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Rating:  - Great for Halloween
This movie was really really good. Great for a teen age Halloween party. I am from Worcester mass and it was filmed nearby in Princeton. I am looking forward to seeing more from this young writer director John Stimpson.
Rating:  - A Mystery More than a Suspense Movie
Although this movie is listed as a suspense or thriller movie, it really is more of a mystery movie. I don't know who gave this movie an 'R' rating because, as most, it is more like a 'PG' movies. My ten-year-old granddaughter watched it with me, and she liked it so much she begged to keep it to show to her girlfriends coming over for a Halloween sleep-over.
As we were watching it, I thought that if this is based on a true story, it is genuinely amazing. It turns out, however, that there was a real Lucy Keyes who disappeared some 250 years ago without a trace, but this story is one person's idea of what could have happened to her. I have to say that it is an imaginative story about Lucy that arrives at a relatively exciting conclusion (especially for little girls!). We could have done without the 'evil land developer' angle, which is so common in movies that it could hardly be considered imaginative or new.
There are a couple of scenes that might be uncomfortable for traditional values families, so you might watch for them and fast forward or talk about it with your kids. Other than that, this is a movie the whole family could watch and to try to figure out before the end what really happened to little Lucy. I think most school-age kids could handle the movie if watched with their parents.
Rating:  - not scary, but interesting....
The story is good - as most local legend stories go. There is a subplot which makes it interesting. You can tell the actors who are not familiar with the area - the ones who call WestMINster Road "Westmin-is-ter" Road. I would have thought someone in proofing or the writers might have noticed this. We New Englanders are used to unusual sounding names for our roads, mountains, and towns.
Rating:  - This has been done to death
The movie is well made but how many times can they make a movie about city folks moving into a farm and stir up local ghosts? I'd give the movie a higher mark if not for dozens of movies I have already seen with the same old premise. I heard that it's based on a real legend but this is not good enough reason to make a movie about it.
Rating: - Interesting
This movie is interesting for people who live in Princeton, MA. You get glimpses of your town, fire & police. The legend behind the movie is interesting as well. The movie is good, the ending a little dragged out. It lost me at the end, because it was so fictional. However, the parts where the true story was unfolded was interesting and well done. I live in Princeton myself and the person before who stated that this should be pulled of the shelf needs to calm down. I've only lived here a short time and I've noticed two sides to Princeton. One side- "high-class" (as they stated), snobby, rich. Other Side- Friendly, earthy, farm owners, very in tough with nature. I guess it just depends on what part of Princeton you're living in. As for the movie, well done. Making a movie must be tough & it's no one's right to make such rude comments about someone's passion and their projects. A lot of work probably went into this & I watch whenever it's aired on t.v.
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