That past… it’ll get ya. Claire and her husband Aaron (Aye! Zack Ward! Nice) move back into Claire’s old family house, following the death of her mother. The childhood home ain’t full of that many happy memories thanks to the trauma that goes along with an abusive mother (Shannon Doherty!). Her haunted history has pretty much turned Claire into an unlikable asshole, so it’s a little hard to root for her and it may explain why she had an imaginary friend in her lonely youth by the name of Bethany. This invisible little girl seems to still be hanging around the place. There’s tensions between Claire and Aaron involving what to do with the house and more trauma involving a miscarriage but they are seeing a relationship counselor (played by fuckin’ Tom Green!) via Zoom sessions. Anyways, Claire has flashbacks to her troubled childhood, hallucinates various bits of awfulness as Bethany begins to make her (its?) presence felt. Why? Well, there’s some more crap in Claire’s past that will explain that as well. It’s a really annoying film that wallows in its misery and doesn’t deserve the cast which could have been a whole lotta fun. It’s not though because if it’s miserable then you should be miserable too. The cast is capable and the ugliness is suitably unpleasant but it falters in its melodrama never really ringing true and it all just ends up being a real drag. The supernatural finally comes into play and we get a hilarious death for Tom Green… just wish it let shit get crazy with more than twenty minutes left. Not that it’s all that exciting but it’s way more watchable than the pity party we’ve been enduring.
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