This film has a decent plot but it falls apart because of all the film's other faults. We all love a good spooky tale about witches and ghosts. It's a shame the acting is so bad. It's almost painful to watch and I wasn't able to even finish the film.

I actually got to the climactic ending and turned it off. There are too many "dramatic" pauses where the camera is focused on the blank faces of the characters. There is no sense of "realness" at all--not in the dialogue, not in the actions. Obviously no one can say anything about realism in regards to how to live in a situation with hauntings like this, but there is either a lack of expression or exaggerated over-expression by the actors. The actress who plays the daughter looks older than the one who plays the mother. Characters who are petulant (and I'm not talking about the kid) with absurd lines makes this cringe-worthy. The scares are boring and trite.

Save your time, see another movie.

In ancient times Isobel Redwood (Danielle Bux) is accused of killing her son and is hung as a witch. Her body is cut up into 9 pieces and buried. The tree is cursed as is the house/ pig farm of St.Jonas. Other children die there and dare others to touch the tree. A mom (Sarah Rose Denton) with two children Emma (Lucy Clarvis) and Jake (Lawrence Weller) unknowingly move into St. Jonas. Neighborhood bullies force Jake to play Ouija Board in the barn with the expected negative results.

The film starts off interesting and maintains interest in spite of the lame mother. The characters were not really developed that well. I enjoyed the ghost/witch/haunting story watching it cold without reading the back cover. (Okay I did read the back cover but quickly forgot it.) The problem with the back cover and IMDB is that the second word is a plot spoiler which ruins the twist. It is like knowing the twist in "The Other" before you watch it. If you plan on watching the film, don't read about it.

Guide: F-bomb, sex? nudity (Lucy Jane Clarvis)

An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it.

The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years, and restless spirits haunt the house where the bodies of the children have been buried.

A family move into their new home, and begin to uncover the terrible truth behind The Tree and the murdered children.......

Trying to deal with family problems in a horror movie predominantly is either a huge boost for a movie, or a killer blow to the narrative.

Some really work, and the most notable example of this most recently is The Babadook, because you really felt that the boy was in danger, and the mother was becoming increasingly unhinged.

Here, it's a different story. Mums hardly there, the daughter plays the predominant pillar in the families foundation, and the son who is seeing the apparitions and becoming more and more dependant on his sister.

But is this just a metaphor for how a family reacts when the 'man of the house' is in a comatose state in hospital. Is the film a subliminal narrative on impending loss, and feeling helpless when a loved one is ill.

It could well be, but when the makers of the film haven't the first idea of how to present someone in a coma, you start to lose interest........rapidly.

From my professional experience, someone in a comatose state, especially that age, should at least be attached to some monitoring equipment, and have access to some suction, oxygen, and have safety barriers attached to the bed. Here it looks like the husband is a lazy beggar.

The acting is below par, and the casting is very questionable, why on earth is the mother just four years older than her daughter in real life? They even look the same age on screen, it's pretty unbelievable stuff.

The film ends with a weird seance and a mad woman who cries blood. Whoop-De-Doo..

So all in all its a pretty disastrous effort from the writer director. It's probably feasible to say that he's based this on some life changing event, and while the metaphorical elements are pretty sound, it's the poor casting and acting that ruin the film.