Aka The Passing
At the reading of their grandmothers will, her grandchildren discover she’s left the majority of her estate to them. But in order to get it, they need to spend the weekend in the house. Their father is concerned about Elizabeth being there without him, but the lawyer advises the will specifically stipulates only the children can stay.
The lawyer gives Elizabeth the key to a carved box her grandmother insisted she have. When asked where it is, he says she needs to find it. Unlike real life where someone could search a mansion for weeks and never find it, she chances upon it the first day. In it is a cryptic message from grandmother which says since she’s not there to teach her, she’ll have to discover what to do. Couldn’t she maybe have left a clue in the note?
Jack and Ray see this weekend as an opportunity to party and invite some people over. When the couples go off on their own, Cindy starts wearing some of grandmothers jewelry. Josh says they should get rid of grandma’s voodoo stuff and jewelry since Mandy wants it out of there. It’s unclear why Mandy is upset since she’s not related to grandmother.
Weird things start happening in the mansion. Glimpses of people who aren’t in the room appear in mirrors. Something unseen tries to drown Josh, and a weirdo chases one couple through the yard. Mandy decides this is the perfect time to take a shower.
After two of the women disappear, Josh wants to call the cops, but Jake angrily refuses. It’s not clear why but you just know things are going to get worse. The weirdo outside turns out to be a slightly mutated relative named Billy who is being semi-cared for by the caretaker. The movie is told by Elizabeth in flashback while being interviewed by the cops the next day. The main detective is played by Paul Gleason, best known for being the principle in The Breakfast Club.
The movie is confusing. Why didn’t grandma leave the estate to Billy or to Elizabeth with the stipulation that she care for Billy? What is the purpose in requiring the grandchildren stay for the weekend? Shouldn’t there have been a way to get Elizabeth involved without murdering other people and getting on the police’s radar? Why does the lawyer think he and Elizabeth have more than a lawyer/client relationship when they have literally only seen each other once at the reading of the will? And what sort of egomaniac thinks a woman is flirting and inviting him to stay when she literally says don’t ever come here again, only contact me via letter, and then disappears as he’s packing up?
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| Elizabeth’s deer in the headlights face |
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| The door to the bathtub in the mirrored bathroom |
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| Continuity alert - he answers the phone on the left side of the bed |
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| But later in the call, he’s on the right side of the bed |
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