The movie opens up with a young couple running frantically through the woods. Something unseen is watching and chasing them. The girl can't go on. The man shows her a wooden box (apparently stolen) and says they will never have to work again. He opens the box and a force impales him against a tree. The girl is then attacked.

The movie then jumps to the reading of the will of Rebecca, who passes over her children and gives everything to her 3 grandchildren. Since they haven't come visit her they must spend that weekend at her home to get their inheritance and the granddaughter Elizabeth (Tara Carroll) gets the keys to "the wooden box." ooooh eeeeh oooooh!

The movie would be boring if the three kids just sat around so the two boys Jack and Ray decide to invite guests and throw a party to Elizabeth's dismay. The party moves out to the pool. Elizabeth espies some shadows moving about then... Bam! The next thing you know Elizabeth is sitting in a daze with undisclosed wounds as they are wheeling out dead bodies. The investigator asks questions. We now know how the film ends, everyone dead except for Elizabeth.

Elizabeth retells the story as the main part of the movie begins...Elizabeth discovers grandma collected various occult items while the guys pair off and go to their rooms with their girl friends including hot blond Colleen Shannon. Shadowy figures dart about out of the corner of the eye and in mirrors. In addition to well done shadows, there are other inexpensive subtleties, such as statues blinking. The movie soundtrack sounds like there are faint screams in the background. I appreciated these small details. The action and suspense build slowly, like it should.

The movie never explains how the Naibert surname has been passed down from one female generation to the next. The investigator mispronounces "prolific" and I don't know if that was intentional or a bad script read missed by the director. The ending was disappointing and anti-climatic.

Sex talk, sex, f-bomb, nudity

The three Naibert children, in their teens and early twenties, inherit a vast estate from their grandmother Rebecca. But unknown to them, the family inheritance has passed from grandmother to granddaughter for centuries-and Rebecca has a long reach from the grave to assure that the line is unbroken. The first weekend in the mansion is a party for the three Naiberts and their friends-but one by one, they vanish without a trace. Is death the punishment for violating Rebecca's spell? Are the demons that beset the young people real-or only reflections of their own fear? Is it murder, violence from another dimension, or madness? The answer lives in the reflections. (Written by ray)

Despite its unique tone and creepy visuals, The Passing is about as un- scary as a movie can be, and is often funny when it isn't trying to be. It sure doesn't help when the script is THIS bad and the actors clearly don't know how to act. And plus the revelation of what is going on is insulting to human intellect.

I watched this movie until the very end hoping it would make sense or at least answer questions that arose. No such luck. Almost nothing in this movie makes senses, there is to continuity in the plot. The killings of the women is without rhyme or reason since they are not blood related to the granddaughter. What the hell is with Billy? He isn't a baddie just a genetic anomaly that appears to have been added in for a confusion factor. The character Charles is shot by who the frick, then answer at the end of the movie to the granddaughter, at least in her own ming as the next scene has her in a nut house on drugs. The only redeeming aspect to this movie were the eye candy.