This microbudget British supernatural thriller finds a horror screenwriter renting a creepy isolated mansion (complete with a blind old lady resident in the attic) in order to kickstart his latest project...and that is about it, as not a lot happens. Our dull protagonist gets to wander around a lot, flirt with a mysterious local woman, has a couple of random nightmares and turns off a record player that mysteriously starts playing in the middle of the night. With uninteresting dialogue and a very tentative and uncertain soundtrack, when the actual reveal of what happened in the house occurs, the achingly slow pace neuters it. Essentially a two-hander for the most part, the film struggles to fill its running time and is another example of a somewhat limited British film being promoted with an American genre-styled title and flashy unrelated artwork.
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