This 2016 Canadian TV supernatural thriller was directed by Dominic James, starring Maria Bello and sisters Sophie Nelisse and Isabelle Nelisse. Other cast members including Liam Dickinson. Its based on the novel of the same name by Mary Downing Hahn. The film is also known as "Little Girl's Secret."
A teenager named Molly has had her life turned upside down when her widowed mother takes her and her younger brother Michael to move into a new place with stepfather. The location is rural and pretty isolated beside the woods, and the house used to be a church. They pick up their younger stepsister Heather from a psychiatric hospital where she was living after suffering trauma.
Molly is unnerved by Heather's strange behaviour such as talking to someone who isn't there. It gets freakier when she can see a ghost of a girl forming near Heather. No one believes her, and Heather says the ghost is "Helen" and "doesn't like it" that Molly can see her. Helen wants something from Heather and Molly is trying to find out if it's connected by missing children in the area.
This is a good, creepy and sad story with interesting photography. A theme of moths and flames appear a lot as symbolism. This is set in the year 1982 just in case you wondered why nobody is using a mobile phone. The author of the original story this film is based on appears briefly as the town librarian. The stepsister Molly and Heather are played by actresses who are real sisters. The actresses playing ghost Helen and one of the missing girls are sisters in real life. The stepfather's job is an author in the film, but in the book he works in pottery. I rate this a decent 10/10 for an awesome haunting story and good film to watch on a rainy night.
What I liked about this film is the nice bedroom of the girls with unique windows.
What I didn't like about it was how the parents didn't believe Molly.
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