While this is an otherwise decent movie, it's hard to give it a RAVE when there's one huge problem with it. Any story that assumes the main protagonist has completely forgotten an earlier passage in his life is just too hard to swallow.
I can't say too much about this element of the film, otherwise it'd ruin the outcome. But other movies that have employed the same plot device have been equally unsatisfying, notably Shutter Island. That movie ended with me groaning at having been duped throughout - made to believe that a story had unfolded when in fact it had all taken place in the mind of an asylum inmate.
In Dream House, publisher Daniel Craig gives up his job to spend more time with his family, and write a book, in their new, rural house. Unbeknown to Mr. Craig, the former residents of the house were brutally murdered, and the murderer has recently been released from prison to a halfway house.
Bring on the shadowy figures, the spooky lurkers, the lurking spooks.
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