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Spirit Trap
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Time Out says
A handful of students are naively chuffed
to find themselves assigned to a run-down north London manor house where
imposing staircase, creepy cellar, locked attic and blood-drenched history come
as standard. Then nice guy Nick (Sam Troughton) has a rummage inside a
mysterious old clock and things start to go bump in the night for him,
troubled, sensitive Jenny (Billie Piper), distant, vampish Tina (Russian
R&B singer Alsou), wide-boy dealer Tom (Luke Mably) and his arsey
girlfriend Adele (Emma Catherwood).
Despite restricting
its action to this bijou version of the archetypal old, dark house, ‘Spirit
Trap’ – which is more ghost yarn than slasher flick – struggles to achieve real
claustrophobia. Former commercials director David Smith offers some eerily lit
interiors and there are effective (if derivative) moments of perception-warping
paradox or conscience-pricking visitation; there are even some Hideo
Nakata-style waterworks. But the script’s lumbering pace, yawn-making backstory
and cloth-eared dialogue prove too great an obstacle: credit to Troughton for
managing to mumble Nick’s admission that he’s ‘not very good at small talk’
with a straight face.
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