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In addition to the actors' less than average acting (it is after all just a TV movie), the movie tried its best to fit in the Horror genre. However, it was not scary and not even entertaining. The plot didn't seem to highlight where the story was going so it was really, really hard to root for the main characters as they all were just as confused as the audience throughout the whole movie.

The prologue was so disconnected with the story line. It would make audiences wonder if they had missed something. (And it's not worth a minute to find out if they did) The ending was just as confusing. There wasn't any closure to anything in the film. The supporting characters were very inconsistent. I mean really, were they good people? Were they bad? Did they like Eve? Did they hate her? Why were they helping her? And then why were they un-helping her?

There too many flaws in this movie, it was hard to find any good or entertaining moments, but at the end of the day, it is just a TV movie which was recommended for light viewing. So with lower expectations, you might find some novel-worthy story behind the disorganized plot. It's the kind of movie you only want to watch once and then move on with another.

What in the world did I just watch? I read some comments saying this was a horrible attempt on a movie called 'Rebecca'. I've never seen it but based on the reviews I may give it a try to replace the anxiety this movie gave me. It left me with the type of anxiety when a movie annoys you so badly you just can't take it.

So a few questions though there are many plot holes, these three are my top: 1. So if, Ms. Menabar aka Margo was poisoning (darn it forgot her name- the lead) then who was poisoning Margo? Or was she really sick? If sick, then from what? What exactly happened? I'd like a little more back story.

2. Why when Margo was choking the lead, didn't she just say lady look, the reason I wanted to get out of here is because of you. If Margo wasn't doing all that creepy ish to her, then she wouldn't have wanted to go. She had to have know Tom was gonna do what his wife wanted.

3. The creepy town folk. What was up with them? Especially Alice, like one minute you're my friend and the next you hate me? At least the lady in the grocery store was consistent in her feelings of not liking her. Also, first Tom was a cute boy, equally loved as his wife, as they hosted parties etc but then he wasn't accepted? He didn't fit? Make it make sense...I mean I get it but it's just the lack of consistency for me.

4 stars because the lead wrote it and started in it. I appreciate the creativity or lack there of. 4 is kind of generous.

Dreadful film also known as The Inherited. It's a very poor near imitation of the classic 1940 Oscar winner "Rebecca."

In this film, a woman also comes back to the home frequented by her husband and supposed first dead wife and almost immediately, wife #2 begins to experience some of the the symptoms that the first wife had before her illness became deadly.

There is a woman in the town, a part-time librarian, Alice, who gives a new meaning to the term "yenta" by constantly asking personal questions, the housekeeper who in a way resembles Mrs. Danvers in the classic "Rebecca" a friend who really loved the first wife, a sister-in-law who really loved her brother-in-law and is off the wall and other assorted characters.

The film really goes down in quality with people turning out not to be who we thought they were and the usual madness. The ending is really weird and beyond the realm of human comprehension. A very bad, eerie, disorganized film.

"The Inherited" (a.k.a., "Stranger in the House") was a real stinker. Despite the winsome performance of Jenn Liu in the role of Eve, the actress was not served at all by her own screenplay.

Eve grew up without parents, who died in a tragic auto accident. But now, Eve has married Tom Stewart and is thrilled to be moving into his large colonial house in the idyllic town of Isling-on-Hudson. The problem is that the house is haunted, a fact that everyone seems to recognize except Eve.

A shortcoming of the screenplay was in the character of Tom, who was simply not very likable. He was not honest with his new wife about his former life, including his deeply troubled marriage to his first wife Margo Blake. Margo stipulated in her will that Tom would be forced to reside in the Blake house; otherwise, he would lose his inheritance. The fact that Tom never informed Eve about this background should have been a deal-breaker in the marriage.

The narrative is thoroughly confused by the supernatural element of the ghost of Margo Blake, whose presence remains in the house and becomes Eve's tormentor, apparently even drugging her. It made no sense at the end that, after learning about Margo, Eve would bond with her and live seemingly in perpetuity with her baby and the ghost of Margo as companions.

It was impossible to make sense of such creepy characters as Sanders, Mrs. Menabar, Wendy, Alice, Susan Gunnerby, and the long-lost ghost of Margo Blake (who resembles Mrs. Menager too closely). This batch of characters belonged in an Agatha Christie murder mystery. The film might have worked as a satirical version of the haunted house genre. But it took itself far too seriously and turned into an extremely unpleasant film viewing experience.