constant chills

Rating: 9/10 (6 August 1999)

i stayed away from reading any reviews for this movie, so that i would be able to go into it unbiased. i only knew that every time i saw the commercials, i got the heebie-jeebies.
from two minutes after the movie started, i had the unexplained goosebumps. nothing was shockingly scary, the movie just creeped me out. the story was not dragged out, not overloaded with unforseen twists and turns. the haunted child is completely believable, and is mainly responsible for conveying the creeps to me. i found myself sympathizing with him as a nonfictional human who really was haunted by real ghosts. i remembered how scared i was as a child when an unexplained noise at night freaked me out, and i realized this poor kid must be terrified a million times beyond my level. that spooked me out even more.
i won't go into the ending, except that i thought it was quite startling, and well hidden. it was coming, you just didn't know it was coming, unless maybe you were really looking hard for it. go see this flick, it is well worth the high price of admission.