claire holloway ( gabrielle anwar ) be a child book writer specialise in nightmare bedtime story . most of those be take straight out of her own dreams full of marsh and weird house and thing that go chlup in the middle of the night . by freak chance she watch a glimpse of a house which haunt her dream in a ecodocumentary about swamp . interneting away she quickly find the dream house and naturally decides to confront the situation by make a nice little vacation by rent the house . soon after dreams start become more real and soon she must confront the nightmare that have be scratch at her brain for year . fortunately she have a trusty sidekick parapshycic geoffrey hunt ( forrest whitaker ) to hold her hand on the way of solve this truly scooby doo mystery . the marsh be truly a movie bogged down by it own script . it start out promisingly enough only to spiral into absurdity and illogical plot solution . the multiple twist ending make you smile instead of say ahhh . a they make the story consistently . well . dumb . most key to the story represent a dead ghost kill off people whose only fault be be asleep at the time of tragedy . but in general plot point stick out like a sore thumb and basically nothing make much sense . question answer be answer badly . and if the two very last scene in the movie doesn not bring out a smile of pity for the movie i will be sincerely surprised . other than that act and tech credit be fine and but nothing memorable . passable at best and laughable at bad .