Once upon a time, horror pictures like this one played urban grind houses and starred the B-movie likes of Wings Hauser. The gloss of A-list casting and slicked-up production values doesn't necessarily serve them well; in fact, it almost guarantees suspension-of-disbelief-quashing impatience with recycled genre tropes and credibility-stretching plot developments. Following the bloody suicide of his wife (Amy Irving), New York City psychologist David Callaway (Robert De Niro) makes the odd decision to uproot his wan, withdrawn nine-year-old daughter, Emily (Dakota Fanning), and relocate to a rambling house surrounded by spooky woods. Emily's therapist — Callaway'...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
105 mins