The senior partner of an investment brokerage Jeffrey has a breakdown and kills his two associates and his wife. Then he takes his threeyear old daughter Victoria and the oneyear old daughter Lilly and drives his car through a winding snowing road. He has a car accident and fall off a cliff but he brings his daughters to an abandoned and isolated cabin to kill them but the children are saved by a creepy ghostly creature. Five years later Jeffreys brother Lucas finds the children that were raised without social relationship and claim that they have been raised by Mama. Lucas disputes the custody with the childrens grandmother but Dr. Dreyfuss who is studying the girls selects Lucas to take care of the children. Lucas lives with his girlfriend Annabel who plays in a rocknroll band and Victoria and Lilly moves to their house. Soon Lucas and Annabel find that the girls were not delusional and they are not alone in the house.
Review
I really liked this movie and the concept for it was original. I think this film makes the viewer think about what the characteristics are of being a mother. What sort of instincts we as woman can display and what kind of connections can be made with a child even if you're a terrifying ghost.
Del Toro will always put his name on a good thriller surrounding small children. This movie had all the thrills of a scary movie and the elements fright used in the film had everyone in my theater on the edge of the seat. The movie waist no time getting into the meat of the story.
There are flaws in the film and it does have to do with plot holes. The director could have worked these holes out with other writers......like Del Toro perhaps. The back story had the hugest gap of all.
Regardless it was better than ɽon't be Afraid of the Dark' and I will be seeing this film again.
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