A Haunting at Silver Falls

A Haunting at Silver Falls

Starring Alix Gitter, Tara Westwood, Steve Bacic, James Cavlo

Directed by Brett Donowho

After the death of her father, Jordan (Alix Gitter) is sent to live with her aunt Anne (Tara Westwood) and uncle Kevin (Steve Bacic).  She never knew her mother because she died when she was five, but Anne was her twin sister. 

Jordan immediately falls for nerdy Larry (James Cavlo), who tells her a story of two murdered girls in Silver Falls decades ago, and Jordan then finds a ring in the woods.  After putting it on she can't get it off, and begins seeing a ghost of a girl.  The ghost helps Jordan unravel the mystery behind her and her twin sister's death, and who was really behind the murders all those years ago.

I seem to have been drawn to murder mysteries by ghost films lately.  This one would've been good if it made more sense, but the director seemed to try to detract the viewer with several red herrings in the film that never come to any cohesive conclusions.  Plus I couldn't get over my personal jokes of how it related to "The Lord of the Rings," where the girl wears a ring and immediately supernatural things begin to happen.  One ring to rule them all!

Anyway, the acting was surprisingly decent, but that's about the only good thing going for it.  There's too many rabbit holes the movie tries to make, but doesn't ever reach any final solutions.  The ending itself is very contrived and really doesn't make sense.  One final thing that bothered me was that Jordan went to live with her aunt, who looked about only two years older than her, and if she was twins with Jordan's mother, then she should be in the Guinness Book of World Records for earliest birth.

My Rating: D+