Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Trevor Anthony Calderon I love this movie ever since! I wanted this to be RE-Popular because this is such as great memories for scary. I understand that this is old but still. Good Throwback.

moonspinner55 Uncle Cyrus, a wealthy, enigmatic ghost hunter--and soul enslaver!--is killed while on a dangerous mission in a wrecking yard to capture the spirit of a killer known as the Juggernaut. His elaborate, mechanized estate, glass-encased and "powered by the dead," is then turned over to his nephew, a widower math teacher with a grown daughter, a young son and his sassy nanny, who could use the new digs after being rendered nearly destitute by a fire which killed the Mrs. Very loose remake of William Castle's 1960 horror-comic was directed by Steve Beck in his debut. Beck, who had previously worked as a visual effects art director, ensures a good-looking movie with amazing, goosebumpy atmospherics and assorted grotesqueries, but he hasn't yet developed a talent for handling actors. The obnoxious kid is one thing, but Matthew Lillard's over-the-top performance as Cyrus' psychic assistant--who unfortunately survives the prologue--and J. R. Bourne's shifty-eyed turn as Cyrus' lawyer are wincingly amateurish, unworthy of a major studio production. Maybe these actors thought they were in a campy movie on the level of Castle's original? In the lead role, Tony Shalhoub does a nice job, and F. Murray Abraham gets a chance to be deviously sinister as Cyrus, but nothing else here rises to the level of the film's polished look. *1/2 from ****

Brandon Ferguson I first saw this movie as a child back in 2007, six years after it's release. Back then I was so amazed at the level of creativity that this movie had offered. So many interesting and unique details were depicted which made it stand out quite well compared to other horror movies.It has now been 16 years since its release, and after just watching it again, I can plainly say that this movie has not aged well at all. In fact, watching it now was sort of a pain. The story was still intriguing, but the actual 'ghosts' look so boring and not very well designed, with the exception of a couple and even they are a bit lackluster. The acting isn't anything exceptional, but it works. If you were a new viewer and weren't informed of the time period of this movies release, you would quickly realize that it was released during the very early 2000's.The story is okay. A band of people are placed in a situation they didn't want or expect to be in and are trying to find a way to leave it with their lives. Sounds somewhat typical, but it does it decently well. The one major complaint I have is that the movie never addresses how the ghosts died, which is a question that I find most people as well as myself are left wondering. Final Thoughts: This movie worked during the time of it's release, but it doesn't work as well now. The impact of time has made it unfortunately a bit difficult to view. You won't be totally left unfulfilled investing an hour and a half watching this, but just know that it won't keep up with today's standards of a horror movie.

abbysharp1399 I really enjoyed this movie. It's not the scariest in the world, it just makes you jump occasionally. But I thought the plot was rather good and had an interesting twist in the middle that I wasn't expecting. I like the idea of the Black Zodiac, and as I have the DVD I got to find out each ghosts back story which I found really cool. It also has quite good CGI in some places (every long shot of the house from outside is CGI, which I didn't realize until I watched the special features). Overall, a pretty good movie (don't be put off by the fake-looking blood at the beginning when the truck sprays it out in the car dump like me and my friends did the first time so we turned it off at that part- but it gets better :D )