Review: Haunted

Haunted

Released: 2013

Thriller/Horror

Source: Netflix

Synopsis

This story is mainly about a family who moves into a home where every family member but the mom was killed. The children will haunt the house and try to kill the family who moved there. Meanwhile, the son meets a girl who lives next door and they unleash the deadly spirits in the house. Later, something unbelievable happens.

Review

"Haunted" definitely kept my attention. I'm a super horror fan, so if I thought it wasn't worth watching I would have turned it off within 5 minutes. What I really loved about this movie was the creepy narration of the wife and mom whose family was killed in the house. It starts off as a typical haunted house horror story, but it ends quite differently. I didn't like the ending very well, but I do understand the purpose of why it ended that way. It isn't the typical ending, that's for sure. 

What I wanted the writer and director to do more of was to further develop the story of the girl who lived next door. It seems as if it is very random and I couldn't piece it together. I did like that the story took place in the middle of winter. Most horror stories don't. The atypical nature of it is what's so cool about the story, but it also made things not quite fit together sometimes. I don't want to say a lot because I don't want to give the story away. I would recommend the movie for others to watch.