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John (Michael Vartan), Melanie (Nadine Velazquez) and their daughter
Hannah (Erin Moriarty) move into a new home - and while the parents are
totally taken in by the spaciousness of the place, Hannah, your typical
teenager, doesn't like it much, as it means she's separated from all her
friends and especially boyfriend Tommy (Blake Jenner) and has to go to a
new school. But after a while, she notices some other things wrong with
the new place, like some weird noises and stuff, but her parents don't
really want to hear about it, and when she says she has seen someone in
the attic, they can even prove to her that she was wrong. Hannah does some
research and finds out a family was murdered in their house 10 years ago,
and nobody knows who did it. However, the stuff belonging to the family is
still in the garage, and Hannah finds out the family actually had an
agoraphobic son, David (Dorian Kingi), who nobody knew about and thus
whose whereabouts are unknown. Suffice to say, David actually lives in the
house's crawlspaces, and his first action is actually a benign one as he
saves Hannah (without her knowledge) from a tresspasser (Ronnie Gene
Blevins) intent on raping her. But soon he shows his true face, and starts
attacking all of those in what he perceives to be "his" home.
And even if he's outnumbered, only he knows the crawlspaces and how to get
through them without getting stuck ... Basically, this is just
a very generic horror movie: While its slowburn approach is commendable,
and the revelation of the identity of the villain in the third act at
least surprising, everything else is strictly by the numbers, from
build-up to characters to dialogue even. That said, if you're up for a
rather average piece of creepy cinema, thisw one will at least not let you
down, it just lacks the kind of panache that would make it in the least
bit memorable.
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