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• Stephen M

  
  It's Halloween 1962 in the small town of Willowpiont Falls, there's a child killer on the loose and - three years on from Peter Weir's <I>Witness</I> - little Lukas Haas still hasn't learned when to keep his eyes shut. Before anybody gets the wrong… More
  It's Halloween 1962 in the small town of Willowpiont Falls, there's a child killer on the loose and - three years on from Peter Weir's <I>Witness</I> - little Lukas Haas still hasn't learned when to keep his eyes shut. Before anybody gets the wrong impression, I really enjoyed this. I just feel that writer/director/composer Frank LaLoggia maybe spreads his talent a little too thinly; that he should have polished the script some more before throwing himself into the multi-tasking. There are several plot points that just don't make any sense to me. Firstly, why the school cloakroom? Even before we consider the killer's Herculean effort disposing of the body and the ludicrous risk run in doing so, the cloakroom is already looking like a most unlikely venue for a murder. Does the school have some special significance for the killer? If so, I must have missed it. Secondly, we are informed that ten years ago the police found blood in the cloakroom and had reason to suspect that the girl was murdered there. Sounds fair enough, until we recall that we saw the girl die with our own eyes - and she was <I>strangled</I>! So where does the blood come from, in sufficient quantity to attract the attention of the police? Thirdly, after an interval of ten years the killer goes back to the scene of his crime to retrieve an incriminating article. Although the script does trouble to explain why he can't afford to wait any longer to do this, my question would be: why has it taken him <I>this long</I> to get around to it? With a handful of nicely judged, kindly/creepy performances, the identity of the killer is not quite a forgone conclusion from the outset; what is inevitable, however, is how he will eventually give himself away. The thing that bothers me about this is that Lukas Haas' character, Frankie, should not need any prompting here; he ought to know who the killer is as soon as this clue is presented to him.

• Anthony L

  
  I really love this film, it?s a childhood favourite of mine and it?s still scary too!

• xGary X

  
  A young boy encounters the ghost of a murdered girl, resulting in his becoming the killer's next target. I must admit I really liked this film when I was younger, but 20 years on it hasn't really stood up very well. Essentially it's The Sixth Sense done in the style of… More
  A young boy encounters the ghost of a murdered girl, resulting in his becoming the killer's next target. I must admit I really liked this film when I was younger, but 20 years on it hasn't really stood up very well. Essentially it's The Sixth Sense done in the style of The Goonies, and it doesn't really work. It definitely has it's moments, particularly the scenes involving the ghosts which are almost Tim Burtonesque, but the rest of the film is amateurishly directed and punctuated with particularly poor narration. The saccharine drenched family element is loaded with sentiment and stereotypes and the race message felt forced and tacked on. The last half an hour is pretty watchable, but more often than not, I found myself hitting fast forward, looking for the "good bits". I must be getting cynical in my old age!

• Dr Blood  

  
  A very nostalgic and beautifully filmed ghost story with fantastic performances from the child actors. Some very scary moments.

• Steve B

  
  "Did you ever see a dream walking? ... Well, I did..." To this day I cannot hear that song without seeing that creepy little dead girl.

• Dannielle A

  
  It was a very unique but also very weird movie. There were many places that I outright screamed aloud. It was pretty scary.

• Joseph E

  
  This is a film that not as much a cult classic, as it just a classic. Just your unapprecciated, run-of-the-mill classic.

• Erin C

  
  Really creepy and strange. Better than I expected.

• Jason R

  
  A young boy becomes trapped in his school's coat closet after two classmates lock him in. As he sits in the dark the ghost of a young girl appears before him, and to the boy's horror he relives the moment the girl was killed. The boy then sets off on a journey to find the… More
  A young boy becomes trapped in his school's coat closet after two classmates lock him in. As he sits in the dark the ghost of a young girl appears before him, and to the boy's horror he relives the moment the girl was killed. The boy then sets off on a journey to find the killer in his small seaside town. Luke Haas has always been one of my favorite kid actors and aside from Witness this is definitely one of his best. While the effects are dated, they are still very well crafted. I loved the story and the bits of comic relief with the young Frankie's brother and grandparents where unexpected but worked very well in the movie. Not necessarily horror, but a really great mystery story.

• Lord N

  
  before I saw this, my mother told me a story about this film. she said, that when she was in college, she and a bunch of her friends went to a Blockbuster or something to that effect, and asked the guy working there, "what are some really great films that no one has heard… More
  before I saw this, my mother told me a story about this film. she said, that when she was in college, she and a bunch of her friends went to a Blockbuster or something to that effect, and asked the guy working there, "what are some really great films that no one has heard of?" this was one of the films that he suggested. I am glad that my mother came across this one and showed it to us. it was a really great film. we watched it at night which made all the little low budget cheap trills even better. it isn't like some really high tech special effects film that will have you hanging on the edge of your seat sort of horror film. and, to be quite honest, if it was this movie wouldn't work at all. it is just fine the way it is. long story short, I would really suggest this one to anyone who hasn't seen it. it isn't this amazing thing but it is a really nice film. I'm glad I saw it and I liked it a lot. TRIVIA TIME:On the DVD commentary, director Frank LaLoggia says that he got the idea for using the song "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" (which is a significant plot element in the movie) from hearing it in the Eddie Cantor movie Roman Scandals. Actually, this song does not appear in the Cantor film; it was written for the musical Sitting Pretty. Both "Roman Scandals" and "Sitting Pretty" were released in 1933.

• Leo L

  
  Very touching!

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