Wrapped up in horror film trappings comes this somewhat dreary treatise on how society views and treats its senior citizens. Without doubt, its highlight is the appearance of the majestic Barbara Hershey as an elderly dancer who finds herself having to move to a creepy residential home. Playing nicely against a pleasing performance by Nicholas Alexander as her teenage grandson, Hershey dominates the film and elevates the unsurprising material, with an unremarkable and slightly silly not-hard-to-join-the-dots central mystery. There are some occasionally creepy moments, but the dawdling pace makes the film neither scary enough as a horror nor angry enough about its core subject matter.
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