The movie opens with a dream sequence from Anna (Emily Browning), about the night her mother died. When Anna related the dream to a doctor in the mental hospital where she's confined, he pronounces her well on the road to recovery and sends her home to her family. While she's happy to see her father (David Strathairn) and sister Alex (Arielle Kebbel), Anna immediately locks horns with Rachael (Elizabeth Banks), her father's fiancee. It seems that only about a year ago, Anna's mother was dying of some lingering disease and Rachael was her nurse ... and a mysterious fire killed Anna's mother. Anna can't remember what exactly happened on the night of the fire, and no one else seems to know. The suspense is focused on just how wicked Rachael might be, and what the two sisters can do to find out the truth. In addition, Anna has supernatural and gruesome dreams ... but maybe they're not dreams at all.
It is based on a south Korean movie called A Tale of Two Sisters. Someone in Hollywood is trawling all the Asian horror movies for ideas. The movie has the jump moments, a few bits of gore, but I thought the tension builds nicely to an interesting climax. It is only 87 minutes, so there are no extraneous scenes. I am starting to enjoy seeing horror movies that aren't torture porn and will seek out more of these.
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