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Claire, a
successful children’s books writer, has been
suffering from bad nightmares for many years. One
day, she stumbles onto the house that she's seen in
the nightmares by accident and decides to rent it.
What she doesn't know is that her nightmares are
real, and the spirits inside the house want Claire
dead. Together with a paranormal investigator, she
tries to find out what really happened in the house,
and what is her connection to it?
Oh gag me, another haunted house movie? Will
someone put this madness to an end? The Marsh is
another ghost story with good production values
and a plot that seems as if it was made by some
software that writes standard horror scripts by
itself. The story is painfully slow-paced and
staying awake was a tricky thing to do and to try
to cover up the slow pace, they've filled the movie
with ridiculously predictable loud-noise scares.
Seriously. When someone either looks into a mirror
or peeps through a peephole, you know there's going
to be a ghost popping up any second. These days
most horror flicks try to avoid these clichéd
scares, but The Marsh greets clichés with loving arms.
Claire is a successful children’s books writer and
has been having nightmares about a marsh by a house
for some time now. Obviously, she manages to track
down this house - by a fluke - and decides to rent
it (because that's the sane thing to do). Well,
surprise, surprise, the house is haunted and it
seems as if Claire is somehow connected to it all
(gee, I didn't see that coming). Luckily, she finds
a business card underneath a couch for a paranormal
investigator - again, a fluke - who just happens to
live in the same small town. I guess every small
town has a paranormal investigator these days (sigh).
We all know where it's headed from here. Silly twists
and lame death scenes mixed with one of the dullest
stories ever does not equal a good movie. I have to
say though, The Marsh is pretty much what I expected
The Return to be. Replace Claire with Sarah Michelle
Gellar and you have the movie that the trailer for
The Return promised us. Anyway, so what about the
marsh, you ask. Well, the marsh itself doesn't have
much to do with the plot, but I guess it sounded
better than "The Haunted House".
Ultimately, I was extremely underwhelmed by this
slick-looking horror flick. It was pretty ho-hum
and as clichéd as they come. The acting was above
average for DTV horror flicks but the dialogues
were all too stale and dull. Slow-paced and overall
dull ghost movie which was clearly meant to be
marketable for the PG-13 crowd, but I don't even
think that they will buy this.
Nothing.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
The Marsh offers nothing new to the haunted house
genre and gladly invites as many clichés as possible
to join the party. The pacing is awful and they've
tried to cover this up with ridiculously predictable
scares, and the plot is overall quite dull.
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