Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Find Me’

Written by Scott Edwards

There are times when you need to make a change in your life and sometimes it takes you back to your hometown. There are so many people that are afraid of doing this, since their past can come back to bite them in the face, but as the years have gone by, there may be no one left that you even know. You never know where you will find yourself if you are looking for home, and sometimes you never truly left it in the first place.

Arriving at their new home, Tim and Emily are excited and ready to start off their lives together. Despite the fact that Tim has a job as a teacher in the next town over, this seems to be the perfect move for both of them. Emily is excited to be in her childhood town once again and is able to reconnect with her high school bestie Claire after being gone for so long. Wanting to get her house in order, Emily is starting to think that there is something strange happening in the shadows and when she and Claire are able to see someone standing in the back yard, they are more excited than afraid. 

After unpacking her old music box, Emily starts to catch strange glimpses of something in the mirror, and this only seems to happen whenever Tim leaves the house. Not knowing what all of this means, or how to explain it or if the ghost in the house actually likes the device, Emily makes the decision to leave everything alone in the house for the afternoon and discovers that there is a message waiting for her when she returns. 'Find Me' is written on the mirror inside of the box and although she does not understand what it means, she shows it to Tim, but he is stumped as well. Wanting to know who or what is in the house with them, Emily lets Claire know about the strange occurrences going on in the house and as any best friend would do, she offers her help.

Attempting a séance and failing, Emily has an incredibly strange nightmare that she can actually remember. Seeing her shower covered in blood and being attacked by a ghost that looks like her, she is starting to put the pieces together, but is not ready to tell everyone else what might be happening. But when Claire and Emily find a crawl space in one of the rooms and are able to pull out a group of pictures of little girls from around the area, Emily sees that a girl with her likeness is in the group. Checking on everyone that they could remember and seeing that they are fine, Emily knows that it is time to come clean with her husband about what might actually be happening. Having a twin sister that went missing as a child and living in an old creeper's house, the haunting is being caused by her dead sister, but what she cannot understand is the age of the ghost, since her sister was only six years old when she went missing. Being tormented by the ghost, Emily needs to find out what actually happened to her sister, but her new house holds deadly secrets that it may not want to give up just yet.

A tale of trust betrayed on more than one level I think, that is at least what I picked up from this flick. Watching how Emily tries to understand what is happening to her is different since she is not willing to come clean about her past and what happened during her childhood. I don’t think she was willing to admit it to herself, even after saying that the ghost kind of looked like her. The overall highlights in the film, besides the creepy ghost was the call out of horror movie mistakes by the characters and how they are not willing to give in to the ghost's will. Overall, it is not too bad of a movie and when you find out what happened to Emily’s sister, you can see why she wanted to torment her to the point of no return. Stay Scared.

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