Director: Armand Weston
Writers: Daria Price, Armand Weston
Composers: Jack Malken, George Kim Scholes
Starring: Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, Michael David Lally, John Carradine, Bill Rowley, David Tabor, Patrick Farrelly
More info: IMDb
Tagline: There was only one thing more terrifying than leaving the house... staying in it.
Plot: A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn't know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes.
My rating: 6/10
Will I watch it again? No.
There's a good story here but it's in the execution that brings it down. Ghost whores seeking revenge from the grave? Are you kidding me? How did this not work better? Robin Groves does a great job in the lead as Lauren, the woman tormented by all kinds of things. She's got a lot to do, acting wise, and she sells it. She's even better when you consider it's her first feature and second credit. Some of the other actors are lacking in skill but it's not enough to hurt the flick all that much. It's a good looking film. The direction and cinematography are pretty good. It's the pacing that almost kills it. It's 103 minutes and it should be much shorter. There's A LOT of back story told in flashback. It is necessary to some degree to do it this way because the audience needs to be kept in the dark until the right moment just as Lauren was. The music often feels cheap. That could've been a budgetary restraint but the more likely reason is that this is the only score Scholes composed and the last of two that Malken wrote. So there's that. There is a little bit of welcome nudity and there's at least one terrific and grisly death. I guess I'm disappointed this wasn't better than it was.
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