Chang Tseng, Colin Foo, Henry O

A young mother and her six-year-old son come face to face with the mysteries of two murders and a great crime against the Chinese community into which they have recently arrived from Shanghai.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Ernie Barbarash

Release Date: April 15, 2008

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DVD Release Date: September 16, 2008

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  • October 26, 2008
    Sarah (Jamie King), Jason (Terry Chen), and their son Sammy (Oey), return to Vancouver for his uncle's funeral. Sammy and Sarah see ghosts and Sammy gets very sick. The movie is about Sarah first realizing what she is seeing, and then finding out what the ghost wants if she is g...( read more)oing to save Sammy.

    The movie is scary enough plus you get to learn a bit of Canadian-Asian history.
  • June 10, 2009
    Not very good.
  • August 11, 2008
    Here is an interesting one! An intriguing story plot. Interesting cast. Definitely worthy.
  • April 14, 2008
    This was really bad! Terrible acting and Vancouver setting was off putting for me and only the first scene and a scene in drug store were at all scare worthy. It had potential as a story and scary film but it just didn't deliver!.
  • June 18, 2009
    It was as I expected, though better than a few of the films released about the same time. At least the story was of some interest.
  • April 20, 2009
    I dont care if they rate the scare as cheap but this movie has a good message, the good thing about it is justice was being served though crime has been done a long time ago.
  • April 17, 2009
    This movie is SO boring it's not even funny. There's literally ONE scare in the entire movie and that scare is very cheap. So there's really nothing going for this movie at all. It's not a terrible movie but I don't know, something was just lacking. There's only one remotely ...( read more)interesting thing about this movie is that it's, supposedly, inspired by true events. Other than that, there's nothing interesting about this movie so you won't be missing out on anything if you decide to skip this movie. At least I watched it on free tv, I'd have been mighty pissed off had I paid to see this.
  • March 10, 2009
    Fairly standard B-movie, but one that seems like the studio got a script, thought it might be able to fall in line after all of the other Matheson/Sixth Sense kids-who-see-dead-people movies, but gave up on it and decided to try to make it for slight DVD and Sci-fi channel rights...( read more). And, for that, it is enough. It starts off horrible, then has a decent middle, then doesn?t do anything but the predictable.

    I will say this, it did give me the first real jump scare in the last 10 or so scary movies, but that isn?t enough to save it. And having Michael Biehn in it for two scenes and neither are important really doesn?t help it win some starts.
  • March 5, 2009
    well, this movie makes you jump a bit :p good story..
  • February 8, 2009
    Very scary.. Interesting that they combine both Asian and western.

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