Maddie, her boyfriend Jake and cousin Izzy go to her childhood home the day before it’s to be demolished. The house has been closed for twenty five years since her mother murdered her baby sister.
Maddie’s come here to try to make sense of things, but Jake is worried because she’s having nightmares and seems obsessed with the number five. Izzy is excited about the possibility of looting what was left behind, but gets upset when the others don’t pay attention when she models her new vintage leather jacket.
Poking around awakens the evil in the house and strange things start to happen. A barking dog keeps them from leaving, no matter what door they try to open. Jake discovers some sort of force field around the house and Izzy gets possessed.
Maddie comes up with an idea the house is the problem and why her Mom went insane. She says a house with the same architecture has been in a number of cities and the families who bought the house all went crazy and murdered each other. I’m not confident in Maddie’s research skills to believe that she could track this down.
While the start of the film has promise, the longer it goes on the more disappointed you’ll be. If the house has been empty for twenty five years, why is it clean? Why does Maddie think a house scheduled to be demolished after 25 years vacant would have a working toilet? Why would they go into the basement to find a window to crawl out of when there are larger windows on the first floor? Why is Maddie convinced the dog is her dog from twenty five years ago? Why do they need to go into the death nursery to flag down a passerby? If indeed the house can move from town to town to find new victims, then why did it sit abandoned for twenty five years rather than strike out on it’s own and find a new family? Why would it let itself be destroyed? Did no one notice when this house appeared overnight? And most importantly if a house suddenly appears, how does it hire a realtor?
Also there is a continuity issue with the caution tape repeatedly being strung across the front porch and then being down again.
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| There is no dust, dirt or spiderwebs after 25 years |
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| The kitchen looks freshly cleaned |
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| Maddie’s childhood toy is still white and clean |
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| Caution tape is up. |
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| Caution tape is gone. |
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