Review of Fertile Ground (2011) by Jon C — 17 Jun 2011

An frequently scary and jolting haunted house/possession flick with decent performances but miscasted leads that had no chemistry to make you care about their relationship. The atmoshere was perfect with a creaky, old and spooky house in the middle of nowhere that supposably is where serial killer H.

H Holmes stayed at which makes the setting even more startling. The plot is very unoriginal and spoon feeds it to the viewers and actual has chapter titles for peep sakes, I mean did we really need those! The story follows a couple who is trying to move on after a miscarriage and moves into a old but spacious house that belonged to the husbands ancestors, then strange and spooky things start to happen, pretty much a been there, seen that story.

The movie is a cross between Amityville Horror and Conjurer and it's soo much like your average haunted house flick that I'm starting to forget about it as of now, it's becoming a tired rehash not reboot for the genre but definitely more polished than most straight to dvd haunted house flicks, that's not saying much though.

The ending was unclear to me because it never clarified anything and it makes you believe that the wife was just crazy the whole time or was it the house I just don't know. Overall it has decent scares a committed performance from the lead actress but there is nothing new or inventive here just a run of the mill horror movie to gain a buck but at that it's not half bad but not great either.

Wait for television. More of a 5.5 out of 10.