I love the haunted house genre. Amityville, Poltergeist, The Haunting- you name it. Now here comes a little movie called "Penny Dreadful" in Screamfest LA's film festival at Universal Studios.
Sure, it's another film about a stupid white couple that move into a haunted house, but so what? It works. Mysterious phone calls? Check. Spooky children? Check.
Power outage in the middle of a dark and stormy night? Check. It's all here. But so is Betsy Palmer doing her best Madame Arcati impression as a Greenwhich Village fortune teller.
Kudos for keeping it fast moving and for adding a sense of fun to the proceedings. Incidentally, however, I do remember an old Twilight Zone that had a similar ending, but this film is well done and scary so I don't mind.
Sure, it's another film about a stupid white couple that move into a haunted house, but so what? It works. Mysterious phone calls? Check. Spooky children? Check.
Power outage in the middle of a dark and stormy night? Check. It's all here. But so is Betsy Palmer doing her best Madame Arcati impression as a Greenwhich Village fortune teller.
Kudos for keeping it fast moving and for adding a sense of fun to the proceedings. Incidentally, however, I do remember an old Twilight Zone that had a similar ending, but this film is well done and scary so I don't mind.