The host of his own home remodeling show titled Mastering Disaster along with his daughter and crew begin working on their latest project; a beautiful old home in the middle of a crumbling Detroit neighborhood. There’s still an inhabitant hanging around the building in the form of a specter who doesn’t wait to show itself to the hawt blonde daughter. There’s a door that doesn’t seem to lead to anything, the disturbing idea that the interior measurements are coming up larger than the outside would allow, a family history of hallucination which may make the daughter a little unreliable and the crumbling morale amongst the crew thanks to the host’s dwindling patience. Everything goes to hell in record time as some bad injuries occur on the first day of filming, a fire spontaneously erupts, one dude just walks off set and some people up and vanish. An old local warns the daughter that the house is just wrong and tells her she should leave town before it’s too late. He also shows her a picture of the man who built the place and it’s definitely the ghostly figure she’s been seeing. The job goes on and things get worse but a job is a job. The producer decides it’s weird enough that they can shoot a Halloween episode and they even do a cleansing ritual made possible by the Cuban Buddhist who they brought on when the crew abandoned the set. The monks tell them there’s something very wrong and the house shouldn’t exist. They also warn everyone to leave. Rebecca seems hypnotized by that locked door that goes nowhere and even the host is beginning to get a bad vibe from the Michigan home. Bits of unexpected and nasty violence may get you cringing because it feels so out of place which makes it surprisingly effective and the cast is solid across the board. Eric Allan Kramer (Little John from Robin Hood: Men in Tights) is spot-on in his portrayal as the show host and some of the best bits belong to the scenes where they ape the reality TV genre. A good mix of comedy, unspeakable horror and flawed but likable humans makes for an unexpected treat. The ending kinda blows but not enough to make the buildup feel like a complete waste of time.
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