This communication block between the dead and the living is proving to be a huge headache for all involved. It seems that every haunted-house movie has at its core the problem that ghosts can't be bothered to just say what the bloody hell it is they actually want. Either they forgot all their English, or they become deaf-mute in the after-life. Well, then wave your hands or send messenger-pigeons or something! Do SOMETHING, frcrissakes. Do something before they make more of these dumb horror flicks!
Wasn't it Eddie Murphy who once said "if there's a ghost in the house, then GET THE F**K OUT!"
"No subsequent occupants have complained of any disturbing manifestations", it says in the epilogue. Well, sure they haven't, they weren't liars like the Campbells.
If this is based on true events then even Dickie Attenborough can claim to have made "Gandhi" with actual facts in mind. Even "The China Syndrome" isn't a fantasy tale anymore. Perhaps even "Eraserhead" and "War of the Worlds" are based on true events, and maybe "Bambi" is a Discovery Channel documentary about deer.
Virgina Madsen, even after everything she had experienced in the house with the ghosts, even after having admitted to herself that supernatural beings were at work, shouts at her son "what have you done with yourself?!" after she sees him covered in strange writing, from head to toe. Duh.
AHIC is seen-it-all-before haunted-house crap, with little to nothing of particular interest in the first half. Except of course the beautiful Amanda Screw. I mean Crew.
Check out Elias Koteas trying to warn the family (by phone, of course), and yet in spite of SIX family members living under that roof, there is no-one to hear his warning. What a convenient plot-device. Seconds later, Amanda Screw (sorry, I dood it again) gets attacked by the shower curtains (no bare breasts, give up all hope, ye), and she actually doesn't leave the house. What was it Eddie Murphy had said? Exactly. And how convenient that Donovan gets drunk and starts breaking up all the lights in the house.
Still, AHIC does have something going for it that 99 percent of all horror flicks don't have and that's Amanda Screw. I meant Crew. Amanda Crew. Unfortunately for her and for us, she isn't part of so-called "Hollywood royalty" (i.e. a talentless, ugly nepotist that needs special care, help, protection, promotion and a career-push from the studio heads, producers, and directors) so we won't be seeing her career sky-rocket any time soon. That is strictly reserved for the likes of Blake Lively, Mamie Gumner (daughter of Streep) and John Travolta's little daughter. And of course Will Smith's brat.
Wasn't it Eddie Murphy who once said "if there's a ghost in the house, then GET THE F**K OUT!"
"No subsequent occupants have complained of any disturbing manifestations", it says in the epilogue. Well, sure they haven't, they weren't liars like the Campbells.
If this is based on true events then even Dickie Attenborough can claim to have made "Gandhi" with actual facts in mind. Even "The China Syndrome" isn't a fantasy tale anymore. Perhaps even "Eraserhead" and "War of the Worlds" are based on true events, and maybe "Bambi" is a Discovery Channel documentary about deer.
Virgina Madsen, even after everything she had experienced in the house with the ghosts, even after having admitted to herself that supernatural beings were at work, shouts at her son "what have you done with yourself?!" after she sees him covered in strange writing, from head to toe. Duh.
AHIC is seen-it-all-before haunted-house crap, with little to nothing of particular interest in the first half. Except of course the beautiful Amanda Screw. I mean Crew.
Check out Elias Koteas trying to warn the family (by phone, of course), and yet in spite of SIX family members living under that roof, there is no-one to hear his warning. What a convenient plot-device. Seconds later, Amanda Screw (sorry, I dood it again) gets attacked by the shower curtains (no bare breasts, give up all hope, ye), and she actually doesn't leave the house. What was it Eddie Murphy had said? Exactly. And how convenient that Donovan gets drunk and starts breaking up all the lights in the house.
Still, AHIC does have something going for it that 99 percent of all horror flicks don't have and that's Amanda Screw. I meant Crew. Amanda Crew. Unfortunately for her and for us, she isn't part of so-called "Hollywood royalty" (i.e. a talentless, ugly nepotist that needs special care, help, protection, promotion and a career-push from the studio heads, producers, and directors) so we won't be seeing her career sky-rocket any time soon. That is strictly reserved for the likes of Blake Lively, Mamie Gumner (daughter of Streep) and John Travolta's little daughter. And of course Will Smith's brat.