I was shocked by the ending. It was a good plot twist. But what's with the father sleeping with the daughter at the end. And the other daughter killing the sister and father off.
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sealady-332395 December 2021This is a movie that could've been much better. The storyline started out similar to others, where a parent takes the kids/teens away after a family tragedy, and move into a different house with "a past". The acting wasn't great. I did not know many of the actors apart from the guy who played the mayor. I made it through the movie with a few eye rolls, especially because of the disgusting behavior of one of the daughters. The movie was wrapping up, and I thought the parent and daughters were getting a justified refund because of a non-disclosure issue with the house they bought, but then the movie takes a total DIVE - and it's sick & twisted. IMO too far fetched and disgusting even for someone watching who is not a prude.
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thrax-2331616 February 2022Other reviews discuss the twists at the film's end. I feel ambivalent about these events myself, to the point that my overall reaction is WTF, and more or less why I give this one 4/10.
There are really no worthwhile scares to speak of. If you're looking for a horror fix, this one is a pass. -
methis23 June 2021I should have trusted my gut. As promising as his early career was, seeing the name Eric Roberts near the top of a cast list has become as much of a red flag as Tara Reid or Richard Grieco. But I was swayed by a professional "reviewer," one who must take kick-backs.
Following a prologue that owes a debt to the Amityville, NY DeFeo family, in which we see "security cam" footage of a young man slaughter his family and then himself, we are introduced to a family in the midst of losing its matriarch to cancer. Soon after, the remaining members relocate to the very house in which the prologue murders occurred, though they're not informed of its history.
Is there something evil in the house? Will it possess any of its new occupants to repeat history? I've never written spoilers before, but this flick pissed me off, so here goes: The answer to both questions above is yes. And then it's no. After watching almost the entire movie follow a by-the-numbers haunted house formula, one that's completely devoid of actual scares. There's a tacked-on ending that shows that the home's new occupants aren't a family at all, but a group of grifters who staged the "supernatural" experiences they had in the house in order to score a big payday by way of lawsuits over the failure to disclose its history. Say what?!?
It'd be one thing if, billed as a horror movie, it provided any creepy atmosphere, tension, or scares, but it doesn't, with the possible exception of the prologue, which is then never addressed/resolved. It'd be another thing if it billed itself as a drama, or crime drama, but it doesn't. The way it plays out, it really looks as if the producers watched the dumpster fire of a horror movie they had, realized it wasn't at all horrific, and decided to tack on this left-field "twist" they thought was clever, but turned the whole flick into something else entirely. So who gets grifted? The viewer, that's who. Oh, and the indigenous group that someone swindled into footing the bill for this turd. -
awwatkin3 February 2023The movie seemed to move very slow to me, even though it's not that long.
It's really not a horror movie, except for the few poltergeist-like things that happen with inanimate objects, and honestly those are really the only interesting scenes.
Why they decided to make the women, who are obviously in their mid-twenties, be high school teenagers is beyond me. They never go to school nor does that really play into the plot at all.
The plot twist in the last 5 minutes is weird. I can't decide if it makes the movie better or worse. It's definitely taken too far. The 'twist' is ok, but revealing how the characters really related to each other just seemed too much. -
I always try very hard not to give any spoilers in my reviews, but I may have to with this one as it infuriated me so much, and would like to prevent others from wasting their time. The movie begins with the video of an apparently possessed boy murdering his family and then taking his own life. Then in the main story, a man's wife dies of cancer and he is left with his two grown up daughters, and moves in to the house, we unbeknown to him, the murders took place. So far so good. Okay SPOILER ALERT! There are multiple security videos of paranormal activity happening throughout the house. But then, it turns out the dad is shagging one of his daughters and they staged the whole thing to defraud the bank for non disclosure. They never explain how they pulled off the supernatural security footage, doors and furniture moving on their own etc. The ending is completely bonkers, incest and fratricide, fraud and murder. Just, just don't watch this.
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redhead-8231720 October 2022The acting is so SO bad.
The twist and double twist at the end were unnecessary but was it all to make up for not being able to get anything out of the actors?
Why not bring the acting school to the set?
Eric Roberts must be in some bad debt (or I guess he probably never made that much).
I have never seen any of the other "actors." It must be a b movie.
SPOILER STARTS HERE Why the dialogue at graveside?
Why all the other father-daughter dialogue when no one else was present?
Continuity errors.
Possibly evidence that the twists were tacked on and no money was left to re-edit to fit.
The twist and double twist at the end were unnecessary but was it all to make up for not being able to get anything out of the actors? -
kirkendog17 February 2023This movie is the equivalent of watching the Super Bowl for 2 hours & you find out those aren't really NFL players but scrubs.
I hate movies that lie to you the entire movie & expect you to believe it, and what teenager/adult wouldn't know that these girls are not teens? The only actor close to a teenager was the Miles character who looks young & is 20, the 3 other 'teenagers' are 26/27, it's just pathetic what Hollywood expects us to believe.
What scam artists keep the acting going even when alone with themselves? Give me a break, they'd be laughing it up about how they've fooled everyone. They obviously ran out of money or time IMO & just threw together a weak ending.
The Staci character was so annoying & typical for Hollywood these days, uppity, bossy, wears a feminista shirt & we're supposed to be happy for this trash at the end. Automatic loss of 5 points for every movie with a character like this. -
fjames-4645616 June 2021I surprisingly liked this one. At first I thought it was too slow..but keep watching..it gets better more towards the end...plot twist u didn't see coming...
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eric-wallis19 May 2021If you liked Paranormal Activity and thought that this might be along those lines, do not waste your time on this. The story line and special effects are really bad and very predictable. The two 30 year old women who are supposed to be teens in high school in this dumpster fire of a movie are not good enough actors to make anything believable from the very start.
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mdc0175720 May 2021The storyline was uncanny and the characters were fun to watch LOL.
SPOILER ALERT............. The movie opens with a dying woman saying goodbye to her husband and two gorgeous gals.....then the funeral...then the move to a gated community to escape grieving .
The usual security footage of room to room goes bye and reveals a sleepwalker getting a rifle and killing his family and then himself.
Jim and the girls , Staci & Randy move in to the mansion and start experiencing ghostly occurrences . The Sherriff gets involved to no avail. The Mayor ( Eric Roberts and his real wife ) and wife welcome them and then you don't see them until later in the film for a minute .
The girls meet boys and do the flirt & tease thing in a few scenes and then all of them experience ghostly happenings.
The last 10 minutes are just too complicated to explain after Staci sleepwalks and tries to shoot Randy until Jim returns to save the day and get the family out of the real estate deal for millions more than he paid.
The part I didn't get is why Jim was having sex with his daughter and celebrating pulling off a scam of scariness to rip off the realters of millions . Then Staci poisons Jim and Randy and drives off with all the cash . They flashback to Robin ( mother ) dying and whispering in Staci's ear to kill Jim for no given back story of a reason .
Overall, I enjoyed the movie , waiting to be scared and waiting for the gratuitus nudity that never occurred, thus making it a good security footage thriller with a HUGE twist of an ending. -
wop-3152913 April 2022This movie is like bad whoopi. The build up to the end isn't super enjoyable but I mean hey, at least you get to finish.
The plot is fine and there are some well done, violent scenes. The acting from the 3 leads is solid (some small role actors weren't good, however). And yeah, you don't really need nudity in movies anymore cause of the internet but I was really expecting it at some point here lol
Now for the real reason you're reading this... that ending. While I respect the fact the writers made something out of the ordinary, the actual setup doesn't make sense.
I am okay with the weirdness of female actors in their late twenties portraying high school girls, but were they actually high school aged characters?? Because one of them slept with a guy in high school lol (not that any guy would mind).
I am okay with their ability to fool an insurance agency who does EXTENSIVE research on a case such as this which would involve major payouts as they would have his SSN.
I am okay with the frumpy male actor somehow being God's gift to women and conveniently able to sleep with the realtor in order to obtain the footage.
I am okay with the blonde not being arrested which would obviously happen. There are a total of zero cases in which attempted double homicide has been ignored cause "Ghosts, your honor. Naw Mean?"
I am NOT okay with the writers cheating, however. The "family" would be acting normal when they are alone with each other. Con artists aren't method actors that keep up the facade whilst alone with each other at home, let alone have 10 minute fake conversations as if someone was watching. That's just ridiculous. The guy would not be telling the blonde "you're just sleepwalking" to point to one example.
But overall, I was glad I watched it and speaking frankly, they conned me as well into believing it was actually a horror flick. That hasn't been done since Cabin in the Woods. Kudos!
(I rate movies based on expectations. You can't put Sharknado on the same scale as Jaws.) -
I think giving a movie one star is reserved for the worst of the worst. I don't gone bad horror movies 1 star like most people when they dislike a movie. This one reaches a level of torturously bad. It's so terrible you'll lose all sense of feeling in your mind, heart, and eyes. Video games have better stories than this, the ones from 1996 even. The money used to make this film could have been used for anything else. But maybe it's just my taste and you'll think this is a real winner. I doubt it though.
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paul_haakonsen27 July 2021I stumbled upon "616 Wilford Lane" by random chance, and of course I sat down to watch it, as I hadn't already seen it before. But as I hadn't even heard about this movie from writers Howard Burd, Dante Yore and Mark S. Allen, then I didn't know what to expect.
Granted, I wasn't really harboring much of any high hopes for the movie, as it had Eric Roberts on the cast list, but thankfully he was not in the movie all that much.
And the movie started out fairly okay, not great, but adequately entertaining. And it was fun enough to watch what was going on, especially since the movie was gradually building up with the pseudo-spooky stuff, which wasn't actually spooky, but I suppose it was meant to appear to be.
And then the movie takes a very unforeseen turn towards the end, and I must admit that it felt like a slap to the face with a cold, dead fish. That turn of events was just laughably bad.
But wait, it gets better, because the movie takes another turn after that, just when you get to digest that first twist. And that second twist, just rams in the knife of excruciating laughable pain even further. And I have to admit that the movie instantly went from being mediocre to below mediocre with that first twist of events, and then fell down to insulting with the second twist of events.
Of course I am not going to spoil the movie by giving away the ending here, but wow, come on. That was just ludicrous. And I must than writers Howard Burd, Dante Yore and Mark S. Allen from the bottom of my heard for virtually wasting 1 hour and 25 minutes of my life with this heap of garbage called "616 Wilford Lane".
John Littlefield really carried the movie quite well with his performance in the movie, despite of how much I abhor the storyline after this ending I was served. But I will say that he really performed quite well and put on a very believable performance in "616 Wilford Lane".
It should be said that the character gallery in the movie was actually quite good and the writers had definitely put some effort into establishing the characters and make them feel like people you could relate to. At least "616 Wilford Lane" had that working for it.
I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movies such as "616 Wilford Lane", just turned out that I wasn't a member of that particular audience, because I feel cheated.
I am rating "616 Wilford Lane" a generous two out of ten stars based on the initial build up of the movie. I can't say that I care one bit about the dual twists towards the end of the movie, no, not one bit. -
PajaTime23 May 2021Give me a house 20 bucks and phone and ill make you a better movie than this its just that bad.
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djviktor19 February 2022I wasn't expecting too much from this movie, it looked decent enough from the trailer. Movie had decent story and you could feel sympathy for the family in the haunted house. Then out of nowhere comes this extremely unbelievable ending. I don't get mad at movies much but this hacked me off. The film makers should be ashamed of themselves for the ending. I recommend staying away from this movie. You'll feel like you wasted time.
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burgerman9316 April 2022I can get past the fact that it actually isn't a horror movie, but the casting choices were weak and the story wasn't interesting at all. All the actors were so robotic. The "twist" wasn't really all that proprietary when you consider that the "father" looks young for his supposed age while the two "daughters" did not appear to be high school students. Did the three grifters really have to put on an act the entire time they were in the house alone? For the sake of the viewer that made sense, but come on- you only really need to care about pretending during the staged supernatural footage.
The cinematography was fine, that's the only plus. -
rsdrn-7953111 February 2023Went into this movie knowing it was short, I expected nothing... so that is the only reason I saw it to the end. The needless cussing added nothing but cheesiness. The stereotypical slutty realestate agent was laughable. The casting of 2 "teenage" girls....yeah also unbelievable.... HOWEVER... the only redeeming quality of this film was the ending...not expected and confusing and the more I think about it....yeah it was garbage. Personally i would nit recommend this to anyone. Now the movie "The Lie" was a great movie for twists and turns...real life is more frightening than bs paranormal drivel....hope this gets to the 119 more characters needed!
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The movie will keep you entertain from the very first scene it's a blend of Amityville Horror House & Paranormal activity.
The movie is not that horror but there are few Paranormal scenes which will remind you that this is a horror movie after all.
Last 10 minutes plot twist was totally unexpected. There is no such thing as time waste if you are watching a movie overall it's a decent 85 minutes movie. -
This is not a horror movie. If youre thinking it is, it's not. It starts off as a really poor paranormal activity clone, but there's a twist at the end that entirely shifts it to like a heist movie or something, with a second twist. I really wish directors/writers would stop doing double twists, it makes things feel very disjointed and like they don't know how to actually end.
The acting is bad. There's not even a single thing good about it. Music is not great. The writing is the worst part. There is absolutely nothing good about the writing.
Im honestly not sure what anyone who made this movie was thinking and I can't believe I spent the time watching it. -
deeparbusiness24 May 2021Seems like this movie is getting negative reviews from a lot of biased people who watched the first ten mins or don't rate indie-horror flicks at all.
The acting was believable, and the horror angle in the house was played out really well - the ghosts didn't speak, instead they wandered through other dimensions or just moved objects.
The possession angle with Staci could have been played better. Also, Cody's shotgun could have been used at the end because Staci insinuated that her mother wasn't the issue and she could live without her.
I think this film would have done much better financially if it was released under a bigger banner.
This was way better than the other movie I watched yesterday... uh, I think it's called "Mortal Kombat." -
ryleespicksandflops24 November 2021This movie kept my partner & I engrossed throughout. I love anything paranormal. Didn't have many jump scares but still a tad on the creepy side but the twist. One of us usually always guesses what's going on in the movie but wow, didn't see that one coming! Recommend for a rainy day if you're into a good thriller/light horror.
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I really thought this movie sounded good from the description. Boy, was I wrong. First off, the daughters are supposed to be "teenagers" as it was stated in the movie. This was so laughable, as they looked to be around 27-30 years old. The most irritating part of the movie was the character "Randy" (one of the daughters) who spent basically the whole movie walking around showing off her large boobs.......like every single scene. It was annoying and pointless. The acting by most of the characters was just bad. It was as if they plucked people off the street with no acting experience at all. There was a "surprise" at the end which was pretty much the only highlight of this movie.
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nup-323 May 2021Boring with lack of imagination.
Don't waste your time, go re-watch another movie.