I'm gonna work hard here not to spoil this one. If you are a fan of Suspense/Horror not the jumpy jolty horror the deeper stuff that needs to be ripped to the surface, then you will most likely want to check this movie out. The acting is very good, a cast of mostly kids doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Not to say that the acting was not just as good by the adults there were just less of them. You will be kept wondering for the first 45 minutes or so, but there is something deeper that you might not catch. The main story though is good if convoluted, and speckled. There is a great story and this would be such an easy movie for any other country to take, and make there own as we see them do. I do have a really hard time recommending this movie to the average movie watcher though, and it is only because most people will not have the patience to really understand, but if you do you may like the direction that this movie takes, and Enjoy it as much as I did. (Spoiler I have to. If they were not guilty wouldn't they have said so at some point? They were all guilty of something that was completely deserving of the consequences. The rest speaks for it's self. Except maybe: How did no one hear the girl screaming if only the neighbor heard the noise. OK that's out of my system.)

In a remote Irish community, eleven-year-old Niamh is haunted by invisible forces. She and her family are attacked during the night and she's the sole survivor of the ensuing fire. She is taken in by her neighbors. Nobody believes her about the mysterious powers of the house. She finds strange occurrences continue to follow her and thinks that they are the results of her own tears.

It's a reasonable indie horror. There is only one truly compelling scene with the group of girls and the dolls. The movie basically follows Niamh but it doesn't make it particularly scary. It starts with the original family dealing with a haunted house and ultimately dying in a violent night. That's not that scary either. The last act devolves into messy story telling. Missy Keating does a good job in the lead. This indie horror is trying something interest but it doesn't all work and it's not that scary.

This is a slightly different kind of horror film. The film opens with Niamh (Missy Keating) a withdrawn bruised child, clearly the victim of abuse. In her nightmarish world, Niamh has the ability to not only detect abuse in others, but has developed some kind of telekinetic protection which goes from what appears to be haphazard to controlled.

It isn't long before Niamh is an orphan living with her loving neighbors being questioned by the police.

I liked "The Village of the Damned" feel that the film projected. However most of the time I kept waiting for something to happen, even while things were going on. The movie was careful to not show actual child abuse, but would show you bruises. The first few times left me wondering because of the camera cut away. Was she being abused? Was it her imagination?

This is a psychological horror with a limited audience.

Parental Guide: No F-bombs or sex. Brief nudity (Clare Barrett)