A Haunting at Silver Falls: A Review and Synopsis

Summary:
     A young orphan girl goes to live with her relatives and soon finds herself being haunted by a pair of ghostly twins.

Synopsis:
    In the first scene, a woman is being chased through the woods by an invisible creature. She is attacked and after she is dead, her corpse is moved and a severed hand lies in the middle of the forest with a silver ring on its index finger.

The Woman

    After 20  years, our main heroine, Jordan, moves to live with her Aunt Anne and her uncle Kevin Sanders in Silver falls from L.A., all taking place after her father dies. Jordan's aunt and her mom were twin sisters, and Jordan's mother died when she was 5 years old. Anne and Jordan have a brief conversation about this, and they the two girls go down the stairs from what you later find out is Jordan's room. They walk in on her Uncle, Kevin, having a discussion with Jordan's nerd of a boyfriend whose name is Larry. Larry is your typical uncool kid, who isn't cool because he wears your grandpa's glasses.
    Larry takes Jordan to a little party out in the woods that's filled with alcohol, drugs, and the typical teenager trying to have a good time. It's there that she meets Robbie who is the cool kid around town, and is totally rad because his hair is awesome. He sells Larry some pills and flirts with Jordan, who is completely uninterested in the guy. Larry and Jordan leave the crowd and cuddle against a tree, and Larry jokes with Jordan by telling her stories of people who've died in Silver Falls and how their spirits still haunt the town, all be it joking, it seems that the stories could be true (as this is foreshadowing for later in the film).
    A cop crashes the party so Larry and Jordan make a run for it, getting separated in the process. When she realizes that she's alone, Jordan believes she's hearing Larry whisper her name and spots a silver ring lying the the middle of the forest floor.

The ring she found

    After she finds the ring, Jordan receives a ride home from Robbie. When she gets home, Jordan makes a stop by the kitchen and takes some candy up to her room. One of the things Larry told her about ghosts was that they sneak in and eat your candy, well soon after Jordan falls asleep we see a pair of bare feet standing on her floor with candy wrappers falling around them. The camera moves up a torn up dress and a zombie-like face with dark eyes appears out of focus. The face is staring down at Jordan in her bed, the female ghost points her finger at Jordan, a finger that has a ring on it much like the one Jordan found stumbling around in the woods.

    The ghost-girl crawls onto Jordan's bed on top of her and tries to pull the ring off the girl's finger, but fails miserably. The ghost tries harder and eventually pulls Jordan up into a sitting position, pulling hard on the sleeping girl's finger just to try and take the ring off. Again, the ghost fails and then disappears into thin air.         The next morning, Jordan awakes with a start and walks downstairs calmly, believing that the night's events were only a dream. The next morning Jordan goes downstairs and is lectured by Anne about leaving trash on the floor (the candy wrappers), saying that it attracts mice. Jordan has no clue what the woman is talking about because the candy had been eaten by one of the ghost twins.

    After this brief discussion, Jordan goes over to Larry's house to check on him after what had happened the night before. She begins throwing pebbles at Larry's bedroom balcony but is interrupted by Larry's father (played by that one librarian in the movie, the Mummy). He tells Jordan to stay away from his son and also tells her to get out of his sight because he thinks that she pressured Larry into buying the drugs. He leaves and Larry steps out of his room and explains to Jordan that he had tried to convince his dad that he had bought the pills on his own, but his father wouldn't listen. They tell each other goodbye and promise to see each other at school.

    Jordan heads home and find her Aunt Anne and Uncle Kevin sitting at the table with some of their belongings out in front of them, the belongings which they had accused Jordan of stealing earlier that day. The pair had found their belongings in Jordan's room, and they tell Jordan that she should have just asked to borrow those things. Jordan blatantly rejects the accusations and finds herself in more trouble than she would be if she had just confessed. Anne and Kevin lock Jordan in the bathroom so that they may go out and enjoy themselves without having to worry about Jordan doing anything she wasn't supposed to.

    Our heroine finds herself in the bathroom, and due to boredom, she falls asleep. Shortly after falling asleep, one of the twins makes their way into the bathroom and turn on the bathtub spigot. It's there that Jordan is nearly drowned by the ghost and is saved in the nick of time by Anne and Kevin.

    Jordan continues to see the ghostly twins. She is then made to see a therapist (coincidentally Larry's father).   Jordan sees the girl at school and follows her to the cemetery. Larry comes with Jordan on her day-long journey throughout the town, following the ghost and believing that the ghost wishes to show her something throughout the whole adventure. Larry makes a phone call and a little while later, her Aunt, Uncle, Robbie, the Sheriff, and Larry's Dad have an intervention and force Jordan to come home with them. At home, Jordan learns that she is being haunted by the ghosts of Heather and Holly Dahl, twins who were supposedly murdered by their father in cold blood (who is on death row in the meantime). She also learns that other women all over town who have claimed to be haunted by the Dahl twins committed suicide in short time.

     Jordan then makes a short trip to visit the twins' father, Wyatt Dahl, on death row. He asks Jordan where she got the ring on her finger, and then tells her that the ring was one of three that all fit together. He says that the twins each had one and he had the third, so he gives Jordan his ring and advises her to listen to what the twins were trying to tell her.

Jordan and Wyatt

    At home, Jordan puts the rings together and the twins take her to a school bus, which then is revealed to be a dream after Jordan wakes up. Jordan then finds the third, and final ring, in her Aunt's jewelry box. Anne walks in on Jordan and talks to her about it, which ends up with Anne and Kevin locking Jordan up in the basement. Larry comes by to apologize to Jordan for staging the intervention, but is stopped at the door by Anne and Kevin refusing to let him talk to her. Anne heads out to purchase some alcohol, and while she is out, Kevin torments Jordan while Larry enters through a different door. Larry hits Kevin on the head with a shovel and knocks him out, but Anne returns soon after. The two then overpower Anne and locker her up in the basement with Kevin. Jordan puts all three rings on Anne's finger and tells her that she will pay for what she did to the twins and all the women who were haunted by the twins. The twins then appear and the trapdoor to the basement closes on Anne and Kevin, most likely causing them to never be seen again. 

 
Review:
     Over all, I rate it 4 out of 10 stars because, my personal thoughts on this movie would go along the lines of,  "yeah, it's okay". I thought that the directors and writers tried a little bit too hard to add in the scares (which there were hardly any). I really thought that the addition of the convict to the story was unnecesary, and that the twins were a bit too cliche. The twins, to me, were just a copy off of Stephen King's The Shining. And the ending, albeit unpredictable, was just a horrible compilation of bad acting and horrible dialogue.

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