Far-fetched, muddled, stupid and meaningless

Rating: 2/10 (29 December 2010)

This movie was pure crap. It started out alright, as long as one believed that it would be an ordinary ghost story. That is: Sharon (the little girl) would have been receiving messages in her dreams from someone who died in the fire in the ghost town - her mother, maybe, or twin sister. Because the ghost wanted some unfinished business put right. That plot could have made an adequate horror movie! But instead, when the mother (Rose) and daughter arrived at the ghost town - the plot quickly turned out completely weird. It simply was too unrealistic, that a sect like that could have existed, without anyone knowing about it, in a modern town (I mean - even before it became a ghost town.) Neither is it explained, how all these people had found enough edible food to last for 21 years, or how they had survived the poisonous fumes...
The monsters are also very odd, and one does not receive any explanation as to what they are, or - if they are humans from the beginning - how they have turned into what they now are. 21 years is much too short a time, for them to be a new mutated species.
There was no explanation of the strange ending either - when the mother and daughter got home, but their husband/father could not see them. Had they died after all, so that they were really ghosts returning home..? Or did they immediately leave home again before the husband woke up - in that case: why? It is not explained! Overall, everything is too muddled, unrealistic and stupid, for one to start feeling for the characters, or even being curious about the end. The special effects and the main actors are good, though, so because of those/them I give the movie two stars instead of just one.