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Estranged siblings Dustin (Daniel Burns), Beth (Kellie Spill) and Emma (Lauren Pisano) pay a visit to their even more estranged but now deceased dad's (Bart Shattuck) cabin in the woods to figure out what to9 do with it - now Emma wants to sell and Dustin wants to turn it into an AirBnB - and interestingly both for the same reason, because they've lost their jobs, but they just define "opportunity" dirferently. Beth is town between the two of them as she actually holds a job and her future does not depend on what happens to the cabin. Now this situation in itself is of course difficult enough as it is, but it's only getting more complicated when the siblings learn their father might have taken his own life, and a ghostly presence, Suzanne (Angie Moon Conte), original owner of the house, had her hands in his demise. Things eventually get to a tipping point when all three have ghostly apparitions of dad or Suzanne or both, apparitions designed to drive them to suicide ...

Now here's an unusual piece of horror cinema, so unusual in fact that doesn't even feel like a horror film at the longest time, but that said, when the horror does set in it feels organically ingrained into the story. But really, when it starts out the film feels more like a character piece with sibling rivalry at its center - and it works really well, too, thanks to a very clever and also compelling script that doesn't veer off into straight drama but grants the audience some comical mements as well. And of course, the three leads turning in flawless performances help to bring this to life. And then when the horror sets in properly, it really goes with and even extends everything that happened before, making this a very unusual but utterly enjoyable piece of genre cinema.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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