Nerds That Geek Movie Review: 'Paranormal Apparition'

Written by Scott Edwards

Making a house a home is something that takes time and is never done in one night. While many people have to relocate to find the perfect job or place that they can afford, we find that some of the places that we live or lived were really never home to us. Finding that perfect place that you will stay for the rest of your lifetime is difficult, but once you do find the perfect situation, you have to take it. Not knowing what the future will hold is something that frightens many people, especially when they get older and nothing seems to be coming together, so it is important to stick with it and keep your head up, because if you don’t want to see what the future has in store, you are missing out on the game.
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With money blowing a hole in their pockets, Evelyn and her new husband Charles are ready to move up in life to a new home. Arriving at a massive house that was owned by a famous actress, they find out that the price is right up their alley and are ready to make an offer, but there is a catch, the actress was killed in the house and her body was never found. As Evelyn is not sure about the backstory of the house, it does not shake Charles one bit and he is ready to put in an offer, because they will not find a better deal in their lifetimes. Accepting this, Evelyn caves in and lets her daughter, Danielle know that this will be the new place that they will be calling home.

After taking a break from moving boxes up to her room, Danielle spots a strange shadow looming in the guest house and wants to know who it could be. Finding the keys to guesthouse, she heads over to find that her step-father will be using this area as his office and does not want the young woman snooping around in it. Knowing that there is something out of the ordinary going on in the house, Danielle makes her way down to the mailbox to see what they got for the day and gets greeted by her neighbor Natalie who is happy to see someone living in the house after the past couple years of the house being vacant.  But there is more to the house than Danielle knows, as Natalie tells her the story of the actress that lived there, thus filling in who the shadow could be that is lurking in the hallways. 

Keeping this in the back of her mind, Danielle settles in for the night and gets a haunting visit from the spirit that is looming in the house. Trying to explain to Charles what is going on with her, her step-father shoots down the story to her imagination playing tricks on her and confirms to her that they will not be moving from the house whether it is haunted or not. But the spirit in the house will not accept that as Danielle becomes a target and is shown everything that happened in the house on one-night years ago when Stephanie Halstead was brutally murdered by her producer. Trying to tell her parents what is happening in the house, nobody will believe her and she is forced to look for outside help in dealing with the occult, but that may not be enough as she finds out that there was something much more sinister that happened in the house and it will not stop unless she can free the spirit of Stephanie to help protect her.

This one features a bit of a different spin on the haunted house story and that and the story’s look at immortality caught me off guard in a good way because I liked this movie, which also goes by the name Cold Blood Canyon. It would be very disconcerting for any child to have strange things happening to them and not have their parents believe them and that added an abundance of tension to the storyline. I liked how Danielle was able to make new friends quickly in her new surroundings, but I did not like the Jeff aspect of the story, because he really did not serve a purpose to the story, other than being the token horny guy. With a ghost in the house, flying nail polish, a creepy shadow, a locked off room, disturbing images from the past and a mystery that needs to be solved to save a broken family, this is a pretty good ghost story with a fun ending. While I doubt I will ever want to live in a haunted house, I sure would like to visit some more of them to see what is going on, mainly because I want to see a ghost. Stay Scared.

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