2008

Director: Joel Anderson

Genre: Supernatural Drama

Do you know when you are going to die?

Can you feel death coming for you, slowly reaching out its hand to take you to another place? 

Is it actually death coming for you, or is it something else altogether?

Do you worry about how your family and friends are going to react to your absence?

Does Alice see her own death? Does she witness her own future corpse coming toward her? Or could it be an elaborate trick? Maybe a cry for help to her family? But could it be possible that what Alice experienced cannot be explained?

Why did Matthew fake evidence of Alice's ghost? Why did he not empathize with his parents and understand the pain it would cause them? How did he not see the real ghost of Alice, hidden right next to his faked images? How did those bruises appear on his body?

Is she really gone?

Is she trying to reach out to her family from beyond? For what reason? In the end, did Alice's mother finally move on from her daughter's death, or was she beginning to ignore the suffering of a soul stuck in purgatory? Was the neighbor responsible for Alice's death?

Are there really any answers to be found?

All we know are the facts. Alice died. Her family grieved for her loss. 

The film feels authentic. The interviews are never overacted or expository. It also excels as a horror film. The slow push ins to photographs and videos of Alice's ghostly image are effectively creepy. The audience is just waiting for one of these images to face us and scream with an evil ghost face. But this never happens. 

The only real scare does not come from an image coming alive. Instead it is quite the opposite, with a lingering, low grain image of a corpse, inexplicably visibly through a cell phone camera. 

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