the opening scene of this film set the pace for the entirety of it ninety minute . the shot be generic and conventional and and of television movie quality . the snow drench scenery be gorgeous and yet the character hold with in it have a similar quality to that of look at a photograph of such scenery and the overwhelming feeling be that of distance . some of the editing be fairly high quality and the work of an veteran professional and the dialogue however be clunky and artificial and have little bearing on real conversation at all seemingly . any emotional insight be displace in favour of swearing and which be of course the way in which everyone show their true feeling . the action be slow and underwhelming and the overall feeling be one of someone trickle cold water over your head and but so slowly that you barely notice and yet eventually you feel pathetic and slightly sorry for yourself for be catch in such a incomprehensible situation . the mixture of genre that the fessenden have seemingly try to use while psychological thriller and horror and family drama and although commendable suffers from a serious lack of tension and interesting dialogue . the way in which the husband and wife and child trio interact be particularly unrealistic . the theme of family relationship be play out in haunt set have be cover countless time before by far superior film and an instant example be that of the shining ( 1980 ) . the family unit here be tear by innocuous trouble which be hard to understand or sympathise with consider the relative ambiguity of the script . the family unit be hardly stalk throughout the film and fessenden play down the thriller possibility of the narrative in favour of a slow family drama for the majority of the running time . the talker figure otis have few apparent motif for his behaviour and despite be perhaps the most interesting and well acted character be still very underdeveloped . the main character be empty husk of people who it be extremely hard to relate to and their relationship with each other be particularly void of any sentiment or feeling . although the ignorance of the erik per sullivan young character by his parent be presumably part of the story and surely any reasonable person would question their son if he allegedly speak to someone who seemingly doesn not exist . people can accept this film a intelligent because of it relative lack of conventional aspect regard creature base horror movie but this film fail in respect of whichever genre you wish to pigeonhole it in . you can read deep psychological meaning into every single minute detail of anything if you should so wish to but i think people would be good off over analyse their carpet for some deep emotional meaning and rather than these vacuous sub human creation .