Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Ghost Month (2011)

Alyssa takes a job as a housekeeper for Ms. Woo and her creepy Aunt.  The home is isolated, which is just what Alyssa is looking for as she's trying to get from from her psycho ex-boyfriend and start a new life.  Ms. Woo asks Alyssa to follow the rules, which include things like, don't make calls without asking and don't have anyone over the house, especially boys.  Alyssa isn't good at rules.

She's the snoopiest housekeeper.  She looks through a chest in her room, reads a diary, and asks questions that are intrusive.   Later Alyssa tries on a dress found in the chest and makes a personal call, getting caught at both.  Instead of being worried that she's wearing someone elses dress, she proudly informs her employer that it fits great and looks fantastic on her too.  She takes a polaroid she found in the chest and asks Ms. Woo who the girl is in the photo.  Ms. Woo backhands her and tells her to know her place... no, actually she just says it was the former housekeeper.

It is Ghost Month and Ms. Woo and her Aunt spend their nights doing rituals to keep the spirits away.  Alyssa doesn't believe in such things until she starts seeing ghosts and having nightmares.  More snooping brings her to in a room with urns, and to a neighbor who is a vet and may have have had something to do with the last housekeepers disappearance.

Alyssa proves to be an idiot as she confronts the vet at his stable and call him a liar.  If he really is a liar, then its foolish to go there alone.  Later  that night she pops up as he is burying something in his yard, calls him a liar again, and yells at him to "keep away from me!"  Stupid girl, you're on his property.

This film will drive you nuts.  The psychotic boyfriend tries to track down Alyssa.  Alyssa snoops around the house and does things she's told not to do.  Ms. Woo and her creepy Aunt do their rituals and act odd, and the neighboring Vet is alternately pushy and friendly.

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