whpratt1
This film started out very strange, where you proceed into a home with all religious pictures on the wall and a mother and daughter praying before a statue. Then you see a young man go into a locked room and does horrible things to himself as his father tries to help him. The picture proceeds to Jeff Goldblum,(Hatch Harrison) who plays an antique dealer and his wife Christine Lahti,(Lindsey Harrison). This married couple have a daughter Alicia Silverstone,(Regina Harrison) who is bored to death on a vacation her parents are taking in the mountains. Alicia fights with her dad and they all decided to head back home, on the way they have a car accident which causes reason problems with Hatch Harrison. There is plenty of Soul, Body and Spiritual happenings and also Good & Evil Spirits. If you like this type of film, you will definitely love this film and the excellent acting.
BloodTheTelepathicDog
Director Brett Leonard incorporates too many Lawnmower Man type special effects in this film. The effects were not handled well, and should have been left out entirely. They should have used another method to convey the shared link between Goldblum and Sisto.Having Goldblum die and come back to life, acquiring a link with a sinister teenage Satan worshiper, was an interesting premise. Both Goldblum and Jeremy Sisto give fine performances, but the special effects keep me from grading this film any higher than a five.The climax was nail biting, and lasted for quite awhile, though the conclusion was a big disappointment. Over-rated actress Alicia Silverstone does her typical pouty brat routine here, and isn't worthy to share the screen with either Goldblum or Sisto
FieCrier
I just watched this on video. Looking at the video box, I remembered looking at the video box before, but I didn't remember seeing it before. I remember seeing it before now, though. Not a good sign. I can honestly, then, say this movie is forgettable.It starts with a young man in a house, with two women who appear to be praying silently. He goes up into a small room in which he has a lot of candles lit, newspaper clippings, and things written on the wall in red. He impales himself on a knife. A man runs into the house, and finds his wife and daughter are not praying, they're dead and posed, and he then finds his dead son. In a CGI scene, the dead son's soul or whatever (his translucent face, and a vague indication of his body) is traveling through colorful tunnels. It's pretty laughably bad.From that happy family, we go to Jeff Goldblum and his wife Christine Lahti on vacation with their daughter, Alicia Silverstone. They're corny, and their daughter finds them annoying. They get into a car accident on the way home, and Goldblum drowns or nearly drowns. He goes through the same sort of tunnels, but he also sees his other daughter who had died sometime in the past calling to him. It's pretty laughable too.Alfred Molina brings Goldblum back to life, but Goldblum starts having visions of himself killing young women. He also finds that when he injures himself, the injuries heal up almost instantly (that was never explained). Goldblum worries for the safety of his daughter, who the killer takes an interest in.In the end, there's a big CGI battle between good and evil. It's pretty corny too, and it's not just a matter of the now-dated special effects.
