House of Bones (2010 TV Movie) User Reviews

Ghost hunters find more than they bargained for

[MartianOctocretr5 · 5/10 · 18 January 2010]

Most of this has been done before; this movie is just another sorting of the various elements. Psychic character, house is an entity itself, paranormal investigators, TV show fantasy gets a dose of what it's been mocking, one character turns into a nutty zombie, etc. But still, this SyFy original really isn't bad.

Events are paced well, and things are revealed in a measured logical manner that maintains interest and fuels the action. The film is just graphic enough to be scary, without the over the top gratuitous blood bath gross-out approach. Somebody actually took time to develop a plot, and the acting is surprisingly decent. Characters are intentionally written as obnoxious, so you never really care gets eliminated. This allows the film to focus more on some innovative ways to knock people off. And you'll need a score card to keep track of the body count.

Not groundbreaking; it's fast-food horror, and you'll likely forget about the movie within two hours or so after viewing. But it's still entertaining enough to get a thumbs up.

not quite as bad as the average SyFy movie, which isn't saying much

[Quinoa1984 · 4/10 · 16 January 2010]

House of Bones isn't terrible. That might usually be the best thing I can say about it, but the writers and director do deserve a little credit. The direction is competent and the cinematography is actually impressive for a straight-to-TV feature (meaning it doesn't look like crap or made rushed or hyper-stylized or tinted or whatever). And the script has a few legitimately funny lines of dialog between the baffled crew members on the reality TV show about to film an episode on a haunted-HUNGRY house (must emphasize hungry as it needs to eat). And when it comes time to get to the gore and effects and some of the usual lot of chincy CGI, it's not half-bad. And yet the script does falter when it comes time to really get to internal logic, or to explaining things in exposition, or bringing on the stereotypical a-hole TV show host who comes in the last third of the movie for a lot of useless yammering until his fate comes clear.

But most depressing of all is seeing Charisma Carpenter here. She's never been a Shakespearean thespian or anything, but she's never needed to be. Featured on Buffy and Angel for many of their best seasons, she's always been a solid actress for those and other shows. But here she looks kind of bored and almost a little sad to be having the dubious pleasure of starring in a straight-to-SyFy channel movie. While her fate isn't quite as abysmal as her co-stars on those shows (Amber Benson in Gryphon and Nicholas Brendon in Fire Serpent), it's no great shakes for her character, a psychic and ghost-talker of some kind who should be leaving the house the moment she starts coughing up blood, but stays on for the good (or bad) of those around her in this crazy old piece of property. She doesn't bring the film down, but it's hard for her to do anything to bring up the standard at best so-so at worst stupid and laughable piece of horror drek before her.

A hauntingly lack of thrills and chills...

[paul_haakonsen · 3/10 · 6 February 2010]

I had no particular expectations to the this movie, as it is a Syfy product.

The story seems like rip-off of "House of Haunted Hill" with some elements from "The Ring" tossed in just for good measure, sort of having potential and was not too shabby. The first two-thirds of the movie were rather interesting. Despite it being labelled as a horror movie, there was very little to scare you in it. No major shocks or frights. Nothing creepy or crawly, just some mediocre stuff going on, and with mediocre CGI to accompany it. Then throughout the last third of the movie it all fell to the ground in a most horrible way. The movie became so boring and stupid during the last third part.

As for the cast? Well, some did an alright job, except for Corin Nemec. Wow, he was so miscast for this role. He looked like he was struggling with insects inside his pants. It was physically embarrassing to watch his horrendous performance in this movie. He is semi-alright in comedies, but here it was terrible to behold his acting (or rather, lack thereof).

The setting of the movie was adequate. Would have worked better, if the house had a more dark and brooding appearance and feel to it.

The movie is lukewarm entertainment at best. Don't except any thrills or chills from it though. And don't expect a showcase of awesome effects. If the movie experience was to be compared to a roller-coaster ride, then the ride would have no steep hill or facedown plunges, just a plain leveled ride with little amusement. For a ghost movie, this was pretty lame. It pales in comparison to movies like "13 Ghosts", "House of Haunted Hill", "The Haunting" and such.

The most scared I was, was for concern if I would be able to keep myself awake through the entire movie.

This was just bad.... hysterically bad

[PhantomAgony · 8 February 2010]

Anyone who watches original SyFy movies knows what to expect - a low budget look, often a poor script and average to below average acting. No one watches an original SyFy film for greatness - it's just shameless entertainment even if that entertainment comes from how bad the movie is and House of Bones is really no different.

Basically, there is a TV show called Sinister Sites that goes to 'haunted' houses, films footage and airs what they found. Up till the latest house, the crew hadn't really found anything spooky and relied on smoke machines and tactics (always shoot at night) to drum up the scare factor and manipulate their nothing findings into an interesting show for viewers to watch. The ratings for the show were dropping so the show added a pretty female psychic to the team (Charisma Carpenter) and also decided that rather than stand behind a green screen and host the show, the host would actually go to the locations as well.

Of course THIS house is not like the others - it's actually HAUNTED. People have been disappearing from this home for years (slaves, prostitutes, children) with the last person disappearing in 1950 - a little boy. Things immediately seem odd when the refrigerator is stocked full of fresh produce/food despite no one having lived there in decades. Then, as the crew starts setting up cameras and devices throughout the house, one of the members goes MISSING! .. and let the craziness ensue.

I can not stress enough that if you want to watch this movie because you like Charisma Carpenter, just pass. Although she's technically in most of the movie, she doesn't really do anything. She's the psychic and she spends most of the movie randomly walking through the house getting vibes saying nothing other than the occasional 'We need to leave' or 'This house is evil' and is often randomly in the background of scenes where the other actors are actually doing/saying things. She doesn't have much dialogue and doesn't really actually do anything beyond what an extra could handle till maybe the last twenty minutes and even then, it's nothing to write home about. Just a fair warning seeing as how this movie is horrible. No reason to watch for her since it's not worth it - trust me.

In the end, you have a stupid, cheaply made SyFy movie that completely falls apart in the past 3rd of the film. It gets too ridiculous and stupid to be taken even partially serious and by the end you will probably be laughing like me at how DUMB it is. Just pass. 3/10

House of Bones

[Scarecrow-88 · 2/10 · 17 January 2010]

Charisma Carpenter stars as a psychic who "reads" supposedly "haunted places" hired by a reality TV show. Corin Nemic is a self-absorbed celebrity television host whose cheesy show, Sinister Sites, is sinking in the ratings, needing a boost so he reluctantly agrees to attend(or so he thinks)the newest selected house(The Wicker House, where a child went missing), which, unlike other fraud turkeys, is legitimately haunted. Charisma senses a lot of pain which will visit upon the Sinister Sites crew over a night shoot. It doesn't take long before paranormal activity rears it's ugly head. Technical equipment(cameras, sound microphones,recorders, even a little remote controlled robot)are put to good use in the hopes of capturing something substantially significant. Sci-fi channel haunted house flick wears out the usual, and very tired, clichés. There's a well located in the slaves quarters(..which is now an abandoned shack)which is kind of a belly of the Wicker house(..we actually hear crunching sounds after a dead body is thrown into it, signaling it's feeding!)and come to find that it must be fed. Those caught in the house include Carpenter(..as Heather), producer Tom Rule(Rick Robinson, Jr, who gets all excited at the possibilities that this show will yield actual results seeing career advancement), crew members Greg(Marcus Lyle Brown) and Simon(Collin Galyean)& invited guest Bub(Kyle Russell Clements). We soon discover that the house is needing a "caretaker" to provide it with human nourishment. Nemec doesn't really factor into the plot, as host/executive producer Quentin, until the very end, and really doesn't have much to do other than bemuse as a smug Hollywood "star". Carpenter remains frightened and cautious(..when she isn't ill either from spitting blood or gagging hair?!?!). The character of Tom changes behavior almost spontaneously, which never makes a hell of a lot of sense, going from scared rabbit wanting to get out of the house, to voluntary killer willing to do it's evil bidding. Stephanie Honore is Sarah, the house's Realtor, and unfortunate victim when she shows up, believing she was called by Simon, when in fact it was the building's evil to summoned her! Ridiculous plot, story developments, and finale sink this pitiful movie which is devoid of thrills or chills. An eye is gouged by a small drill, an ax is hurled into a victim's back, a sharred piece of window glass stabs into another victim's mouth, etc. I figured this was more or less a spoof on "ghost reality shows", such as sci-fi channel's very own "Ghost Hunters", failing miserably.

baby's first horror movie

[phenomynouss · 1/10 · 12 August 2018]

To be as fair as possible, this is not even close to the worst horror movie I have ever seen. But it is done with such a complete and total lack of any sort of spirit or élan that it just doesn't deserve anything other than the lowest possible score.

the acting is bad, but not so laughably bad that it becomes fun to mock and deride. some of the actors are clearly doing their best and you can't be mad or derisive at them for it. they're at least putting in effort where it seems absolutely no one else is.

and indeed, "no effort" would probably be a better theme for this film and title for this review. this film looks and feels like it was written, produced, and directed by someone who has seen exactly 4 movies in their entire life, and 3 of them were about haunted houses.

The ghost hunting stuff is tepidly skimmed upon; we're just supposed to expect and take for granted that they have all this supposed ghost hunting equipment and that it means "spooky ghosts" whenever it makes noise. there's no attempt to even condescend to the audience in explaining one or two of the devices.

the music is nonstop all throughout of some of the most generic, nondescript horror movie background music likely taken from an archive and put together out of some misguided belief that every single scene needs overbearing and blatantly obvious music cues as though this were a silent movie musical. it gets to a point where it's so obnoxiously overdone as to come across as amateurish as a children's horror show episode too cheap to be Goosebumps.

further driving home the "knock-off children's horror show" mood is the actor playing Quentin, the host of the ghost hunting show who doesn't actually interact with the cast much and acts like what a child might imagine an A-list celebrity talks and acts like. They are a one-dimensional character straight out of Power Rangers, but with no comic relief to justify their existence here.

virtually everything else about the film is so boring, generic, and formulaic as to not even warrant attention paid to it. the CG effects are bad and put center-stage so we can clearly see and admire how terrible they are, rather than used sparingly and quickly to enhance a scene. the camera work is flatly "there", as though they set up a camera, turned it on, and that's it. the lighting is as wide open and brightly lit as a sitcom, completely detracting from the mood of a horror movie, and the dialogue is too terrible to be of note, and yet somehow not bad enough to be laughable.

Not too bad

[SanteeFats · 5/10 · 7 October 2013]

A supposed reality show that does turn real as it progresses. Charisma Carpenter gets the lead billing and plays a sensitive. When she pulls the string of hair out of her mouth it gets a bit much. She won't leave the house because she says she is the only one that can help. The rest of the crew are pretty much unbelievers in the super natural based on their past shows. When they encounter an actually super natural occurrence they start to freak out. Corin Nemec is the shows star, is an egotistical pretty boy who thinks he is the cats meow, and shows up late for the filming and actually plays kind of a bit part. Marcus Lee Brown is the technical guy. The crew wants to bail on the project but the producer won't let them if they want to stay employed. The cute young bank agent played by Stephanie Honore unfortunately returns to the house and gets killed by shattered glass. The remaining crew finally believes and start a search for the source. They should have stayed together. Feeding the well so they can escape turns to be a bad idea. The end is a little unexpected as the producer goes to the dark side and kills everyone else. He continues on as an agent of the house.

Charisma Carpenter completely wasted

[mrohlee · 3/10 · 23 January 2010]

I watched "House of Bones" after seeing a mention in USA Today that Charisma Carpenter from Buffy/Angel was starting in it. What a let down. I do not understand why the producers would put her in the movie then give her virtually nothing to do. As a basic "haunted house" movie it is okay. In this case the house doesn't have ghosts living in as the house itself it sort of alive. A team of ghost hunters come after going to 50 other houses none of which showed any real paranormal activity. Charisma sort of shows up with no back story as some class of medium. She is wearing baggy clothes and there is no attempt to glam her up. Okay as the story starts to unwind the ghost hunters are running around the place and about every ten minutes the script has Charisma holding her head and complaining about the evil presence. I kept waiting for her character to step up and take over or become possessed or do something else to become the focal point of the story. But no, it never happens. The part wasn't any kind of a show case, it was something they could have pulled anyone off the street and stuck in there and there wouldn't have to change any dialog. I don't understand this as they could have kept the story virtually the same but have character that gets the most screen time and is alive at the end be played by Charisma. That I would have enjoyed, this is just disappointing.

So if you want to see a "C" movie about a haunted house it's okay as a time filler. If you want to see Charisma Carpenter as I did this is not something to watch.

Somewhat tolerable compared to other SyFy movies, but still has a lot wrong with it

[TheLittleSongbird · 4/10 · 8 July 2012]

To be honest, I was expecting House of Bones to be really bad. But actually, while heavily flawed it is not as bad as other SyFy movies. It is competently made, with decent editing and atmospheric lighting. Effects are kept at minimal and while nothing great when they are there they are much better than those in other SyFy efforts, not as fake-looking. Apart from an irritating performance from Corin Nemec and a disengaged Charisma Carpenter, the acting is about average, with nobody bad but also nobody standing out. The house is well-used and quite creepy, and the well-house twist was pretty nice. However, the sound effects and such are rather obvious sometimes, and the film is further brought down by a cheesy script, really obnoxious and stereotypical characters(especially the TV host), a story that while not dull is predictable, implausible(this may have been avoided if some of the ideas took slower to unfold) and completely let down by a suspense-less, downbeat and utterly ridiculous final third and too many scenes that are rather tame in alternative to unsettling. All in all, better than expected but nothing all that special at the end of the day. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Not bad, just a low budget horror flick...

[destroyerwod · 7/10 · 21 June 2011]

I would simply suggest watching this movie for what it is, a simple low budget horror movie. Everything in this is just correct... not bad or not that good. The story is pretty much classic , a haunted house, but they had a few thing to make it goes out of the ordinary. Special Effects are neither awesome but not bad at all, they are lets say believable. Actors where average at best but you are not watching an horror movie for its acting right? Charisma Carpenter should had less clothes on but well... lol. Seriously i enjoyed this little movie on a late night, it won't remain burned in my head for long, but it was entertaining on the moment.

Horror Gets A Recall

[aesgaard41 · 3/10 · 2 October 2012]

There's a house in the neighborhood that is at the center of several unexplained disappearances. Instead of the police trying to solve the mystery, in comes the cast of a paranormal TV show called "Sinister Sites." "House Of Bones" is actually kind of interesting to watch, but it never goes anywhere or answers any questions. It starts out with what sounds like what will be a decent haunted house movie, but it soon distorts into a substandard serial killer movie. Worst part, there is very little haunted house about this plot which is mostly all about nothing. All we know is that the structure called the Old Wicker House seems to have a presence of its own, but how that connects to the missing neighborhood kids is left unanswered. As far as haunted house movies go, there is nothing really new or fresh. The plot stays incoherent and gives a lot of clues, but it doesn't explain anything except that the house requires a caretaker to keep it alive to stuff the bodies in the walls or dump them into the well under the old servant's quarters in back. It's not scary, but it does exude atmosphere. Corin Nemec plays the TV host of the series, but instead of going out on a limb and playing the role as a sensitive guy, he reverts to type and plays the host as a conceited windbag. Charisma Carpenter wanders through her scenes looking for something to do; she is practically wasted in this film. There's no character development, not much story and at times, the plot gets a bit confusing. The TV ghost hunters get trapped in the house and somehow deduce incredible scenarios and far-fetched ideas of what's happening. It seems the house may be eating people, so they try to poison it. Why not just burn it down? Because that would have made more sense. Just when things can't get more ridiculous, one guy goes nuts and starts killing everyone. You don't why, he just does. No explanation given. I can only figure he wanted to end the movie that much faster. If only he had did this twenty minutes in before things became far-fetched. Nemec gets killed by the killer swinging a tree branch; yes, I said a tree branch. I guess the killer was just too lazy to get something that would do some damage, like a knife or a chainsaw. Nemec's character even "holds" on to the branch after he dies. The death scenes are boring – one character chokes on a glass shard without even bleeding to death under some very weird and wrong physics. Nothing is explained, the movie just runs on what little steam it has and wraps itself. Movie over. I would say "House Of Bones" is worth a watch, but you won't get scared.

Suspensefully excellent TV movie.

[TheNoItAll · 10/10 · 16 January 2010]

I just finished watching "House of Bones" and I must say that I was impressed. When I tuned in I thought that I was just watching another boring, pointless Sci-Fi movie or "SyFy" as they now call it. The acting was way better than I was expecting Charisma was great as always, but the others were surprisingly good also. Some of the Special effects were a little cheesy but for a "SyFy" they were great. I was on the edge of my seat from the very start when the boy went to get his baseball and all the way to the very end. The story & plot of a haunted house that wasn't just haunted but very much alive was familiar, probably used before, but still very interesting & in it's own way unique. To sum it up this movie was AMAZING for what it was. Even if it was in the theaters it was still worth watching! I recommend it to anyone who loves horror flicks.

Good concept, decent execution

[TheXeroXone · 6/10 · 22 October 2011]

This is an interesting take on the haunted house motif. Here the house "lives" off the bodies of its victims. Unfortunately this house doesn't take many victims on its own and when it does, its doesn't do as much as it could with them. For example, when a couple of bodies are disposed of within the house, there's an off-screen crunching sound and signs that the house is growing stronger from the nourishment, but these scenes are not that creepy.

Also there are a couple of scenes that are entirely pointless and make little sense overall including a black shadow that roams around in a couple of scenes and tries to look scary but ultimately doesn't do anything.

The film does excel in showing how the house distracts and separates the group even after the protagonists tell themselves not to split up when searching the house. Also, I'm glad to finally see a movie that realizes that eye trauma does not necessarily equate to death.

A couple of lame jump scares aside, this film produces a creepy atmosphere similar to what Rose Red created, but not quite as intense as 1408. Its far from bad, but it could have been a lot better.

Better than usual SyFy Channel horror film, it's still pretty bad though.

[poolandrews · 3/10 · 17 March 2012]

House of Bones starts as a television network executive tells reality television show 'Sinster Sites' host Quentin French (Corin Nemec) that the show is close to being cancelled & that he needs to do some location filming. Meanwhile Sinister Sites producer Tom Rule (Ricky Wayne) has found a supposedly haunted house & is checking it out with lead investigator Gred Fished (Marcus Lyle Brown), cameraman Simon (Colin Gaylean), production assistant Bub (Kyle Russell Clements) & psychic Heather Burton (Charisma Carpenter) who is there to add some authenticity to the show. The crew set their equipment up but Heather sense something evil, a supernatural presence that lures Bub to his death & gains energy from his demise. Soon the house has trapped the remaining crew inside itself & begins to terrorise & kill them as it needs fresh human soul's to exist. As the mystery of the house is revealed the survivors fight for their lives in a desperate bid to escape...

Directed by Jeffrey Scott Lando this SyFy Channel original is a slight departure for them as House of Bones does not feature any giant Fish, Reptile, Dinosaur or Animal of any description & instead turns it's collective attention to the haunted house genre. House of Bones is a mixture of films such as Burnt Offerings (1976), The Shining (1980), Poltergeist (1982), The Ring (2002) & The Skeleton Key (2005) & shamelessly rips them off both in style & content. To be fair House of Bones isn't the worst film I have ever seen but it's pretty moronic & poor, I also had the misfortune to be suckered in by cool Blu-ray artwork & brought it blind so I actually paid good money for this, yes, I am mad & I feel very foolish. The basic story about a reality television show crew being trapped in a haunted house is decent enough & I really liked the idea that the house fed off the character's death's & behind all the walls are slimy entrails, bones & bits of human flesh but that's about as good as House of Bones gets. At 85 minutes long House of Bones has a reasonable pace & one or two decent moments but overall it's lacklustre, tame & underdeveloped. The human remains behind the walls are never really expanded upon, the well at the end comes out of nowhere & feels like it's there because there was a haunted well in The Ring while the ending makes no sense as surely if a television crew just disappeared questions would be asked & official investigations commenced. While House of Bones takes itself seriously for the vast majority of it's duration there's some grating comic relief with Corin Nemec as the main host who overacts but does provide some relief from the dullness, I am also surprised that none of the crew still trapped inside the house ask Quentin to go for help while he is outside trying to get in. Not that House of Bones makes any logical sense anyway, decision making by the character's leaves a lot to be desired to be honest. The script tries to vary things but ideas that are introduced are quickly dropped never to be brought up again, the glowing worm things for instance seem to serve no great purpose.

House of Bones looks alright, it's competently made enough with the minimal use of CGI computer effects work which the SyFy Channel are notorious for, there's not much blood or gore & a pretty low body count although I must commend the makers for the rather downbeat if implausible ending. There's a brief shot of some severed toes, a bit of blood splatter, a very tame scene in which someone gets a shard of glass stuck in their mouth, someone gets a drill in his eyeball & the best kill when a cop tries to climb over the fence & is impaled on the fencing spikes. Charisma Carpenter keeps her clothes on throughout & quite frumpy they are too. Forget about the really cool looking monster on the DVD/Blu-ray artwork as showcased by the IMDb on the House of Bones main page, it's in the film for about ten seconds & there's never a full body shot of it either, just a few brief quick flashes before it disappears back down the well. Don't be fooled like I was, hell I was ripped-off but you don't have to be. The entire film is brightly lit & mainly set in the day in a fairly small hose which does not to build tension, suspense or atmosphere.

Filmed in Crowley & Lafayette in Louisiana this has pretty good production values actually, it looks reasonably good to be fair to it. The acting is so-so, it's not laugh out loud terrible but not exactly great either.

House of Bones is the first film I have brought blind in years in the sense that I didn't check any online reviews or anything & was suckered in by a nice box, I feel cheated & even buying a cheap second hand copy I feel ripped-off & disappointed. Not as terrible as some SyFy Channel films but I'd rather have watched it for free than spend good money on it.

so bad it makes me mad

[nattherat123123 · 1/10 · 31 October 2013]

this ''film'' (i dare to call it) is so bad when ever a friend brings it up i almost puke the storyline s (aswell as a disappointment) a total mess of various already used scenes.

i rate this move a -14 sorry if you were offended in anyway but i would literally rather be stabbed than watch this.

AND I ENJOY LOW BUDGET FILMS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was surprised to find this movie was directed by the maker of goblin (yet another TV film fest) and many other bad movies made for TV, if your looking for a good time and a film that states its characters enough so you remember them i highly recommend an entirely different film any even if you have to watch a film from the 1920s. you will highly disappointed if you watch this so just take my advice and watch another horror masterpiece unlike this disappointment.

by now, I should know better

[chexmix · 2/10 · 28 September 2013]

I often watch horror movies when I want ... well, er, entertainment. Even though that (entertainment for entertainment's sake) is a fairly low bar for many, for me I will positively NOT be entertained if the execution of the movie (story, acting, effects, etc) is poor -- instead, I will be annoyed.

In this case I was highly annoyed.

Exhausted from a couple of days of driving, I lay back to scrape the sides of the online barrels (Netflix, Google Play) to see if anything decent was left. I found House of Bones, and -- gaack! -- purchased it before sidling on over to IMDb to check out reviews. Bad idea. Even though it was only a couple of dollars, I felt ripped off.

It is difficult to know whether to chiefly blame the acting or the writing or the direction or the concept. All are poor -- but it takes an extraordinary actor to light up material that is so poorly written as to make no sense, and that is what we have here.

I'll just point out one small example of why -- or rather how -- this movie is a steaming pile of thrown-together crap, and then I'm going to quit, because House of Bones has already wasted enough of my time. This should serve as an example of the manner of slapdashery you'll find here.

The 'haunted house' crew has, it's made fairly clear, NEVER (before visiting the "Wicker House", that is) seen anything scarier than a woman who tried to pick up one of the crew members in a bar, ha ha ha hee ha my sides are splitting. That is, they've NEVER seen anything "supernatural". And YET ... not only do they all seem to know what "ectoplasm" is, THEY'VE ENCOUNTERED IT BEFORE (the previous encounter was with something green -- the ectoplasm here is yellow, and "smells old").

Hunh? Which is the case? Neither is the case, because this movie wasn't developed, it was stitched together, and the pieces fit badly.

There is no focused plot, there are no coherent characters (there can't be in a Mulligan Stew like this) and the majority of the effects are really terrible. Things just happen, and then they stop happening.

Congratulations! You'll never get that hour and a half back.

So yeah...

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 2 January 2020]

A group of ghost hunters from a nationally syndicated TV show called Sinister Sites arrive for their latest assignment - the mysterious Wicker House in New Orleans. While the house has remained uninhabited since a series of murders in the 1950's, locals know to stay away. Could this be the last episode of the show or can they make it out alive?

Director Jeffrey Scott Lando is a veteran of horror and SF made for cable movies like Haunted High, Roboshark and Decoys 2: Alien Seduction. He's ably assisted by Corin Nemec as Quentin French, the host of the show, along with Charisma Carpenter as Heather Burton, a psychic.

This was written by Anthony C. Ferrante - who is behind all of the Sharknado movies - and Jay Frasco. Also - if you see the DVD cover that I posted, please know that the creature on it has nothing to do with the actual movie. It doesn't even appear in it.

Average Syfy Movie - Bad writers

[braisyn · 1/10 · 10 November 2020]

If you are looking for an average syfy movie this is it. If you are looking for a movie that you can eat popcorn while watching then no. Lame story, bad script. Although the actors did do a decent job with what they had.

Suffers from the same fate as many other "ghost" movies...

[AndyVanScoyoc · 5/10 · 1 December 2019]

A ROTTEN ending.

Whether through sheer laziness or lack of creativity, the ending blew this entire movie and I can safely say, this will be the absolute LAST "Paranormal" film I watch.

I DESPISE the movie, "Rose Red." To me, it was a total snooze fest, not to mention disjointed and a far too drawn out storyline.

So...when this film started taking on the same quality, but at a faster pace, I though maybe RR was getting a MUCH needed reboot.

Then come the stupid mistakes...one person seems to be possessed from the get-go, but "plays along" well and then whoops he decides to turn on the others and just when it looks like they might all escape...he COMPLETELY loses his mind, surrendering to the house and killing them all.

So...why did I just give away the entire movie?

To save you the agony of wasting your time, thinking you're watching a better quality Rose Red, only to be disappointed by the STUPID, STUPID, STUPID ending.

Rub salt in your eyes rather than watch this. At least the end result will more than likely be better than this film.

One technique I thought was original

[foster-perry · 7/10 · 27 November 2012]

Redbox rental. One technique was used that I thought was original was the perception of the actor compared to what is advanced in the plot! Totally different! I don't want to give it away, you will see what I mean.

I enjoyed the movie! Just got through TRYING to watch "The Vow" (gag, turned off after a respectable 45 minute attempt) and "Killjoyhell" (sorta funny, but after an even more respectable 55 minutes I cut off) but I was actually able to watch this all the way through. CC may of had a little to do with it, but watching the entire movie is a plus recommendation!

Certainly the plot is familiar and it is not scary to the viewer- it is not meant to be. Which means there are no annoying loud sound effect on some stupid event meant to jolt (5 year old's at this point in the movie business). Instead, you watch some jaded show-crew and producer face something unexpected. Some fine women actors top it off.

Could have been a lot worse.

[Stevieboy666 · 5/10 · 27 August 2020]

TV ghost hunters investigate a haunted house, but unlike their previous episodes this one is for real. A former plantation home, the house is alive and has a taste for human blood! Well for a start this thankfully didn't jump on the paranormal activity found footage bandwagon, a very popular - and often annoying - sub genre at the time. Made for TV this movie is at times cheesy and a bit cheap looking, but it does also manage a few decent scares and has some good gore scenes. The acting was OK but the ending wasn't very convincing. Overall this film was an adequate watch, I have sat through many far worse ghost movies than this. Worth 86 minutes if your time.

better than ghost hunters

[kairingler · 10/10 · 22 January 2010]

after watching this i can this is way better than ghost hunters. this movie totally rocks. the plot line does seem kinda weak but the movie really picks up in a lot of other areas. they get to the house that they are investigating and everything seems to go wrong at exactly the same time, the assistant doesn't follow instructions and he does what he wants to do which leads to his disappearance, while the crew go looking for their co-worker others have strange things happen to them like the TV coming on and a commercial that keeps on repeating itself, somehow the house is evil and needs to eat , for years the house has been evil, so it is trying to kill off the inhabitants one by one. a TV reality show-host makes his way to the house only not in time. later the crew discover a well where all the bodies have been disposed of. ah so this is where they all go when the house is hungry, but who is feeding it.

Sinister Sites

[nogodnomasters · 6/10 · 23 October 2017]

This is a 2010 made for US TV with noticeable commercial pauses. A group of TV ghost hunters, who have their own bag of tricks of "smoke and mirrors" opt to do a show at the Wicker House which turns out to be seriously haunted. Charisma Carpenter plays a psychic providing some minor eye-candy. The house had a fair creep factor to it and the production itself was a slightly better than average US TV offering. Worth a watch, but not a keeper.

Lordy Lordy, OH So Corny...

[jaimellester · 1/10 · 19 April 2021]

And not in a good way. It is so bad. So very bad. Charisma Carpenter is disappointing bc you expect more. The rest of the characters are trying, you can tell they really are, but they aren't working with something worthy. I made myself finish it, and it never gets any better. My advice? Run and don't look back. There are better Found Footage horrors out there. Try Grave Encounters.

I can't quite tell...

[kay_rock · 3/10 · 30 August 2018]

I'm not sure if they were trying to make a comedy and just failed to make it really funny or if they actually thought they were making a horror film.

It's ALMOST Sharknado bad, but not quite enough to make it as wonderful as Sharknado. The intention gets lost in the execution, so mostly it just ends up... well.... bad. What a shame. With this cast it could have been epically bad and therefore just a lot of fun.