Review of The New Daughter (2009) by Thelordoffilm — 12 Aug 2010

The New Daughter is one of those direct to DVD's movies that are rarely good. I can only name a few where I actually enjoy. It's not the best horror movie out there but it's creepy enough to pass a Sunday evening.

The New Daughter stars Kevin Costner as John James a novelist who gets divorced and has to take care of his kids on his own. He decides to move to the country to write his book and to be more interactive with his kids.

His daughter Louisa (Ivan Baquero) and his son Sam (Gattlin Griffith) meet the required elements of kids in a typical horror movie just watch The Haunting of CT. Everything seems to go well a little hostility from Louisa but things are looking brighter.

One day while exploring the kids find a huge mound at their backyard. Sam is terrified by it but Louisa is drawn to it and starts going there everyday. John notices it and starts as well to notice as well her changes in mood and behavior.

The more John begins to uncover the truth, the worse it really is. The movie is recycled stuff I know but you know what, for being a direct to DVD movie is well made, well acted and I started to enjoy it.

There is no Oscar winning performances here but everybody did what their roles needed. The director was able to maintain a good level of suspense and tension to produce the scares. Although the ending, I felt that they cheated.

It's not a movie to run to the rental store or the retail store to buy it, but it's a good movie to spend the time catch it netflix or redbox.