In the end, I found nothing particularly special or unique about this film. It was a rather run-of-the-mill indie effort with no legitimate scares and with minimal payoffs.

While I did enjoy the characters somewhat, there was something about their dynamics together that made me not entirely buy them as brother and sisters. Also, each of them come across as a bit of a caricature rather than an actual person.

After they sit around and commiserate for a while about what a lousy father Mark was to them, weird things begin to happen like lights inside the cabin turning off by themselves and figures appearing who aren’t really there, such as that of their dead father.

They then make the acquaintance of realtor Grace (played by Debra Lord Cooke), who’d initially sold the place to Mark, and who wasn’t even aware that Mark had children. She’s the one who supposedly found Mark after his fatal fall on the stairs.

It doesn’t take long before they discover the attic, and the crazy-ass banging noises coming from up there aren’t helping matters. However, when their attempts to get up there are thwarted by a stuck door, they give up for the time being.

While checking out her father’s bedroom upstairs, Beth finds a framed photograph of two people that neither she nor her siblings recognize. She finds it odd, but doesn’t invest too much more thought in it than that.

Some time later, the man’s three grown children, Emma (played by Lauren Pisano), Beth (played by Kellie Spill), and Dustin (played by Daniel Burns) arrive at the cabin, and it quickly becomes clear that they have inherited the $1.3 million rural residence.

The movie begins with a man named Mark (played by Bart Shattuck) entering his lakeside cabin and heading up to the attic for reasons unknown.

Now granted, I am not generally the biggest proponent of horror films about remote cabins in the woods, but I’d received some favorable feedback from followers about this one, so I decided to give it a whirl.

Movie of the Day: Sight Unseen (2026) * This film premiered at the Maine International Film Festival in the US on July 19, 2025. * This was the first feature-length film for writer/director Stephen Parkhurst since his debut, Roommate Wanted, in 2013.