Rating: PG13
Genre:
Thriller
Theatrical Release: 01/09/2009(USA)
Release Date: 07/07/2009
SubTitles: Espanol/French/Ger
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol/Ger
Sound: DD2/DHMA/DD5.1
Run Time: 89 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Blade II and
Batman Begins scribe
David S. Goyer writes and directs this
supernatural thriller about a 19-year-old girl (
Odette Yustman) haunted by a "dybbuk" (a malevolent wandering soul of Jewish folklore) that was once a young boy ruthlessly slaughtered in Auschwitz.
Casey Beldon (
Yustman) was just a young girl when her mother vanished out of her life. And though
Casey has never forgiven her mother for abandoning their family, she begins to understand why when a tortured ghost begins stalking her by day, and horrific nightmares make her scared of falling asleep at night. Hoping that her spiritual advisor,
Rabbi Sendak (
Gary Oldman), possesses the power to make these awful visions stop,
Casey enlists his aid and gradually uncovers a family curse that stretches all the way back to Nazi Germany. An entity with the ability to possess anyone or anything that it comes into contact with is stalking
Casey from another plane of reality, and it's gaining strength with each new possession. Now, as the curse is unleashed, the frightened girl realizes that her only chance for survival is to close a door that was pried open by someone who was never born, and prevent the force from crossing over into the physical world. Though her sympathetic boyfriend (
Cam Gigandet) and best friend (
Meagan Good) do everything they can to help,
Casey is ultimately left to face this otherworldly horror on her own.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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