Based on the average rating, this review will be written by Hot Take McGee… who thinks this was a pretty great horror film. Not sure why the scores are so low. Maybe it doesn’t have enough standard horror bits, gore, or if it’s just that its so similar to Talk to Me (news alert: it is).

The film is about a gal who inherits a pub that has a bad ghost infestation in the basement. Turns out whoever holds the deed can talk to a spook with a bag on its head and it will allow you to summon the recently diseased (oops… deceased). You only have a couple minutes to talk to the spirit or risk letting the evil baghead run amok.

Yeah, it’s Talk to Me without the teenagers and the drug metaphors… there’s still an obsession metaphor but it’s more similar to Pet Sematary (or the end of Re-Animator). A fixation like certainly this time you can get the answers without the evil spirit getting in the way. Just this one more time, etc.

This flick got under my skin. It has a real sense of oppression, a dark atmosphere of danger. The kind of horror that works best for me. It got under my skin. Plus it doesn’t trade so much in the usual low budget horror film tropes… though it flits about them since it has to fill 90 minutes.

I was totally expecting very little from this flick. It’s one of those watches where I got that creeping sensation that, hey, this flick is actually pretty good. I guess it’s not for everyone but if you like your horror oppressively moody but maybe without huge overwhelming – and predictable – horror moments, you might just like it.

Score: 86