Some genuinely talented actors took advantage of quick work by appearing in this hideously bad TV movie that is similar to the many Satanistic themed TV movies of the 1970's that were ten times better because of clever scripts and a delightful camp factor. This direct to streaming movie teachers Barbara Hershey as a woman suffering from Parkinson's who goes into a rest home only to find out that there is a very deep, dark secret. She befriended several people including Fran Bennett, Jill Larson and Bruce Davison, yet quickly finds out that there's something amiss of her new friends. She can't convince daughter Katie A. Keane and grandson Nicholas Alexander of what it is, and soon she's hunting through secret rooms and roaming through the woods, only to come upon the truth by complete accident.
Disturbing and agenda driven by Amazon, this film has some very dark messages and is not entertaining at all. The constant banging of severe music every time something intense is about to happen becomes cumbersome after a while, and the performances end up being cliched and ridiculous as the plot develops. Hershey does try to add some sensitivity to the script but she is saddled with a ridiculous looking hairstyle that is not flattering on a 50 year old woman let alone a seventy-year-old one. Nicholas Alexander as the grandson probably gives the best performance.
While it's nice to see Jill Larson of "All My Children" outside of daytime, it appears that she's readapted her old character of Ursula Blackwell of "One Life to Live". Poor Fran Bennett is filmed to look like she's about a hundred here, and this ended up being her last work. Davison plays a truly underdeveloped character, and he gets a very undignified ending involving a demonic presence that is just disgusting to the eye. This would have been more preferable had it starred Morgan Fairchild since she starred in several of those TV classics which would have tied her in from one generation of the genre to another. Hershey just seems out of her element.
Disturbing and agenda driven by Amazon, this film has some very dark messages and is not entertaining at all. The constant banging of severe music every time something intense is about to happen becomes cumbersome after a while, and the performances end up being cliched and ridiculous as the plot develops. Hershey does try to add some sensitivity to the script but she is saddled with a ridiculous looking hairstyle that is not flattering on a 50 year old woman let alone a seventy-year-old one. Nicholas Alexander as the grandson probably gives the best performance.
While it's nice to see Jill Larson of "All My Children" outside of daytime, it appears that she's readapted her old character of Ursula Blackwell of "One Life to Live". Poor Fran Bennett is filmed to look like she's about a hundred here, and this ended up being her last work. Davison plays a truly underdeveloped character, and he gets a very undignified ending involving a demonic presence that is just disgusting to the eye. This would have been more preferable had it starred Morgan Fairchild since she starred in several of those TV classics which would have tied her in from one generation of the genre to another. Hershey just seems out of her element.