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Haunted Echoes
USA 2008
produced by Mike Snyder, Harry Bromley Davenport (executive) for Dorian Films
directed by Harry Bromley Davenport
starring Sean Young, David Starzyk, M. Emmet Walsh, Barbara Bain, Felix Williamson, Juliet Landau, Charlie Newmark, Kevin McCorkle, Ed Brigadier, Nellie Sciutto, Biff Wiff, Jenn Shagrin, Lily Howe, Sara Van Horn, Zak Kilberg, Najarra Townsend, Michael Azria, Meg Raich, Cami Raich, Angel Oquendo, Luis Buster Rojas, Nicole Renee Torres, Yeniffer Behrens, Jaunique Sealey, Sarah Meltzer
written by Rachel Calendar
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Laura (Sean Young) and Guy (David Starzyk) have just lost their
daughter (Lily Howe) at the hands of a child molester, and since they
figure a change of scenery would do them good, they move to a new place -
which they soon find haunted, and the more they dig into the mystery the
more they come to the conclusion that the ghost is actually their little
daughter telling them that the wrong man has been convicted for her
murder, and Kenneth Monk (Felix Williamson), the son of the former owner
of the house (Barbara Bain), who incidently was the girls choir teacher,
is really to blame. Eventually, their daughter even tells Laura and Guy to
kill Monk - but Monk, it turns out, knows they know something, and he sure
has something to hide, otherwise he wouldn't kill his own mother just so
she can't spill the beans. Eventually, he moves in to kill Laura, but is
prevented from doing so by the resident ghost, but it's not that of
Laura's daughter but of Monk's teenage stepsister (Jenn Shagrin), whom he
has molested and killed back in the day. In the end, Guy comes to the
rescue and kills Monk, who has ironically never laid hands on Laura and Guy's
daughter ... So-so ghoststory that mainly relies on overly
familiar scare tactics, and some of the effects are so tried and true
it's almost pathetic. The murder mystery that carries the haunted house
story on the other hand features a few too many twists and turns for its
own good that has a rather despicable message - "it's ok to kill
people, as long as they are evil" - tacked onto it. Add to this a
less-than-inventive direction and a mediocre cast, and you're left with
... not all that much, I'm afraid.
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