A Scary Treat

Rating: 8/10 (18 January 2013)

Easily the best horror flick of 2012. Makes your heart miss a beat every single time the characters flinch in the movie !! A crime writer Ellison Oswalt, moves into a new house with his wife Tracy and two kids Trevor and Ashley. Going through tough times the family is forced to move into this place with a chilling past. Ellison tries to keep his family aloof of the grisly murders but things take wild turn.
He finds a series of tapes in the attic which he uses for his research, but soon finds out that there is more to it than he can perceive. An unknown identity films the happy lives of normal families only to brutally murder them in their prime. A killing spree spanning around 50 years seems random yet connected. Soon Ellison and his family is haunted by the ghosts of the past. Can he find a way out? Can he connect the dots? Will they live? Find out :)
With an old footage showing four people being lifted off the ground by their neck, with a rope tied to a falling branch, leaving them limp in mid air, the movie starts off brilliantly and sets the tone for the rest of the story to fall into place. It misses out on clarity in some key explanations which would have taken it to a different level altogether, yet its dark and scary.