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Echoes of Fear
USA 2018
produced by Laurence Avenet-Bradley for Avenet Images Productions
directed by Brian Avenet-Bradley, Laurence Avenet-Bradley
starring Trista Robinson, Hannah Race, Paul Chirico, Marshal Hilton, Elif Savas, Danilo Di Julio, Ian Heath, Norman Zeller, Curt Lambert, Anatol Felsen, William Sebastian Munoz
written by Brian Avenet-Bradley, music by Benedikt Brydern
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After the death of her grandfather (Norman Zeller), Alisa (Trista
Robinson) has decided to touch up his house together with her boyfriend
Brandon (Paul Chirico) to put it on the market - which to a degree pains
Alisa, as she loved her grandfather, but also could really use the money.
As Brandon is only able to help on weekends, Alisa spends much time alone
in the house, with the only person she occasionally talks to being elderly
and sickly neighbour David (Marshal Hilton), so it's no big surprise that
she eventually starts hearing things. At first, Alisa chalks this up to
the typical sounds an old house makes, but after time, she figures there's
some reason to the noises, plus she also starts to see things, and she
finds things that might be tied to something terrible that has happened in
the house, and she's properly spooked out. She asks her friend Steph
(Hannah Race) to come over and stay a few nights, and they find traces
that a squatter might stay or have stayed in the house, and in a way
that's a relief, especially after Alisa manages to chase a man who has put
up camp in the crawlspace under the house away. But that's really when the
horrors only start as Alisa soon has apparitions of ghosts that are so
unnerving that he ditches the house for a nearby motel one night - but the
ghosts have apparently followed her, and ultimately she knows if she ever
wants to get rid of them she has to return to the house and find out its
secret, however terrible it might be. It seems the ghosts are even helping
her to find whatever-it-is - it's just that whatever-it-is might be much
more unsettling and dangerous than even the ghosts ... Echoes
of Fear is basically a really well put together horror movie. And
while it may not break any new ground, it's really good at what it's
doing, and that's telling a well structured story with ever-mounting
dread, strong on atmosphere and suspense, with some well-placed and highly
effective jump scares, all leading up to a finale that should have every
viewer on the edge of their seat (if they haven't been there much sooner
that is). And Trista Robinson, who's pretty much in every shot of the
movie, does a great job carrying the film with the right mix of spunk and
vulnerability to make one to both relate and care. Very cool genre fare,
actually.
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