Jess’s teacher inexplicably gives her and her friends a one of a kind ancient map to use on their ghost expedition. The group is visiting houses rumored to be haunted. Since the homes still have doors, windows and trimmed grass, I kept waiting for them to get arrested for breaking and entering.
At the first house, something is moving in the window. If you don’t own a house and something is moving in it, don’t go in. It could be the owner or a squatter. But in this case it’s something supernatural which sends them running out of the house. Will we see what it is? No, we will not.
While deciding where to go next, one of the girls says it should be somewhere more exciting than the last place. She offers no opinion on what would be more exciting than a ghost.
They pull up to a house where no one is home, find a key and decide to stay the night. What the heck? The next day they stop for a meal at a local diner, and are warned to keep away from the Indian graveyard. We’re fifty five minutes in and the only thing that has happened is an off screen ghost. Later we’ll see Native American spirits while the group gets high near a lake.
There is a side plot about Jess’s father seeing a doctor due to a serious illness which is never identified. But it does cause him to have visions while asleep and a fear that Jess is in danger. Joe Estevez plays the doctor, who is never onscreen with the patients he’s counseling.
There are scenes that go nowhere and end abruptly. The time line is also in question when at one point, Jess’s family is concerned because they haven’t heard from her. Didn’t she just leave? Also when father has an emergency, Jess’s mother is asked if she wants to ride along in the ambulance or follow them to the hospital, she responds, “I don’t know where my girls are.” So she’s going to randomly drive around trying to find Jess, who is on a trip, and her sister who is also driving around looking for Jess. Your husband is being transported in an ambulance, good god, go with him and call your kids on their cell phones. Don’t just randomly drive around the state.
Questions you’ll ask are plenty. Why does Mike think getting high is a personality? How did Jess’s mother locate them? Why didn’t her mother call her cell? Why did they steal a dog? Who’s dog is it? Why does no one listen to waitresses who warn them of local areas where bad things can happen?
Ridiculous dialogue:
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| Joe Estevez as the doctor who isn’t on screen with his patients |
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| The patients who were definitely in a different room |
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| Let’s just break into this empty house. It’s fine. |
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| Her parents give her their SUV for an overnight trip. |
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| No one’s home? Let’s stay here. |
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| It looks like their muscles are drawn on, which is odd since they seem to be in good shape |
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| Sure, we’ll just drive up on the lawn |
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