![]() Too bad the rest of the movie feels like it’s recycling bits from better movies. And Winther’s introduction of the house’s ‘ghost’ is unnerving regardless if you saw it coming or not. Dani’s disappearance from a walk-in closet, for instance, works quite well. Occasionally, Aftermath even conjures up a bit of suspense in spite of its complete reliance on haunted house movie tropes. On one hand, Winther steers the movie along with a basic workmanlike competence. If logic and basic human psychology riddle Aftermath’s story with holes, Winther’s direction doesn’t help. Aftermath Borrows Familiar Haunted House Tropes From Better Movies If he was sneaking out of his hiding spot to move a tennis ball and send text messages, couldn’t he have grabbed a snack? Come to think of it, if the man has the capacity to send out articulate text messages, why does he look and behave like he’s mindless? And what about Natalie’s sister, Dani? ,Even if she was only dead for a few days, that body (still in the house) would certainly smell. Did this man have no job? Friends? How long was he hiding inside the house? When he finally emerges on screen he’s “rail thin” and lacks capacity for basic human communication. Though it’s hard to pick one the fact that a jilted lover would murder his lover and her husband and choose to just live out life inside the walls of their home stands out. Here, Aftermath establishes that its married couple are just complete idiots. From that point onward, Aftermath raises one baffling question after another until your head spins. But Winther and co-writer Dakota Gorman have their couple knowingly move into the house because … couples therapy. At least Sinister set up a vaguely plausible reason for its true crime author to secretly movie his family into a ‘murder house’. Yes, every haunted house movie needs some reason to for someone to stay. Straight out of the gate writer and director Peter Winther adopts an honest approach to handling the ‘haunted house’ challenge. Chief amongst its sins is a braindead story. Regardless Aftermath is an absolute stinker of a movie. Perhaps the lack of a proper trailer was a warning sign. SPOILERS FOLLOW IN THE REVIEW BELOW Aftermath Haunted By a Moronic Story Soon Natalie is convinced that someone – or something – is terrorizing them. But things rapidly escalate into far more chilling warnings. Early on they’re just small things – sounds in the night, household items going missing and later re-appearing, items delivered with neither Kevin nor Natalie ever ordering them. Once they’re moved in, strange things almost immediately occur. There’s only one catch – the previous owners died in a murder-suicide. And it’s a dream house at a remarkably low price. With his marriage on the rocks, Kevin Dadich takes his therapist’s advice and convinces his wife, Natalie, to buy a new house.
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