HAUNT

Revolver picture Company

Directed by: Mac Carter

Starring by: Jackie Weaver, Brian Wimmer, Ione Skye, Harrison Gilbertson, Liana Liberato

I mixed up on the first sight when the beginning of the scene on this film showing me how Franklin Morello get connected with his dead family with some supernatural radio. But it turns out to be a house that’s been haunted like Amityville Horror, which I thought about a haunted radio like I’d seen on Possession with a Dybbuk box. 

The idea about supernatural radio is something fresh but the tense decrease on the next round. The abandon house finally got new owner, Asher family, who filled it after being left so many years. The Asher actually heard about creepy story about the house, which taken the lives of the member of the previous family, but it don’t matter for them and they decide to have it. That was the same story of mine when my family move in to some house in the small town, Cilacap, everyone knows that our house is haunted but my parents choose to ignore, not because they’re brave enough but because the house was given by my dad’s office as a house office.

Alan Asher and his wife Emily also move their children, the teenagers Evan, Sara, and Anita for coincidence to be the exact number of the previous dead family. And there’s something weird about the attics that become Evan’s room. The central character was Evan, the weird phenomenon begun when Evan meet Sam, a girl who’s been crying in the woods, and to be honest if that happened to me I surely will step away from a creature who’s crying alone in the middle of nowhere like that…

This mysterious girl hanging out a lot with Evan and she stayed in his room at one night after she’s got fight with his father. I didn’t know about people in US, but here in Indonesia I will hung my son if he suddenly introduce some strange girl who came up from his room in the morning in our house. And the family let Sam live as she pleased on their house until the girl brought some trouble thing to Evan, like pursuing him to play supernatural radio that was belong to Franklin Morello.

One thing I found weird is how Matt, the boy who owned the room before Evan, reacted. By his voice that comes from supernatural radio he sounds mad to Evan, I didn’t know why, is it because he’s taken Matt’s room? But at the end of the of the story, Matt turns out to be a victim of the thing that haunted the house…is it better if the writer make Matt sounds to be a little bit hysterical? Afraid maybe? And he contacts them to warn them about the assassin creature…

The fact is, it sounds like to ghost didn’t like the appearance of Evan there so it’s something about seizure of territory. Many unusual things happened on this film, things that illogical like I’d said about a boy who introduced some girl with unknown status to his family, a family that not concern about strange girl who lived with one of their member in the attic, and how they left Evan alone at the house with the girl like that, how come little baby Samantha who carried by Franklin could return to his drunken father?

Well, these movies indeed haunt me? Not with the fine haunted scene but with unanswered question above…and with so many characters, the whole family, I think its worthless if it turns out that only two characters, Evan and Sam, that were being haunted…so worthless…