GL84 When a young woman moves into a traditional Chinese woman's house to be her new housekeeper, the accidental desecration of a sacred ceremony to appease the restless spirits around her unleashes a torrent of supernatural visions and attacks which she has to struggle against in order to stop their malicious behavior.This was a surprisingly above-average take on the genre, much better than expected and certainly got a lot out of it. What really works well for this one is the insane atmosphere throughout here from the multitude of utterly freaky and chilling ghostly encounters. The type of set-up here allows for some really enjoyable parts with plenty of intense scenes throughout here which makes this one such an unrelenting pace, which starts with the opening here. The opening, which is the interrupted ceremony of appeasement, is a total accident as the sweeping away of the initial offering could've happened and the resulting ghostly interactions grabbing her and later confronting her by herself with plenty of ghostly swarms of tentacles comes off incredibly well as a chilling encounter, and when followed up with the skeleton sequence in the kitchen makes for a truly enjoyable time. The second encounter, where she finds the secret room all completely decorated with the lavish ceremonial trinkets before seeing the ghost approaching in the ethereal light with the howling voices in wonderfully atmospheric, a great sequence where they appear to torment her in the laundry room and a fantastic sequence where she awakens from a dream and comes along the series of ethereal lights and voices all come off really well with tons of enjoyable atmospheric action, plenty of ghostly confrontations to move this along. As well, the attacks in the closet and down in the basement all come along into a really exciting series of creepy, enjoyable action confrontations. This one also manages to get some good points in how this builds up the great story here by not only covering the actual holiday and its traditions but also in dealing with the back- story of how she came to be afflicted which is really well-executed and believable here. These here are more than enough to hold this up against the few flaws on display. The main thing against this one is the rather disappointing nature about the ghosts here where they don't really do much in the film on many occasions here, either by getting so little screen-time or generating little damage once they do. This one's reliance on atmosphere and teasing her in the confrontations instead of going after her to torment her doesn't give this any kind of activity for the ghosts to be out killing randomly and generating the kind of action for those set-ups in here. As well, the film's other problem is the inclusion of a really lame and absolutely needless subplot about a spurred boyfriend interacting with the family that really goes nowhere and features some rather lame scenes designed to showcase this which really tends to halt this one quite often to get this in. Otherwise, this one was quite fun.Rated R: Graphic Language and Violence.

K. Emerton I first saw this on "Chiller" last summer and I loved it. I just re- watched it and WOW what was I thinking? What a piece of crap movie! A girl gets a job as a housekeeper for a Chinese woman and her old Aunt during Ghost Month. Their house is haunted. The two woman act a bit off from the very beginning and it is quickly obvious that these woman are up to something. They are keeping secrets that lead to the end of the film. In a completely unneeded sub plot, the girls ex boyfriend tries to find her and eventually does, which plays into the films final scenes. Another subplot involves a weird Black neighbor who doesn't like the Chinese women. The content of the film, including the scares, are bad rip offs of The Grudge and Haunting in Conneticuit.

tinep Just watched this movie and was pleasantly surprised by the twist and turn of the story. I was growing sick of Hollywood horror films with all the gore and violence and I didn't feel like watching those kinds of movies, so this movie didn't fit any of the above category and just was what I wanted to see. The story follows a young woman who was looking for a job to escape her life and found one in a remote place. The rest of the story involves various haunting and mysterious new people she met, and eventually she had to solve the problem surrounding the haunting, and on top of that she had to deal with her own personal problem that comes to find her. This movie has no stars that I recognized, which is too bad, but I don't really mind watching fresh faces either.

saleekrny007 This is just a sloppy remake of "The Maid". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0474791/ . I'm all for remakes and having the American studios try to take an Asian film and put a twist on it, but this slap together drivel is not going to cut it. Come on people. Even though the original movie didn't have much in terms of top line special effects it was way better than this... OK back to the drawing board guys, find another Asian Horror to mess up. How about Death Bell? that seems ripe for a cheesy remake. For me i think i'll stick to the originals. It's a lot better and i'll learn a new language at the same time.