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Michael Stokes (writer)
Release Date:
1 March 2007 (Russia)
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Tagline:
You can bury the past... but sometimes the past won't stay buried.
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A young beautiful but stressed out children's writer seeks out a holiday in the country but becomes the lead character in a supernatural mystery she must solve to save her life full summary | add synopsis
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A poor and unoriginal re-tread of common themes
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Gabrielle Anwar | ... | Claire Holloway | |
| Justin Louis | ... | Noah Pitney | |
| Forest Whitaker | ... | Geoffrey Hunt | |
| Peter MacNeill | ... | Philip Manville | |
| Niamh Wilson | ... | Little Claire / Rose | |
| Joe Dinicol | ... | Brendan Manville | |
| Brooke Johnson | ... | Mercy | |
| Kenner Ames | ... | Ernie | |
| Jessica Greco | ... | Teen Mercy | |
| Ryan Giesen | ... | Teen Ernie | |
| Jonathan Payne | ... | Teen Pitney | |
| Bill MacDonald | ... | Dr. Wells |
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Marsh (USA) (DVD box title)
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Rated R for violence, disturbing images and some language.
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Greece:90 min | Canada:92 min | Argentina:92 min
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Continuity: The cracks in the mirror are much different from when Claire first smashes it and when Hunt is examining it.
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Geoffry Hunt:
People 're weird. They die... they get weirder.
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References The Shining (1980)
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Lost In Time
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***Contains Spoilers*** I can't quite believe the previous review. I have also just seen The Marsh at London's Frightfest and I and my friends were wholly unimpressed.
It feels like another film in a long line of by-the-numbers supernatural thrillers that have come out of Hollywood in the last five years such as Stir of Echoes, Hide and Seek, Secret Window, The Sixth Sense, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Skeleton Key, The Mothman Prophecies, Bless the Child, The Forgotten, The Others etc, etc (Some of these films are quite good, but you get my point)
I have become very bored of creepy houses (this one was particularly un-imaginative) creepy cornfields, creepy little girls in night dresses, creepy dolls and scarecrows, creepy children's drawings, creepy children's songs, windows blowing open in gusts of wind etc, etc
It is also frustrating when EVERYTHING vaguely frightening is accompanied by a thunderous drum beat, even things like a shot of a child's teddy bear hitting the floor during a flashback! This device seemed to be the only means of creating any scares.
While this film was very professionally made it was very well-worn and tedious, with a series of flashbacks and revelations about something terrible which happened in the protagonist's past. The set in particular was not good and most of the flashbacks centered around a stained glass window in a door which was entirely modern and looked like it could be bought in any home improvements store.
The ultimate villain-ghost that is finally revealed to have triggered the events is actually just a rather misguided and pathetic character so when they came over all demonic at the end it rang really hollow for me.
The events themselves which triggered the haunting were, once again, rather unimportant yet predictable and wholly unoriginal.
A by-the-numbers money spinner in my opinion