Haunt (2014)

I agree with some of the reviewers > stre3xHCCH and > gavin6942 they both had good points, The movie start really interesting in terms of narrative and plot, mysterious enough and creepy, but end in mediocrity.All starts when a family the Morello's moves in a classic beautiful house for a new beginning, full of hope with a great business prospective, but that short lived as all ends in tragedy, when their young children all teens and their father die of violent death in the house (and out)..Anyway time has passed and a new family whose the house is sold to, moves in and they also have three teen children, one of them Evan, the quiet one, meets this young girl in the woods one night going for a walk, named Sam, whose we don't really know or learn anything about her, except she has a violent father and until the end, we get just a glimpse, and not enough to satisfy the building up of the beginning of the story, imho. When Evan and Sam found this radio and mess about, then things begin to manifest,and not in a good way, which would usually mean that the fun begins, but I felt like it was just rushed and not give the time to explore why and what had really happened in the house to all those people. I thought when both go to see Mrs Morello to know more, that the best was to come, but unfortunately that was not the case,the rest of the actors were not exploited enough to add intrigue, suspense, for more possibilities to produce a more entertaining and satisfying story. Even Mrs Morello who practically got away with murder (God knows for how long, we only figure that out towards the end) when we understand who Sam really is, could have been done more with her, and her family as a back story, but they failed. This movie had a lot of potential,and very good actors, and it really frustrates me, to see people behind the camera to blow it, why i gave 4stars. What a shame, all i can say...

For me the opening part of the movie was very decent ,there one decent creepy moments , near the start but as the movies goes onI was so bored by it , it never got me back into it , when those scare scenes , were so bad, I actually thought they were funny.I thing seeing the ghost so early on and far to many times , that the creepy factor away, Far too boring and far to scarce less and a very predicable endingThe acting was really good , the egoist effects were not at all, I kind of find the ghost a bit cute lol , i am kidding I am going to give 4/10

i gave this a 6 outta ten because the cinematography was good, the ghost was actually pretty terrifying as movie spirits go, jacki weaver was eerie and haunting in her role as the vengeful wife and grieving mother, and the ending kinda surprised me. i jumped quite a few times, and the scares weren't as predictable as other movies. of course it wasn't on the same par as sixth sense, exorcist, insidious, or the shining ; the script was kind of bad, the teenage love story was gag-inducing, and there wasn't any character development to speak of, but all in all not a bad little ghost story at all. especially for netflix. a bit clichéd but wholly entertaining would be my description.

Are they sure this script was meant for a horror movie? To me is seemed like a lost soap script. All I saw was some obnoxious kid, being nervous. Becoming (over) emotional of every conversation he has. Licking his lips all the time. (Annoying) etc ..And the whole horror aspect of this movie, well there wasn't any. I have no idea what kind of audience this movie is aimed at. And I must confess that I didn't bother to watch the whole thing, because It was so bland and boring. Its better to avoid this movie, and watch something that has more balls. Poor acting, no suspense, no scares. Why was this movie even made??