I've been wanting to watch this movie for awhile. I love creepy ghost kids and their attempts to reach out to the living, plus check out that movie poster! It's creepy as hell. I was hoping the movie would live up to the promise of its poster.
The movie is about a woman who separates from her jerk of a husband and goes to live in the creepiest house ever with her young daughter, named Helena. We see at the beginning of the movie that something horrible happened in the house, but we're not sure what. Soon Helena is acting strange, collecting teeth for the tooth fairy she insists visits her every night. Soon very bad things start happening, and the mother is at a loss how to stop the evil and save her daughter.
When you really think about it, the whole tooth fairy story is messed up. Here kids, take your cast off body parts and sell them to this creature that breaks into your room at night. Weird. Add to that how painful dental problems can be, and how vulnerable we are when our teeth hurt (and while a dentist is working on them) and most of us obviously have issues with fear of something bad happening to our teeth. Movies like "The Dentist" have been exploiting this fear for years, and now this movie comes along with its poster showing a girl with a bloody mouth and ripped out teeth. Talk about horror.
This movie is full of shadowy imagery, jump scares, and a backstory that is truly messed up. Plus the mother is likeable, so I felt bad for her as her world started to fall apart. Her daughter is kind of a brat, but I still didn't want her to die, and the actress who plays the little girl does a good job being creepy as hell.
I really don't know why so many people didn't like this movie. It's a little hard to follow, but the legend and lore of the movie gets more complex as the story goes on and more facts are discovered. There are plenty of twists, even a few I didn't see coming, and even though the main character takes forever to figure out what to do, once she does, there's a lot of bang for the buck. There's a shot near the end of the movie that's so quiet and haunting that it reminded me of one of my favorite scenes from The Exorcist III, and that's saying a lot because that's probably the scariest scene I've ever encountered. The movie isn't perfect, sure, but it works well enough to keep me interested, so I dug it.
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