User Reviews

This movie had some good things going for it. Good cast, beautiful setting, interesting storyline (at least at first), decent pace and a lovely dog (which, btw, in reality would have caught the intruder like a million times).

Problem is they were trying too hard to surprise the viewers that they ended up complicating the story too much to the point it became dumb. Too many unexplained things going on and worst of all was the interaction between the two main characters. I get you have difficulties but who acts like that? The only horror here was this marriage. Sorry to say this but if your marriage is that worse, get out as fast as you can. Seriously.

Also, any one of the "incidents" that occurred in the house would have been enough for them (or at least for the wife) to say "I'm out of here! I'm not staying here another second". But no, she kept staying in house all alone. Go to a friend's house or to the cheapest motel you can find... whatever, just don't stay there! I mean, they did move out eventually right?! Are we supposed to believe they couldn't do it before but after everything that inspired the house's value went up? It's ridiculous!

I wish the makers of this movie cared more about the quality of it, instead of trying too hard to make it new and edgy. A good horror thriller is hard to find anyways so better to care more about quality than originality.

Cast did a good job but the stupid behavior and unexplained questions made it into a bad movie.

6/10

And in case you are wondering here are the biggest plot holes and unanswered questions: Why was this guy in such a bad shape (both physically and mentally)? Why live in the walls for so long? Why didn't the police do a DNA test on the clearly unidentifiable corpse? Why did he kill the sister? Why wasn't anyone looking for the sister? And don't give me that one text message as an excuse because that's nowhere near enough. Why didn't the dog catch the intruder? Like for example when he put the tennis ball on the bed (she was out of the room for exactly ten seconds which mean the intruder was real close by). Dogs would know a stranger is in the house. Why was he harassing and attacking the two in the first place? Why poison the husband and attack the wife? Why try and kill them? What's his story? I can go on and on but lastly (like I've already mentioned): WHY DO YOU KEEP STAYING THERE?? The car, the message on the mirror, the music, the water, the pornography, the tennis ball, the text messages, the photos, the THREE separate attacks, the dog... Do you really need to be chained to a wall before you decide to move out? One, two, maybe three incidents I get but everything? I wouldn't leave the house because the mirror or the pornography because it's hard to make a connection but the tennis ball and the photos of you sleeping?? Come on! It's idiotic!

But hey, thankfully the ending was happy... One month later and they were all smiles. The deaths, the traumas, the financial problems, the marital problems... All went away with a flip of a finger (literally). Laughable!

There was a woman who kept her lover living in an attic for a decade. (See below). This movie did keep me guessing. Not that great, but not so bad to deserve a 1. It kept my attention and I was entertained.

Walburga Oesterreich (née Korschel; 1880 - April 8, 1961), nicknamed "Dolly", was a German-born American housewife, married to a wealthy textile manufacturer Fred William Oesterreich (December 8, 1877 - August 22, 1922), who gained notoriety for the shooting death of her husband and the subsequent bizarre revelation that she had kept her lover, Otto Sanhuber, hidden in the attic of the home she shared with her husband for ten years.

The final "one month later" scene where everyone lives happily ever after was actually almost laughoutloud funny. Ok so it's been one month since your sister(/in law) was murdered, your dog was murdered, and you were stalked, assaulted and nearly murdered by an actual freak monster, in addition to being brought in serious danger/stalked by a whole other, unrelated person. You already had serious marital and financial issues prior and unrelated to this. But it's all good now? Ok Aftermath. Also how did they sell the house and were happily moving out when previously it was an issue that they couldn't because they couldn't afford the financial loss? Surely the house didn't go up in value after EVERYTHING else that transpired? Why is everything solved? Why is no one extremely traumatised, in shock, grieving and broke? Maybe because it was already one month later tho.

Two more things concerning the husband: 1 can we forever get rid of the spouse-not-being-believed trope, especially with the extremely lazy pop psychology "oh she cheated on him so they have Trust Issues". Would that really make him this sceptical that she has paranoid hallucinations and can't tell reality apart from nightmares anymore? Seems like kind of a different league of spousal suspicion. She herself literally showed him a bunch of pictures on her phone, terrified, that someone had taken of her while she was asleep, and he brushed it off with "hmm idk maybe it was your BOYFRIEND" and just left it at that snarky comment. What?!? ... And 2 did he really get into bed with the decomposed body of his wife's sister thinking it was his wife and cuddle up to her. A decomposing body. Wouldn't that smell so bad your neigbours would be throwing up from the smell in their separate homes but ok I'm not a scientist

The psychology behind the final monster of the show was kinda haphazerdly implied and alluded to but not really explained, didn't seem to make a lot of sense and was definitely very very overdramatic but that's fine for the genre I guess.

I don't scare easily usually, but there's nothing like a good home invasion for me. Although it isn't quite as "based off true events" as it portrays, the story is pretty horrifying to watch and the characters feel a lot more realistic than other horror stereotypes.

Would definitely recommend!

This is extremely bad. Like, truly bad. So many questions unanswered, so many unlikely situations, so many plot holes. The dialogues are cringe-worthy most of the time and the acting is crap, the typical low budget acting, when whatever they're saying or doing doesn't feel completely *right*, there's always something off.

Then, inside the wacky story there's the typical hysterical wife and the husband who doesn't believe her (even after he himself having experienced suspicious situations), there's the shrugging off of things that no one IRL would shrug off, there's cops not doing their job and just plainly screaming at the victim, there's a dog that only sometimes decides to alert others about an intruder, there's even a comedic relief duo ffs....

On top of all that, the "intruder" is a damn ninja, fast, invisible, a master of hiding and camouflage and also likes to toy with his victims by opening faucets here and there, jiggling doorknobs, retrieving tennis balls from under furniture, playing vinyl suddenly, causing the occasional thud noise, using other people's mobiles without their consent. But then he's also feral and crazy and incapable of comunícate with words. He manages to avoid a whole camera surveillance system while chasing his victim (who appears in the surveillance footage), but couldn't stay away from a hand held camera places on a shelf and pointed directly at the couple's bed.

This is insulting to anyone's intelligence. And the fact that there's people actually giving good ratings to this piece of trash makes me lose even more faith in humanity.

I mean her sister ignored for days and no one cares....they see and hear things in house and acting like nothing happens...how the freak avoid all the ccv system??Dog was the best actor to a whole movie.

I don't usually write spoiler reviews, but I'm seriously doing this so you don't waste your time like I just did.

The one good thing I'll say is the acting while predictable and cringe at times, wasn't that bad. There were more than couple times where Natalie said or reacted in such a way where I thought "man I felt that".

Now for the bad... To echo what most others have already said, it's the same ol' same ol. Start off like some supernatural entity is causing a disturbance only to find out, nah it's just a plain old human, being weird for an unexplained reason.

Secondly, while the movie was still pretending to be an act of the paranormal, Natalie's sister is "taken" and aside from a fake text that we later learn is clearly from the weird dude in the basement, her disappearance is a complete afterthought. The movie ends a month later, and no one seems to find it odd that Dani has not been seen or heard of since the events occurred.

Then there's the typical detective who instead of doing any actual police work, spends all of his time low key accusing the victim of being crazy or a suspect. Any real law enforcement officer would have found that hiding spot, the first time they reported the house being broken into or very soon after.

This weird dude who hasn't bathed in Lord knows how long, apparently doesn't reek of body order or our main characters have lost their ability to smell. He's also incapable of leaving any trace of dirt in this mostly WHITE clean house.

Once it started coming together that all the weird stuff was an act of a human and not some malevolent spirit, you get overwhelmed with how ridiculous everything is.

Like the motive for this dude to start messing with Natalie to begin with. The origin of the original owners is never fully explained either. Like why nobody noticed or cared that this Otto guy was missing. A house with two homicide victims, isn't combed through from the ground up? Not even when it's being sold? How a malnourished, smelly man with no human contact could somehow be so savvy he evaded any and all camera footage, leaves absolutely no trace of his being around by smell or even dirt. And could move about in such a manner where you can only assume he's not human? What did he eat in the entire time that house couldn't get sold? I could go on and on. But you get the point.

It was all just dumb.

I just cannot watch a movie where the audience is assumed to be a moron and that is what this movie does. Too many plot holes!

I have to spoil this one here, so if you have not seen it, don't read on.

After all the tension and build up, we are to believe that in this spacious open floor plan home, there is a killer living in the walls? Not only did the couple miss this but the audience, too? No! No! No!

Thoroughly not plausible! This killer that cannot comb his hair nor find a toothbrush deodorant body spray or a decent t shirt somehow goes out and gets syringes, rare poisons, food, whips, chains and locks? This smelly guy hides bodies in this house that nobody notices? This is not a CASTLE is it a regular house!

Why? What did I watch? Nothing came together or made any sense. It was like the first half of the movie, with tension and a plot, ran out of budget and a group of third graders came in and just finished off the story with whatever came to mind and in ten minutes the whole movie just got finished up.

This kind of crap should just get scrapped right away instead of finished. Maybe they should have thrown in a satanic velociraptor in the attic just for complete idiocy.... I mean, why not. It had deteriorated to that point anyway.

So u telling me your sister disappears and u don't think about going to the police? Considering she had a problem with drugs in the past the first thing i would consider is that either she overdosed or that something happened. And also what was that ending??? 1 month after ALL OF THAT these people manage to sell a house that before was impossible to sell, the husband suddenly decides that now he trusts his wife, they've lost so much but looks like they don't care at all.

I jumped in after the first 15 mins or so and was told this is a murder movie with a lot of spooky emphasize on the closet. I knew immediately it's likely a person hiding behind the house wall.

I thought the acting wasn't that bad... I mean, I have definitely seen much worse.

Points off for predictability and some doesn't make any sense moments.

What's with the editing here. She's wearing a robe, then a black shirt, then back to a robe. That kind is stuff irks me to no end. Otherwise the movie was okay.

Theres a goth in the attic.

It was so funny to watch and also hard to gauge how the film was supposed to come across to the viewer. Because it was so hilarious. It was like 10 different movies rolled into one. Then that one movie was pushed off a cliff.

At one point, the dog died, I dont think this was even in the script. I think the dog genuinely wanted out of this film and killed itself.

As for the acting. Well there was an over abundance of it. Ive never seen someone actually acting to put across that they are doing nothing. Everyone had exceptional hair. Waking from a long sleep, lip gloss on and hair sitting perfect. The scenes that were supposed to be in darkness (I think?) Where so well lit that when the character lifted a torch, I thought it was a parody movie. The film and every single scene was ridiculous to the point where it made me laugh.

It was like a YouTube movie. Absolutely rubbish.

It started out all right but then you could easily predict all that happened. Unoriginal plot with someone hiding in the walls.

How come every time there's a dog in these movies they have to kill it, and why.

How come no one really cared that the sister was missing and ended up dead?

The ending was underwhelming to say the least.

I started watching Aftermath expecting a haunted house movie and halfway through I found myself rolling my eyes and thinking, yes another movie that starts off as a haunted house movie and ends up being a movie where people are being terrorised by very real people instead. I clocked very early that it was the seller's husband and nearly turned the film off, but decided to stick with it. Then it turned out to be some creepy dude hiding in the house, (as well as the house seller's husband.) Then at the very end, a door mysteriously swings shut.

I think I would have liked this movie a lot more if it had been a haunted house film, but that's me. The problem with this movie is that it was so easy to guess who was targeting the couple who bought the house, although the creepy dude was something I didn't see coming.

The acting was good and there were some very scary moments. It does build up tension but the payoff was easy to see coming.

It's not a bad film, but it's one that I would not bother watching again.

This was really disappointing. I expected some kind of creepy haunted house movie but instead what I got was a low key stalking thriller going through the motions. It's supposedly based on a true story but is so far from the truth as to be make believe. It's another run of the old 'living in the house' plotline which has been done so many times before; if you want to see a good version try the Spanish movie SLEEP TIGHT. Kudos for Ashley Greene and Shawn Ashmore for doing their best with the protagonists but they can't lift this one from the doldrums.

This is not the first movie that the evil actually is a human being hiding in the walls. So it s too easy to predict. But what i actually wonder is that what happened to the lover living in the walls? He seems he lived a pretty normal life to his what? 40 s.? Why he turned to evil? It s like his lover forced him to live there and he lost his mind? Or when the woman chose her husband at the end he lost his mind and killed them both? And if that is the situation it still doesnt make sense that his current mentol situation and his behaviours to the New owners of the house.. Why he killed the Sister i mean?

Still except for the end, not a very bad movie.