versatality to her role. She was great
playing a haunting figure too acting
violent and aggressive.
Clare Kramer (Allison Mitchell) was another one who
does well acting aggressive and cries
well on set as well as getting physical
when she needed to. She showed a nice
adventureous part throughout the whole
story in which I give her a thumbs up to
her performance like the forst two I
mentioned. She does well screaming
in hysterics when an arm grabs her.
Marcus Thomas (Sid Vance) does his role well as
a goofball type who has an attitude when
he wants to as well as not taking stuff
seriously plus he had the right look for
this too.
Megahn Perry (Frances Culpepper) knows her stuff as a
paranormal investigator showing a perfect
seriousness to her part in the film
making her role very believeable too. She
does well crying on set when needed to
which is a plus with her performance.
There's a blanket over a
corpse with blood starting to flow from
the covers
We spot an open slit throat
An axe is impaled in someone's head
There's some good rumbling
music along with many banging sounds.
There's also nice low orchestral music
which sounded very strong and well done.
We hear the odd grumbling music with
sounds very terrorising like all done by Joseph
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