A brilliant ghost story

Rating: 10/10 (9 August 1999)

Forget "The Haunting" and "The Blair Witch Project". This is hands down the best and creepiest movie of the summer. The acting between Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osmet is phenomenal. Willis has his best role since "Pulp Fiction", and the child isn't a kid who has to look cute and react with a facial expression or a tiny line...this is an actor who has long complex dialogues. THIS IS ACTING!!! Then you have the chills and scares that are more unnerving than any movie I have seen in quite a while, and it's done without being exploitive. On top of that you have a major in-your-face ending that's the biggest twist since "The Crying Game" which will leave you with your jaw on the floor and keep you talking with your friends for hours afterward. This is one brilliant ghost story! Quick. Go see this movie before somebody blabs it to you!!! (***1/2)