I struggled to rate this film. I hate horror / suspense films, but mostly because the ones I have seen tend to be predictable, unrealistic, and not suspenseful. This film escaped that fate by leaving it up in the air for a long time whether or not the eerie happenings were readily explainable or caused by non-existent supernatural phenomena.

I was struck by the heroine’s uncanny prescience. She knew far too much without there being a means for her to learn it—at least not that we saw. We also were given no indication that she had even average sleuthing skills; I was under the impression from the first scene that she was a “bad girl” drifter who couldn’t be more than 22, if that.

There seem to be a number of debates on the IMDB messageboard and elsewhere as to the ending. I, on the other hand, thought it made sense.

The best part about this movie was that I couldn’t predict it. Perhaps we have reached a point in [horror] cinema where the only way to avoid a predictable ending is to be at least somewhat nonsensical. For that, I give it high marks. (I also will refrain from giving much away in this post; if you want to discuss the ending, drop me a line.)

This movie was released as “House of Voices” in the United States.