Frighteningly bad and unoriginal "horror" film that is about as tedious a 90 minutes as you could imagine spending.
Take off on the monster house genre that offers nothing new in the way of story or characters, is shot very darkly, and uses 1 set yet is supposed to be a castle of sorts.
A horror writer rents out a supposed haunted house in the middle of nowhere to write her next novel and then is not heard from for almost a year. After an arbitrary time missing, a gaggle of her friends, relatives and associates all go looking for her at exactly the same time. We've got the brooding brother, the sleazy agent and his lovelorn assistant, the white trash ex husband and his white trash new bride and just for kicks the daughter of the owner house, who is also missing, comes along for the ride.
Once they all get inside they find the novelist who tells them that the house will never let them leave because...yadda yadda, backstory, yadda yadda.
Anyway, all the characters are so wooden and ridiculous, there isn't a way anyone could care about any of them. The giant house is reduced to same living room and hallways in every scene, making the film feel claustrophobic to watch but not in any spooky way, just in an annoying way.
Shit happens that aint scarey, subplots develop between people in seconds, bad and overwrought acting and writing ensue. Add in some very cheesy drama and it's just a total mess.
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