Review: Sightings: Heartland Ghost

I'm sure everyone reading this has heard about the little girl ghost Sallie? If not let me ring your memory strings for a hot minute. Sallie the Heartland ghost was featured on a cool SciFi show called Sightings. She allegedly is the spirit of a 6 or 7 year old little girl who died in the house. The reason of death will tell many different versions of the story if you look around online.

The movie Sightings: Heartland Ghost though tells yet another odd tale of how Sallie died, why she died, and so on.

Sightings has always been a show that I liked watching. They cover it all, from aliens to demons, to innocent children ghosts, to evil malicious spirits.

Anyhow, in Sightings: Heartland Ghost a new couple Pam and Jeff moves into an old Victorian home with their baby boy Tommy. The plan is to fix up the decaying home, and turn it around for a larger profit. Of course though plans change as soon as the couple realize their house is haunted. Not by one spirit, but by 4 of them.

Now the things that occur in the flick would be downright terrifying, from objects moving throughout the air, things getting thrown at people, and claw marks appearing on the body for no reason at all.

I mean heck, I'd be scared to hell if something decided to claw me up too, unseen entities bringing harm to my body?! Hell with that. The problem though with the flick is that the actors do a terrible, God awful, pathetic job at portraying fear. The film may of had a chance at being labeled a good flick, or even a decent flick, had the acting not been so bad.

To make matters worse, you seem to always know when an attack on someone is about to occur because the camera switches to a mode that is supposed to be seen 'through the eyes of the ghosts'.

The problem though is that everything is seen in a warped out tunnel vision, some fog, and blue lights.

Sort of like looking into one of those stupid containers filled with beads, you turn the tube and the beads make stupid pretty shapes. It threw me off, and made things seem really corny and less scary. An attack would have been better had you not known it was coming.

Anyhow, throughout the movie Jeff pretty much tries denying that anything strange is happening, yet everything bad that happens, or any attack that is made, is made on him. Why it was so far into the movie that Jeff became a believer is beyond me.

Jeff's wife eventually calls Sightings, the TV show to come to the home to help them.

Now the majority of the movie deals not only with Jeff and his wife, but the Sightings ghost hunting team as well. It sort of goes back and forth into boredom till finally the ending brings the movies story of Sallie together to give reasoning as to why she is dead, why she is still here, and why she hasn't crossed over.

All in all the flick was a flop. The bad acting, and stupid cameras 'ghost eyes view' made the movie corny, and far from being scary. The events that occurred however would have been scarier had they been played out better, had the actors been more believable, sadly though it failed to deliver.

All in all, the stories surrounding Sallie's ghost that you will find by doing a google search are more interesting than this movie.