The Attic (2006)

Good idea lost in the noise

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I'd give this a zero out of 10 vote if I could. Elisabeth Moss is a good actress, but this was a horrible vehicle for her early talents. The story line is never fleshed out or developed in any way - it's almost as though the creators of this film found bits and pieces of other stories on the cutting-room floor and thought, "Oh, I'll just toss this in there too!" - that's how disjointed and undeveloped this whole story is. It never makes sense.Don't bother unless you want to laugh all the way through at how ridiculous it is.

You can read most of this before the spoiler I'll tell you when The spoiler is coming because it seems people didn't get the ending But before that This movie wasn't as bad as the drama queens make out It was okay but it was predictable Why it did its best to trick you guessed it from the beginning Which was disappointing but overall it wasn't bad it wasn't great but it wasn't bad I've seen worse now as for the story a family moves into a new house With a deadly history Emma (Moss) has a strong aversion towards her family's new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also start to Act strange and unhappy The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously. Emma sets out to find out what's happening in the house and she believes the Attic Holds the key .........................................Okay here comes the spoiler ............................................... Okay here is the spoiler don't read past here if you don't want to know the ending And the meaning here we go........................................Emma is convinced that someone or something is haunting her, and she refuses to leave her house until she can piece the puzzle together, with the assistance of John Trevor (Lewis), a sympathetic detective. Eventually, Emma suspects her parents of hiding skeletons in the closet from the family's past and practicing magical rituals using symbols Wicca seemingly stole from satanism. As the clues pile up, she discovers that she once had a sister named Beth, who died twelve days after Emma was born. Emma realizes that this identical apparition may actually be Beth returning to life. To get revenge for her death Emma witnesses Beth kill her brother, and the police suspect it was really Emma. John Trevor comes to the rescue when Beth is trying to strangle Emma to death and leaves her with a gun. Convinced her parents got rid of her sister due to her being restarted She becomes convinced her parents are drugging her after coming down stairs And seeing her parents placing something in her drink She suspects that they are trying to kill her and murders both her parents. With the gun at point blank range .... When the police arrive, she tells the cops what happened the cops Don't believe her John Trevor enters dressed as a paramedic She tells John yo tell the cops what he knows and saw He says he doesn't know what she's talking about and claims he's just a paramedic Emma threatens "John Trevor", with the gun he gave her. As she points the gun at Trevor, she is really pointing the gun at herself, Trevor isn't really there you see it's the house Making her see Trevor and she's pointing the gun at her head but the house has her thinking its a John Trevor and when she pulls the trigger, she kills herself.The police later discuss the incident, and Emma's former psychologist explains that Beth and Trevor were only in her mind. Another officer mentions that the previous owner of the house mysteriously died. The psychologist says that houses do not kill people, but in this case it did. The film ends as new family looks to buy the house. As a young girl about Emma's age explores the attic, "John Trevor", now a real estate agent called Ron, appears behind her and says they will be seeing a lot of each other.What's it mean simple Emma wasn't crazy the house was possessed And the house was making Emma crazy by seeing John Trevor Hence the girl at the start of the movie that was a victim And the girl at the end was a new victim the house does the same thing over and over again with different female victims leading them all to insanity and suicide The only thing I wasn't a hundred percent on was if the house or Emma killed her brother That was the only thing I couldn't workout I thought it was Emma anyway there you go

Elizabeth Moss delivers a performance that while uneven manages to capture your attention. The pacing of the film at times is a bit slow thanks to director Mary Lambert, at the same time she manages to use some interesting elements adding to the mood of the film. Made on a shoe string budget all in all I thing everyone but attempted to make the best of it all sadly John Savage a veteran low budget actor just phoned it in if you catch this like I did for free online you won't be disappointed, yes there are some uneven and poor performances yet it tries to rise above itself and though not completely successful still manages to bring you along for the ride. Enjoy

well if you haven't watched the movie then i suggest you shouldn't have to. but if you wanna know how bad the movie's plot is,then go ahead, "amuse" yourself and compare it with other horrendous films that you have watched. you see, the movie makes us presume the house was haunted, and then they completely made a u-turn towards the end and made it appear that the girl was crazy. and then they added the "wicca" angle that is not at all related to the plot. if the girl was really crazy, how come before they moved into the house,there was another girl that was killed under the same circumstances? now that couldn't be the girl's "twin", right? and now the most confusing part of all... who or what is the guy detective/nurse/real estate agent? is he a real person? with multiple identities? or a ghost that has something to do with victimizing every young female in the household? (towards the end of the movie you can see him talking to his next victim) that really leaves the viewers (this one at least) thinking about it after the credits have stopped rolling. so overall, the film BADLY needs to be rewritten! they should have hired experienced writers, not just some newbie! coz the actor that played frankie is also the one that wrote the script for the movie. my verdict? a movie that COULD have potential if it was done by a professional scriptwriter. a below average movie.