Although some people may draw connections with Japanese horror flicks such as Ring, this film is more along the lines of the recent dreadful "The Forgotten", mixing tragic circumstances with X-Files mumbo jumbo. (Remember the "scary" distorted face made out of static in the opening credits of the X-Files? Michael Keaton is trying to make contact with his dead wife but keeps getting that!) As a teenager I remember being chilled to the bone by the book "The Ghost of 29 Megacycles" - I read the blurb and was too terrified to open the book. Hopefully now less of a wuss I was nonetheless still intrigued by the concept of communicating with the dead using common household appliances.
The movie was a disappointment apart from a couple of cheap startling moments the otherwise well done creepiness was undermined by made for TV quality special effects, and a plot which decides to be a whodunnit at exactly the moment you find out who dunnit.
Anyway, what were you expecting - it's a Michael Keaton vehicle. Poor guy.
The movie was a disappointment apart from a couple of cheap startling moments the otherwise well done creepiness was undermined by made for TV quality special effects, and a plot which decides to be a whodunnit at exactly the moment you find out who dunnit.
Anyway, what were you expecting - it's a Michael Keaton vehicle. Poor guy.