The tyranist's thoughts
Whew. Where to start. First of all, as of this moment, this movie possesses the record for most skulls awarded a single movie ( Cthulhu Mansion was the previous record holder). That should tell you something, although I must confess that I was a little lenient in my skull awarding since I found that it was more entertaining to award skulls than actually watch the movie.
To spare you the pain here is a more or less complete run down of the film.
A man and woman are arguing in what looks like a train car (there are even train noises in the background). The argument is over an old woman and whether or not her grand-daughter should be contacted. It is implied that something underhanded is happening to make the old woman sick. The woman steps outside (where we find out that it is only an old rail car converted into an office) and calls the grand-daughter. This is essentially the last we will really hear about this subplot.
The grand-daughter gets the message on her answering machine and heads for her grandmother's home. Roll opening credits that involve bad fonts and a lot of genuinely creepy looking dolls. Enjoy it. This is the scariest part of the film. I rewound the credits and watched my favourite scary dolls several times.
There is then a flashback sequence that takes place 13 years before the present. A little girl and her mum go to bed. Somebody comes in and looks at the little girl preparing to kill her and then mysteriously backs off when she moves in her sleep. So he goes in and kills the mum. The girl wakes up, finds her, and screams. Back to the present.
So the girl arrives to find that her grandmother's doctor won't admit the old woman to a hospital and the local judge seems to be running the show. There is also a creepy little man who is the curator of a local museum. Even though no one has died in the present, it is obvious that he is the killer.
She kicks them all out and calls her ex-boyfriend, who is conveniently a doctor, to come down and take care of grandma. She then starts to get obscene phone calls. Don't worry, they are not really obscene, just annoying. She takes a bath while the killer watches from a closet, but seeing as how this is a PG movie, we don't get to see anything.
The boyfriend arrives and commits grandma to the hospital so that now the house is empty except for the grand-daughter. And the killer. Even though there are several blatantly human-generated noises, the grand-daughter doesn't worry. But she gets more obscene phone calls.
She visits the museum for some unknown reason where the audience is given incontovertable proof that the curator is indeed the killer. The young lady doesn't see this. This would be incontrovertable proof that she is an idiot.
More obscene phone calls.
Death, death, and more death. But don't expect gore or even remotely good effects. In the end the girl has gone insane (she killed her ex-boyfriend out of fear) and the killer is uncaught.
There you go. That's really it. Do yourself a favour and don't bother to watch this. I kept wondering if I shouldn't watch it with the fast-forward button pressed. In retospect, I should have.