#17 - The Witch in the Window (2018)
(dir. Andy Mitton)
Simon and his 12 year old son Finn move into an old house in Vermont in order to fix it up and flip it. They learn from a neighbor that the house has a dark past - a creepy old woman used to live there, and she died while sitting in a chair gazing out the window. Now she haunts the place, and doesn't want them to leave.
This was OK. I really liked the dynamic between the father and son - they had good back and forth banter and their reactions to the haunting seemed pretty authentic. It's always refreshing to see a movie where the characters' first reaction to a ghost is to get the hell out of the house and drive away (of course there are plot reasons for them to return, else it would be a very short film).
The actual spooky stuff wasn't anything special though. There are a lot of the standard jump scares that are little more than a loud noise and the ghost was just about as generic of a "creepy old lady" as you can get. The film briefly touches on a real-life horror (the kid seeing something traumatizing on the internet) but doesn't do anything interesting with that.
So yeah, this certainly wasn't a bad film but is pretty forgettable beyond the likable main characters.
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