Usually I'm not very fond of the horror movies. Most of them lack a basic quality and original ideas. Others are filled with greasy horror ideas rather than choosing a more clever psychological angle. This years' thriller Sicario showed a good example that it's enough to have loads of tension with a mystery background to nail it. Maybe, that's exactly that movies are lacking these days coming out as too revealing and destroying the whole mystique aura right away.
Sadly this was also the case for this movie. It would of been just enough to show us that something was off with with two foreigners after their first appearance. But the creators had to go as far as making main characters to spill out their evil plans 20 minutes into the movie. The only thing left for us to sort out was which sibling is more evil. But starting of with the dirty laundry first let me continue with the positives.
First of all, this movie brought my attention as true dark Gothic story. It was a concept that nobody tried to get their hands on for a while for some reason. Old dark houses can help to create a perfect atmosphere and bring your darkest dreams alive. For us 19th century manners, style, costumes becomes no less of a ghost from a past itself, so it's a very good place for the real spirits to show up. The entire cast also made a good job of making the story to come alive. The main theme included a deep thought, that it's not the ghosts we should be afraid of, but rather the people who can affect you directly.
If I could choose my final rating would be somewhere around 7, just because there's so much more to be found here than in typical movies of this genre.
