slayrrr666 "Spirit Trap" is a thoroughly boring and hardly-worthwhile ghost effort.**SPOILERS**Needing a home for rent, students Jenny, (Billie Piper) Tom, (Luke Mably) Adele, (Emma Catherwood) Nick, (Sam Troughton) and Tina, (Alsou) move into a huge London flat and meet up with each other, settling into their rooms. Going through the belongings left behind after getting acquainted, they find an old Quija Board and decide to give it a shot, which starts to upset some of them. As the night goes on, they all suddenly experience a series of strange events that are initially blamed on each other, but they soon realize that something may be inside the house with them, and after knowing there's a ghost involved in the proceedings, try to solve the mystery involving them and get out alive.The Good News: There was very little that actually had anything worthwhile to it. The ending to the film is actually enjoyable, as there's the full revelation of the ghostly mystery with some nice action and the full explanation of everything comes off rather well and has some rather fun scenes to it. From the scenes of the psycho stalking them around the cavernous, impressive-looking and suitably creepy house, the race to fulfill the requirements for stopping the events from transpiring, these are all quite fun. As the different reactions of the past are inter-weaved with the regular action being rather fun as well. Overall, these scenes come off good and fun. The only other thing to work is that some of the different dream sequences are pretty creepy visually. Rather than simply trying to do a repeat of the action in the house, they're the only real indication something is wrong and it plays them for all it's worth, leading to some decent moments in the middle of the film. These issues are all the film has going for it.The Bad News: This is a severely flawed effort. One of the biggest problems is that the film is just too dull and boring. This one has such a long amount of time where nothing at all happens, lasting nearly an hour before anything remotely close to producing chills is even used, making for a viewing that lasts forever and ever before finally getting to the ghost action. That's not nearly bad enough, but the way it goes about filling up the useless time is where it makes sure to be boring, as the film decides that using up the time by doing absolutely nothing and have them walk around the house yelling at each other for their different methods, from their drug habits to past relationships to the demons plaguing them coming into the house, and this is exactly the opposite of what's needed to make these scenes feel exciting. None of them are all that interesting or exciting or even enjoyable, making the film a real chore to get through during these later segments when they come into the fore, making it seem like the ghost action in here almost an afterthought and barely in the film about it to begin with as it takes a back-seat to the rest of the film's subplots, which is a bad move all around. The other flaw to this is that the film has an incredibly convoluted plot that doesn't make much sense at all. The use of the clock has very little connection other than providing the resting spot for the clue to which it helps solve the mystery and the focus on it is a little hard to understand, the flashbacks to the past are so unnecessary they could've been dropped and nothing would've been missed and it has a huge flaw dealing around the finale, which is entirely too big to ruin here, but there is a rather big one along with the other flaws on display, leaving this one to be entirely disappointing.The Final Verdict: Dull, boring and uneventful sum up this one quite nicely, leaving little room for the few good spots to emerge. Really only see this if you prefer you're horror meshed with a side of drama, though those looking for some generally more adrenaline-soaked fare or aren't fans of those kinds should ignore altogether.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, drug use, Brief Nudity and a mild sex scene

johnnyboyz There is a sad irony behind Billie Piper's character in this rather silly and uninteresting horror film and that is that she is a drama student, ie; she studies acting and must be good at it to pass. Just who is Billie Piper anyway? I'm sure independent filmmaker David Smith couldn't believe his luck when a name and a face as well known as Miss Piper's suddenly found its way to his latest project; his first and so far last directorial effort. But then again, the fact Billie's even in it gives it a now unwanted level of attention and that is due to the acting career Piper has had since.So Piper plays one of five students who have moved into a mysterious house because of its close proximity to a local college. They are Adele (Catherwood); Tom (Malby); Nick (Troughton); Tina (Alsou) and Piper herself playing the role of Jenny. Each character is to such a basic level that to say they adopt the typical teenage embodiment in a low grade, rental horror-come-slasher is a no-brainer. Adele is dressed up in high heels and a black dress: she's dangerous, loose and seductive; Tom is a fast talking and egotistical drug dealer whose previous life events are hinted at in the film but not revisited; Nick is disappointingly given a 'geek' persona tag and acts throughout in a very innocent and at times surprised manner with Jenny the one character who perhaps elevates herself beyond level one to level two. She is established to be independent through asking questions early on and her background (or perhaps her mother's) is relevant later on.But the characterisation in the film is so off colour that another former singer turned actress (Alsou, who plays Tina) is so non-existent in the film that it does not even need her; bar to show up nearer the end and pull some stern looking faces as the tension is supposedly cranked up – I don't think so. And so with this premise of five kids in one location for the odd night, Spirit Trap begins its slow and steady downward journey into familiar territory. By the end of the film we will have predicted a couple of jumps or maybe suffered one at most; we will have seen a couple of dire reaction shots; we will have witnessed the mutilation of a black man and we will have identified formula after a very brief while.Spirit Trap is really a mere horror thriller that takes place within the walls of a single location but the huge, huge flaw here is that the location is instantly open to being left. When we think of some contemporary examples of this formula, we might think of Alien, The Thing or Predator – each example embodying codes of the thriller, horror and possibly science fiction. Spirit Trap does this but in Alien, the characters had to stay and fight what they were fighting; likewise with The Thing and Predator, there was no way out of the snowy base nor was there the Brazilian jungle. In Spirit Trap, nothing is stopping any of its characters from leaving the house.But this sort of logic is dead in Spirit Trap, proof that the horror genre at least in British film will not be challenging the two dominant genres of comedy and gangster anytime soon. Jenny talks to an apparent landlady or accommodation officer before she arrives at the house and yet after a few hours of being at the house with the others, nobody shows up – isn't Jenny or anyone else suspicious? Secondly, Jenny actually goes to the college the next day for classes and stops off at the accommodation office but it appears the college don't even have an officer – this should've been enough to convince her to get up and leave. But hang on, the next instance she wakes up. Was it all a dream? Perhaps there is an accommodation officer after all and she must go and check in the 'real' world. Either way, things are made to look like they're answered but nothing ever actually gets achieved.Then there are the scenes involving eerie phenomenon's. Throughout the film's duration, people will see ghostly reflections in mirrors; wet footprints in their bedrooms leading up to their beds; items will mysteriously change places and bizarre spirit devices will literally write out words and yet nobody does a thing about it. Nobody informs anybody else of these events, nobody brings them up when Jenny begins to have visions later on and the character's reactions are very muted when these odd events occur. The film is very anti-climatic, Nick spends the film looking surprised; Jenny spends the film puzzled whilst threatening to start a relationship with Nick; Tom and Adele's relationship takes a turn for the worse when their drugs sub-plot opens up in a pointless and uninteresting manner and the film becomes at the very end a familiar routine of slasher, chase, slasher. Spirit Trap is a film with gaping logic, seriously one dimensional characters and comes with an electronic soundtrack - and I'm not talking about a Halloween style theme, either.

kellyfacebook1 To say this movie is awful would actually be complimentary. This movie is so Godawful you want to pull out your own fingernails just for a distraction. Luckily I saw this on TV so no money was wasted on cinema tickets (otherwise I'd have been REALLY mad). Initially it looked quite good; bunch of students stay in a Gothic mansion where where all kinds of spooky mischief occurs. Unfortunately my initial hopes were quickly dashed. The acting was pretty lame, the dialogue was clunky and, at points, downright ludicrous:"Hey, lets play strip poker". "What's strip poker?"WHAT'S. STRIP. POKER???? You cannot be bloody serious! Don't bother with this film, even if you get the chance to watch it for free as you'll end up paying in fingernails.

Darthad I thought Spirit Trap would be rubbish, as other British horror films were. However Spirit Trap was packed full of anticipation, suspense and action. The acting was rather good for low key actors. Known actors such as Luke Mably's acting was a bit dodge compared to his performance in Dream Team. Sam Troughton's acting was better than this acting in Alien V Predator. Unknown actors such as Emma Catherwood and Russian singer/actor Alsou performances were rather good in the roles. However Billie Piper's acting was not as good as it was in Dr Who, but she managed to pull off the lead role in this movie.The storyline and script were both excellent and really made this film, however there was a bit too much crammed into this film for the time allotted. The location and scenery were rather good as well and the make up and costumes.This movie for me was a cross between House On Haunted Hill and Long Time Dead with all the added wow and suspense factor. I also enjoyed the twist in the movie and it will keep you on the edge of you seat. I watched this movie with my sister and she also thought It would be completely rubbish and she really enjoyed it (but she don't want to admit it). As a keen horror movie fan I have seen crap ( Ghost Watcher ) and excellent ( Freddy V Jason ) horrors and I would recommend people to give this film a chance because I will change your life. I hope to see these actors in leading roles in the future.