Young couple Lucy and Anton are headed out for a weekend of
camping in their van when Anton decides to take a new road to the campground.
They find themselves in a run-down village, and he is taken with an old,
abandoned house. Lucy finds the house horribly creepy and unwelcoming, but
Anton develops an immediate obsession with it. Suddenly he’s got their lives
mapped out as B&B owners in the middle of nowhere. Despite Lucy’s
objections, Anton pushes it and they are owners of the decrepit building in no
time. He’s a carpenter, and so able to do the repairs and restorations himself-
no one else is coming and going into the house. Lucy hates the house despite
its beauty, and finds creepy things happening. When Anton leaves for two weeks
to work on a customer’s house, things really break loose. The grand piano
plays, doors open and close, and there are, quite literally, skeletons in the
closet. The past is coming alive, with a vengeance. The story plays out in both
the present and the 1950s.
While the haunting was interesting and pretty well done-
some of it was very creepy!, I wasn’t crazy about aspects of the story. Anton
came across as not caring a bit about what Lucy thought, and just did as he
pleased. Lucy was a very weak character, going along with the flow, being
unwilling to cross Anton. There was also a good deal of repetition. I’d say
four stars.
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