A pop singer, her son, and her psychiatrist boyfriend move into a new house together. The problem being that the house was formerly owned by a slave plantation owner who was cursed by his slaves. The singer is plagued by strange, increasingly horrifying hallucinations of happenings in the house. Her son is being haunted by legions of pidgeons and her boyfriend is becoming more and more angry and aggressive.
The film as a whole is pretty uneventful until the closing 15 minutes. Sure there is a spook here and there. But the majority of the movie we're just watching these people go to work and school. Parts of all this are relevant to the plot and some aren't. Yeah, the singer woman was a patient of the psychiatrist before they started dating. Does that mean we need to see him treat a criminally violent patient that's unimportant to the actual story? Yeah, the song written by the main character is the same song written by the slave trader. Do we really have to see her shooting a music video so many times?
I kinda wonder if the whole reason this movie was made was to promote the song the main protagonist sings. She's working on a music video for this song throughout the movie, the slave trader plays a piano version of it, and the song plays over the ending credits. This song is everywhere in this film and it's an awful song. Take it from a guy who loves 80's music when I say that it sucks.
For as boring as the first hour of the movie is, the final moments are equally insane. The film loses all control during it's climax. It's as if the director just said "fuck it"! Nothing makes sense at all. The main characters are suddenly traveling through time, locations, teleporting, and transforming into monsters. Through all this chaos we're treated to some decent special, if not a little cartoony special effects. Check it out for the special effects but try not to put too much thought into it.
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