The film opens with a young girl who is
holding a baby being chased in the middle of the night by an angry mob.A
passing driver see what is happening and steps in to help.The mob is scared off
then fast forward to a few years later.....
We see our main and very troubled character
a reclusive loner who lives at home after her mother passes away.Then her
father returns with his new girlfriend who the grandmother takes an immediate
dislike to as she is half Indonesian. No.No matter what the son tries grumpy old
granny is having non of it. They have returned to seek shares owed to them by
his previous employer in the hopes of setting up a new life. Unfortunately
for them the employer has no intention of selling his shares and his excuse is
now that the company has expanded all he the father wants is his money, He
tells his new lady the only way this will happen is when he is dead.
The young girl is part of the school
swimming team and is regularly bullied by the other girls, things like taking
her clothes when she is the shower etc. One day after a series of odd events
she searches the internet to see how to contact a ghost as she has the
suspicion that her mother maybe trying to contact her. As instructed in the
video she lights 3 candles and at the stroke of midnight she says the ghost she
wishes to contacts name in the mirror 3 times, The only thing that to happens is that her grandma comes in and
tells her she to sleep as it's getting late! But the next day at school
whilst she is taking an exam her pencil mysteriously rolls on its own, she
grabs it and at that point it seems possessed,
it starts filling in all the answers for her then it later transpires
that she has scored a good 98% on her test. This is not the only odd thing to
happen, when she next has a swimming
race she comes first, much to the annoyance of the head girl she challenges her
to another race and if she loses she has do do 5 lengths naked, she agrees but
only on the premise that if she wins the head girl has apologise in front
of everyone, the race takes place and on the final part it appears that
something drags the head girl under the water, visibly shaken she says that it
was just cramp and reluctantly apologies to the one she has been bullying.
At this point it appears that the weird
stuff is not only happening to her but her grandmother is frequently woken in
the night by all manner if sounds, this leads to some great scenes where in
true Asian horror style we see a solo person wondering around a spooky house,
you know the kind of thing I mean, mirrors, things moving under blankets
etc..
So it seems that the father and his
girlfriend are getting screwed over, the granny is losing her marbles and the
young girl is constantly picked on, will it be the mother ghost who returns to
help them all?well you'll just have to give it a look and find out!
It has to be said that it is a bit of a
slow burn but the last 20 minutes are excellent, yes it can be said that
it is your typical Asian horror but with some great performances and more than
it's fair share of jump scares its definitely worth checking out,
7.5 / 10
Jonny T.
