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I will give every film a go. Even if it looks rubbish I will watch until the end and then make my mind up. This film is a definite one time only viewing and I was so disinterested watching it I found my mind wandering. But I stuck with it as always.

The story was dull, the actors were boring and characterless and whole film was totally disappointing and dull. A film to be forgot before you've even finished watching it.

I won't bore you with the story because the description on here always gives it. Once you've read the description stop there.

If everybody had died the film would still have been dull.

Avoid and save your time, and money.

Two Australian men introduce three American backpackers to the legend of Lemon Tree Passage, where a ghost warns young drivers to slow down.

After seeing the ghost, they uncover a force that haunts the area, and starts to shroud them.

Isolated and miles from home, the tourists find themselves caught in an evil force much more hideous than the stories that have been told....

What could have been a nice little Antipodean horror movie, gets bogged down by it's own cleverness, and poor acting from the cast.

It starts off well enough, two parties on the beach exchange stories, and go on to pursue one of the stories, but instead of going down the straight horror 'gorenography' route, which would suffice for a low budget movie, the makers have decided to be clever and do something a little different.

sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and this is a prime example of the latter.

When you start to question a movie, and find yourself saying 'I would have settled for a below par I Know What You Did Last Summer', which this sets itself up to be, you know you are losing interest rapidly.

What we get is a twist on the myth, the original story is wrong, and we get a sort of weird Woman In Black revenge film.

Which bored me senseless, mate.

We really have not watched many movies that would score as low as a one star, yes some two or three total. However, this one takes the cake! Either the entire film crew and their families contributed to the ratings or they were all paid. This entire movie was taped in the woods, nothing else no other towns, scenery or anything. Nothing but trees and a few cares where the light would flash at them and then go off. Some girl and guy go into the woods to "make out" and later she comes out alone. He is no where to be found. Then some guy is locked in a trunk dead then disappears. Lots of woods, crying, screaming and complete nonsense. My husband and I watched thirty minutes and then stopped it. I started to watch the rest and it went no where. Don't even bother. We could've made this movie in our backyard!

Though this review contains spoilers, they appear on the OVERALL section of it.

PLOT 4/10 - Regardless of the overall story -- which was actually interesting, the plot tends to become confusing.

SOUNDTRACK 4/10 - Nothing special. That thriller feeling is kinda missing from the movie.

SPECIAL EFFECTS 6/10 - I'll give it a 6, only because not too many effects were used and most of those used seemed OK while on-screen (we can't forget this is a B-movie).

ACTING 3/10 - Mostly shallow.

OVERALL 4/10 - Those seeking horror or thriller aspects might get disappointed: this movie is not scary by any means. The overall plot seemed fine, but it got complicated at the end and it seemed that they kinda rushed the finale in, as if they couldn't keep going with what was happening or couldn't give it a better explanation. Finally, also, somethings are left unexplained and even confusing as to why things are happening that way. If you're in for a B-horror flick that keeps your attention until the very end, making you wonder things, but has a strange explanation to the facts, this is the movie.

OK, I agree. They should have gone for the urban legend story. It was all a bit predictable. Never the less the acting actually made it worth watching it. The scenery was fine, but the story itself was a bit confusing. I usually don't spoil, but in this case I put some questions/notes down that might be a tiny bit spoiling. Its just that I hope the director of this film will take in account what ordinary film lovers think.

I didn't get the legend to murdered woman line. I think the legend was not needed. Gave it a weird twist that didn't fit. Its a revenge film. So why were the teens killed that had nothing to do with it. I did get the possession part, but killing the girl and her brother didn't make any sense. I think if a ghost goes ballistic, they all should die. But that's me. The part in the middle where the woman was raped (was she actually raped?) was chaotic with a bit too much unrecognizable and blurry scenes. It didn't clear anything up and only the producer and actors probably knew what was going on, because they had the script. I didn't. So I had no clue what was going on.

Anyway, end good all good. Not the kind of film I would watch again. As I said, the acting was above average with a couple of nice scenes that could have been different so the logic would kick in.

I gave it a 5. It wasn't horrifically scary, but the acting was fine and the scenery was good. I've seen worse.

Please learn from it.

Lemon Tree Passage had so much potential. And I'm not completely certain that it still couldn't be fixed. It would require a lot of editing but it could be done. I really liked the premise and I'm interested in learning more about the phenomenon. However, the movie fails to really capitalize on it and resorts to a rather convoluted supernatural revenge story. There will probably be spoilers as it will be hard to explain where the movie mistepped.

The American tourists, Maya, Amelia and Amelia's brother Toby, bump into the Australians - Geordie and Oscar, on the beach. They all decide to party together and, of course, start telling ghost stories. This is where the tale of the motorist comes into play. They all go to see it, then spend the night with the Aussies.

This leads to various supernatural shenanigans happening. And this is where it gets weird and convoluted. We start getting flashbacks to an assault committed by three unknown men. This ghost possesses Maya (for some unstated reason), kills Amelia and Toby (again, for unstated reasons) and wants to kill Geordie to get back at Sam, one of the men that killed the girl. Fairly simple, yeah? If they had kept to this story flow it would have been so much better.

But, then you add in the original urban legend with its accompanying story of the killed motorist and a random male ghost that pops in briefly and it all starts to get very muddled. And the male voice is definitely not the voice of the female ghost as it specifically calls her by name. Who is it? Who knows. It could be the ghost motorist but there's nothing to tie the two deaths together.

The dialogue, pacing and character interactions are pretty good. They are stuttery and a bit awkward but that makes it a bit more realistic to me. Events and reactions make sense to the scenes they are in. Then they go back to Lemon Tree Passage and the movie falls apart. Oscar goes missing and the Americans go to look for him while Geordie, who, you know, lives there, sits in the car with Maya. Now, maybe I'm just not ballsy enough to go traipsing around Australia after dark but knowing some of the animals they've got there you couldn't pay me to step two feet from that car at night. After that the story starts to go to pieces and starts losing focus.

I think that if it were trimmed down to keep out the extraneous driftwood it would be decently enjoyable. I thought the actors did well and despite some unrealistic dialogue later in the movie, seem to give it their all. The emotions they portray feel right for the scenes. Even if their actions are...odd.

I felt like they could have done great in keeping to the original motorbike crash that was the urban legend. The "ghost gets revenge" has been done a lot better and felt almost like an afterthought.

All in all it was ok but it could have been so much better.

As someone who grew up in the area and actually has witnessed this phenomenon, this movie does not even come close to it. For starters the road that this happens on is called Cabbage Tree Road inbetween the suburbs of Williamtown and Salt Ash on the way to the Tilligerry peninsula in which Lemon Tree Passage is the 3rd and last suburb of a 1 road in and out of town. The legend as we know it is that a motorcyclist that died in an accident by being run off the road by a car late one night, haunts that section of road by a ghostly apparition that appears in the form a lone headlight that chases cars at night. My family & friends have witnessed this on many occasions. My main annoyance is when they claim "TRUE" then please, please make it as accurate as possible!!!! Oh and this movie sucked on so many levels.