Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

pervezmoya If you want spend a good time with your girl/boy-friend watch this movie for fun time. It's a common movie of haunted house, freak characters, bad boys, and move-it-self objects. The plot began typically when a single mother and her son moved on to the creepy house. Then typically the mother hired a baby sister to care her "mute" boy. After that begin strange and rare events who in the develop of the plot has been linked with past stories of the characters and the town. The movie has moments of horror and suspense. Isn't a great plot but it's simple and short movie that gives a surprise ending.

Fella_shibby I saw this on a rented DVD after watching the trailer. Another haunted house film, babysitter in need of money, family disappeared without a trace, house in the middle of nowhere, small town, people staying away from the haunted house, single mother with a child moves in, jump factors, loud sound design n weird things starts happening. One may say that this has been done so many times n that the jump scares n sudden loud noise n cat jumping around is getting monotonous. Well i found the movie decent enuff to finish off but in two sittings. The cinematography was decent, the small town n the isolated house was captured well. The editing was a bit tedious, the script n acting was good but the movie lacked suspense n tension. The jump scares  n ghostly happenings became so saturated that it lost the fear. The loud sound was annoying. The first kill was good, the guy who got killed looked like the bald n bearded version of Matthew McConaughey. There is decent gore towards the end n the thing which stood out was the interesting twist n the reference to Amytiville horror. Unspoken an unofficial prequel to the Amytiville horror.

dcarsonhagy "The Unspoken" is another horror (yawn) movie about, well, ghosts (I guess). It has an overall effect of cold mush okra. It is so hackneyed, so predictable, so non-scary it should be used as an example in an undergraduate course on how to bore an audience instead of scaring them.It opens with a story of what would become legend "The Briar House." It seems that an entire family vanished from the face of the earth never to be heard from again. If my thinking serves me correctly, I would say the cat scared them. Watch this movie, and you'll get the connection.Anyhoo, flash forward to the present, and a single mother and mute son move into the house. Immediately, things begin to go bump in the night. Angela is then introduced as the movie's protagonist. She is played by Jodelle Ferland ("Silent Hill" and "Case 39"). Nearly every word she utters is barely above a whisper, yet she manages to bond with the mute boy. Along the way, however, she is tormented by some local thugs--right out of the Hardy Boys High School--and tries to have a faux lesbian relationship with some boyish girl. The boys need to get back in the house to get their "stash" (I'm sure it was a limitless end of Lego blocks), but I digress.This movie was just plain bad. And the completely unbelievable ending left me stupefied. As in many other movies of this genre, it was as if the writer, director, and producer sat down and said, "Okay; I have NO idea how to end this, so let's just do this." Rated "R" for violence and language.

S. Soma *************************************************************Disclaimer:I must offer to you a confession: I like movies that give me a fright. If the subject is horror I got to see more or I won't be contented all night.-from "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati"Fair warning: I'm biased in favor of movies involving horror, monsters, the supernatural, the paranormal, space aliens, zombies, science fiction, and those Twinkies of cinema, found footage. I would rather drink syrup of ipecac than watch "On Golden Pond", "Places in the Heart", or "Fried Green Tomatoes". I am not William Blake; what you will read here is the foamy-mouthed drivel of Clyde the Village Idiot.While it's true that 97% of the movies within the above listed genres are utter rubbish, I put on garbage bags and it's my hobby to dig through the stinking pile and find the few that are, miraculously, somehow redeemable. So be confident in the knowledge that only the highest quality cultural dreck will receive a positive review.*************************************************************"THE UNSPOKEN" I'd like to reiterate the standard warning: there are definite spoilers in this review. Much of the entire structure of the picture is dependent upon a twist ending and if you want to enjoy it unpolluted by my ramblings, stop reading now.Suppose you took it into your head that YOU were going to write a ghost story. And not only that, you were also determined that your ghost story was going to be completely original. Would you be able to do it? The difficulty is that countless thousands of ghost stories have been written at this point. Coming up with something completely original is going to be a very tall order.Genuinely original stories do happen occasionally. "The Others" was completely novel, to me at least. And since then there have been a few other ghost stories that I have come across using the same basic idea of a perspective shift that made "The Others" fairly unique for its time. But of course, THOSE follow-on's aren't original anymore, are they?"The Unspoken" also tries to be original within the genre of ghost stories. Unfortunately, it doesn't pull it off nearly as well as "The Others". Sadly, its punchline is a little too clever for itself by half.The movie comes out its corner at the starting bell swinging. From the very first frame it's pretty scary and supernatural "stuff", with smears and spatterings of blood sprinkled about for good measure, are happening all over the place. (Man, I would NOT want to have been that cop…) Initially I was very impressed and was rolling along quite well.In fact, everything was going great until the last 10 minutes or so of the movie. It becomes apparent that the supernatural activity is not because of ghosts, but rather because of one of the main characters in the movie. And then we're provided with an explanation of why it is that this character can engage in supernatural activity, and then we are told point blank that none of what has happened is because of ghosts.While I appreciate the effort in coming up with a plot twist that "rationally" explains ghost -like phenomena, this was so poorly done in this picture that it casts a pall on the other 90% of the movie, which was actually fairly scary if you managed to get into the "willing suspension of disbelief" requirement. So poorly done in fact, and so badly set up that it was as bad as a "and she woke up and it was all a dream" copout or a dei ex machina (as more than one was involved).They just pulled this "explanation" from some bodily orifice and threw it at us like a hand grenade. With jazz hands.When even the heroin objects to the pat explanation, the deus making the explanation just says, "oh, you just thought you saw such and such". Wow.In the light of the revelation at the end, if you think back over the movie (or, if you have no life, watch the movie again with foreknowledge of the explanation), there's actually several large plot holes similar to this one. One gets the sense that some desperate, pressured rewriting occurred close to the finish line and we're all hoping you won't notice. And jazz hands.Within the limitations of this genre and the intrinsic barriers to originality, this movie was actually doing pretty well until it got shot at the finish line. Maybe if you just pull the plug on your screen about 10 minutes from the end…?