Molly and Lizzie live with their mom in a crowded apartment building. Mom buys a huge and very old house away from the city life they're used to from a sleazy real-estate agent who doesn't tell them about the missing woman who lived there decades ago.
Lizzie is happy to have her own room, a large room in the basement. Her family helps her knock down the useless wall so that her room will be bigger, and in doing so they release a force that terrorizes the family and eventually possesses Lizzie with the spirit of a German woman who was sealed alive in the walls.
Secrets in the Walls is your basic cliché ghost story. Lizzie is a shallow, boring character with no personality, and as usual they pull the emo routine with her by making the ghost attack her and making it appear as though Lizzie hurt herself. Molly is a typical blonde, whiny-voiced, bratty little girl who, as in most ghost story films like Poltergeist and the Messengers, can perceive bad events and sense the ghost. The trailer-trash mom is pretty boring but her co-worker, the medium, was a very interesting character. The soundtrack was bad, especially the song that played when the family was knocking the wall down, it was an unnecessary pop song that really added the element of annoying to the movie. The ghost was typical, its past boring and a copy of other movies. The ending was pretty cheesy and the acting was terrible, but the scenery was pretty good so it deserves a few stars just for the nice old house. I think it was a beautiful house, not creepy by any stretch of the imagination. This movie is a great example of why Lifetime should just stick to making true crime and drama movies, horror doesn't work with them.
Lizzie is happy to have her own room, a large room in the basement. Her family helps her knock down the useless wall so that her room will be bigger, and in doing so they release a force that terrorizes the family and eventually possesses Lizzie with the spirit of a German woman who was sealed alive in the walls.
Secrets in the Walls is your basic cliché ghost story. Lizzie is a shallow, boring character with no personality, and as usual they pull the emo routine with her by making the ghost attack her and making it appear as though Lizzie hurt herself. Molly is a typical blonde, whiny-voiced, bratty little girl who, as in most ghost story films like Poltergeist and the Messengers, can perceive bad events and sense the ghost. The trailer-trash mom is pretty boring but her co-worker, the medium, was a very interesting character. The soundtrack was bad, especially the song that played when the family was knocking the wall down, it was an unnecessary pop song that really added the element of annoying to the movie. The ghost was typical, its past boring and a copy of other movies. The ending was pretty cheesy and the acting was terrible, but the scenery was pretty good so it deserves a few stars just for the nice old house. I think it was a beautiful house, not creepy by any stretch of the imagination. This movie is a great example of why Lifetime should just stick to making true crime and drama movies, horror doesn't work with them.