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Excellent but underrated film

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I don't know what everyone is screaming about this film being horrible. The acting was pretty good, the story line was GREAT (the twist reminded me of Skeleton Key), and the effects were ample and done well. I would definitely watch this again. This kind of movie is one that you have to watch and pay VERY close attention, because the director and the writers threw facts and background at the viewer bit by bit, slowly, building up to the final climax. The only issue I had was that this is a British film, and I had a bit of a hard time understanding some of the dialog, especially when spoken quickly. Other than that, I liked it. I liked the story and the house, I would LOVE to have this house, just as it is.

'Spirit Trap' This movie severely disappointed me. I felt it wasted a lot of time with stupid and pointless story lines. It was very unclear on which story line it was on, which were the main ones, which had nothing really to do with the movie and finally it was horribly acted.The first story line that I thought lead nowhere and wasted the viewers time is the one about Nick and his late brother Sam. This story line did play a prominent part throughout the movie until the end when it just stopped. There was so solution or resolution. It just disappeared. I found this unfortunate as there was so much that could have been done with it. It could very easily have escalated into an exciting storyline and have contributed hugely to the main plot. Needless to say it did fit in with the overall theme of the movie.I quickly became confused with the main plot because again, it was solved. There was no result. How was Tom a killer? We are left to imagine his history. Fair enough, we are told that drugs are involved but that is all. Although we are only left to our own devices for about half of the movie until he kills his girlfriend, Adele.I thought that it was badly acted. I like Billie Piper and Sam Troughton but they did not perform well in this movie. They really disappointed me. I felt I was watching and amateur movie that was made as a college assignment or something to that effect.Overall, I felt this movie was a waste of a storyline, a waste of actors, a waste of time and ultimately a waste of a film!!

There is a sad irony behind Billie Piper's character in this rather silly and uninteresting horror film and that is that she is a drama student, ie; she studies acting and must be good at it to pass. Just who is Billie Piper anyway? I'm sure independent filmmaker David Smith couldn't believe his luck when a name and a face as well known as Miss Piper's suddenly found its way to his latest project; his first and so far last directorial effort. But then again, the fact Billie's even in it gives it a now unwanted level of attention and that is due to the acting career Piper has had since.So Piper plays one of five students who have moved into a mysterious house because of its close proximity to a local college. They are Adele (Catherwood); Tom (Malby); Nick (Troughton); Tina (Alsou) and Piper herself playing the role of Jenny. Each character is to such a basic level that to say they adopt the typical teenage embodiment in a low grade, rental horror-come-slasher is a no-brainer. Adele is dressed up in high heels and a black dress: she's dangerous, loose and seductive; Tom is a fast talking and egotistical drug dealer whose previous life events are hinted at in the film but not revisited; Nick is disappointingly given a 'geek' persona tag and acts throughout in a very innocent and at times surprised manner with Jenny the one character who perhaps elevates herself beyond level one to level two. She is established to be independent through asking questions early on and her background (or perhaps her mother's) is relevant later on.But the characterisation in the film is so off colour that another former singer turned actress (Alsou, who plays Tina) is so non-existent in the film that it does not even need her; bar to show up nearer the end and pull some stern looking faces as the tension is supposedly cranked up – I don't think so. And so with this premise of five kids in one location for the odd night, Spirit Trap begins its slow and steady downward journey into familiar territory. By the end of the film we will have predicted a couple of jumps or maybe suffered one at most; we will have seen a couple of dire reaction shots; we will have witnessed the mutilation of a black man and we will have identified formula after a very brief while.Spirit Trap is really a mere horror thriller that takes place within the walls of a single location but the huge, huge flaw here is that the location is instantly open to being left. When we think of some contemporary examples of this formula, we might think of Alien, The Thing or Predator – each example embodying codes of the thriller, horror and possibly science fiction. Spirit Trap does this but in Alien, the characters had to stay and fight what they were fighting; likewise with The Thing and Predator, there was no way out of the snowy base nor was there the Brazilian jungle. In Spirit Trap, nothing is stopping any of its characters from leaving the house.But this sort of logic is dead in Spirit Trap, proof that the horror genre at least in British film will not be challenging the two dominant genres of comedy and gangster anytime soon. Jenny talks to an apparent landlady or accommodation officer before she arrives at the house and yet after a few hours of being at the house with the others, nobody shows up – isn't Jenny or anyone else suspicious? Secondly, Jenny actually goes to the college the next day for classes and stops off at the accommodation office but it appears the college don't even have an officer – this should've been enough to convince her to get up and leave. But hang on, the next instance she wakes up. Was it all a dream? Perhaps there is an accommodation officer after all and she must go and check in the 'real' world. Either way, things are made to look like they're answered but nothing ever actually gets achieved.Then there are the scenes involving eerie phenomenon's. Throughout the film's duration, people will see ghostly reflections in mirrors; wet footprints in their bedrooms leading up to their beds; items will mysteriously change places and bizarre spirit devices will literally write out words and yet nobody does a thing about it. Nobody informs anybody else of these events, nobody brings them up when Jenny begins to have visions later on and the character's reactions are very muted when these odd events occur. The film is very anti-climatic, Nick spends the film looking surprised; Jenny spends the film puzzled whilst threatening to start a relationship with Nick; Tom and Adele's relationship takes a turn for the worse when their drugs sub-plot opens up in a pointless and uninteresting manner and the film becomes at the very end a familiar routine of slasher, chase, slasher. Spirit Trap is a film with gaping logic, seriously one dimensional characters and comes with an electronic soundtrack - and I'm not talking about a Halloween style theme, either.

I did watch all the way through. A loose remake of the original "House on Haunted Hill" with scenes added that were stolen from other films, "Reservoir Dogs", "The Omen", "The Exorcist", "Basic Instinct", "An American Werewolf in London" and every movie where teenagers play with a ouija board. However don't get the idea this mess approaches any of those, even Basic Instinct. Very very poor direction. Scenes were shot with no idea how to raise tension and action sequences (for example people hopping up into an attic from a low stepladder like they were bouncing off a trampoline) were in general deplorable. Two of the actresses, Piper and Alsou, simply can't act. Alsou is particularly amateurish and destroys every scene where she opens her mouth. The idea of the movie is actually interesting, but a poor script, direction and acting result in a nearly complete dud.