Spirit Trap

2005 "There's a thin line between life and death."
4.4| 1h31m| R| en
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When five young students move into an old unoccupied mansion an inexplicable chain of events is set into motion as a mysterious spirit clock begins to tick again. As the story unfolds, revealing each student's dark secrets, the boundary between the real world and the afterlife is no longer clear. Will they find a way to escape or will they be trapped with the spirits forever?

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Buffronioc One of the wrost movies I have ever seen
XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.
Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Theo Robertson I found this terminally boring . In its favour SPIRIT TRAP has a distinct lack of gore . The down side is that it is trying to concentrate on mood and atmosphere in order to hold the audience attention here it totally fails . Director David Smith thinks mood and atmosphere is entirely confined to shooting everything in very poor light and throwing the occasional loud noise in . Big mistake and no offence to Mr Smith but it's hardly surprising that his career didn't take off after this . A few hours earlier I had seen a short film from 2011 called FOXESby the Irish director Lorcan Finnegan which had me disturbed and compelled in equal measure and strictly speaking that wasn't in fact a horror film per se but the oppressive atmosphere via music and cinematography was crushing and wish I'd seen that sort of dread realised on screen here . With hindsight another problem is casting Billie Piper in the main role . I can understand the thinking of " Oh let's get an up and coming name who will be very cheap and who might have a big future in front of her " but the problem is she'll always be remembered as Rose Tyler from DOCTOR WHO . The problem is compounded by Piper's character having a shock plot turn involving a revelation about her mother and all sorts of images involving Rose and Jackie Tyler flashed through my head which constantly took me out of the film . A film I hasten to add that contains no sympathetic characters and is fairly uninvolving to start with
loopydalolo 'Spirit Trap' This movie severely disappointed me. I felt it wasted a lot of time with stupid and pointless story lines. It was very unclear on which story line it was on, which were the main ones, which had nothing really to do with the movie and finally it was horribly acted.The first story line that I thought lead nowhere and wasted the viewers time is the one about Nick and his late brother Sam. This story line did play a prominent part throughout the movie until the end when it just stopped. There was so solution or resolution. It just disappeared. I found this unfortunate as there was so much that could have been done with it. It could very easily have escalated into an exciting storyline and have contributed hugely to the main plot. Needless to say it did fit in with the overall theme of the movie.I quickly became confused with the main plot because again, it was solved. There was no result. How was Tom a killer? We are left to imagine his history. Fair enough, we are told that drugs are involved but that is all. Although we are only left to our own devices for about half of the movie until he kills his girlfriend, Adele.I thought that it was badly acted. I like Billie Piper and Sam Troughton but they did not perform well in this movie. They really disappointed me. I felt I was watching and amateur movie that was made as a college assignment or something to that effect.Overall, I felt this movie was a waste of a storyline, a waste of actors, a waste of time and ultimately a waste of a film!!
Darthad I thought Spirit Trap would be rubbish, as other British horror films were. However Spirit Trap was packed full of anticipation, suspense and action. The acting was rather good for low key actors. Known actors such as Luke Mably's acting was a bit dodge compared to his performance in Dream Team. Sam Troughton's acting was better than this acting in Alien V Predator. Unknown actors such as Emma Catherwood and Russian singer/actor Alsou performances were rather good in the roles. However Billie Piper's acting was not as good as it was in Dr Who, but she managed to pull off the lead role in this movie.The storyline and script were both excellent and really made this film, however there was a bit too much crammed into this film for the time allotted. The location and scenery were rather good as well and the make up and costumes.This movie for me was a cross between House On Haunted Hill and Long Time Dead with all the added wow and suspense factor. I also enjoyed the twist in the movie and it will keep you on the edge of you seat. I watched this movie with my sister and she also thought It would be completely rubbish and she really enjoyed it (but she don't want to admit it). As a keen horror movie fan I have seen crap ( Ghost Watcher ) and excellent ( Freddy V Jason ) horrors and I would recommend people to give this film a chance because I will change your life. I hope to see these actors in leading roles in the future.
a-n-g-e-l-1 this movie is really a waste of time. the plot(if you wanna call it that) is ludicrous at best and at times painfully stupid.there are elements that could easily make a really enjoyable movie(old house, locked doors, doomed lovers) but everything original or interesting is either soon discarded or just not explained at all. also i couldn't help but feeling i already saw the same storyline in a number of movies, maybe thats just because the ending was so terribly predictable.the acting is laughable, and involuntarily funny... i haven't seen any of the actors in any other movie, but they can only be better than this stinker.how anyone would invest money to produce movies like this one is beyond me...the only thing good was the song during the end credits...therefore my rating: 1