Pros- I always have to give props to any movie that is based/inspired by true events. I also enjoyed the fact that they attempted to make the family as realistic as possible. Alcoholic father, stressed out mother, older son dying from cancer...they didn't attempt to make a picture perfect family OR a deranged one. Just a seemingly normal family. I also thought the film did a good job portraying the hardships and stresses involving having a child living with cancer. They showed the family uprooting themselves, the sickness of the son, and the trials and tribulations the family goes through both financially and emotionally. They managed to insert some history about iron, in that it would contain spirits, and correlated it to the use of iron bars in prison cells.
Cons- It's a ghost story, in many ways, and they really didn't take advantage of any scary pop-up moments. That, combined with the sob story of the son with cancer and the dad battling alcoholism, made it start to feel more like a depressing Lifetime movie than it actually did a horror flick. It's an odd situation, because I can't pinpoint a whole lot that was overtly bad about the film...but it left an odd taste when all was said and done. It was just a very "safe" film and didn't cross any thresholds or push the envelope in any way.
Wrap up- This movie is not bad, just kind of depressing and at times, boring.
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