Wonderful character development!

Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I had this movie in my watch list for some time and had avoided watching it after reading all of the negative reviews. I eventually decided to give it a go and it was much better than I expected.Everyone is saying the acting is really bad, I disagree. A couple of lines throughout the movie were delivered poorly but they were few and far between. I would rate the acting better than average as I have seen some real stinkers.The story is another thing that seems to be getting a bashing. The story was what kept me watching. It isn't a retelling of the Lizzie Borden murders as some seem to think, they simply used the original story and expanded on it. There was nothing that I didn't understand after the movie finished and nothing disjointed about the story.This is a well done, interesting B movie. I am a B movie aficionado and this sits well in the middle of the pack.

Dammit Corbin Bernsen, my admiration of you as an actor has really got me in trouble this time. This insipid little bit of awfulness about a descendant/reincarnation of Lizzie Borden is atrocious in almost every conceivable way, be it the horribly stunted dialog, the glaring continuity gaffes, the haphazard plot-line. All of which simply reeks of amateur hour. I've watched a few awful movies on Netflix as of late, but this... Wow yea I'm speechless (which doesn't happen often, or as any of my exes would attest to, not often enough) One of the few movies that really make me sad that this site's guidelines don't let one cuss, as this film is one big steaming pile of...

I find the story of Lizzie Borden so interesting and watch everything I can find on it. This movie, however, really had nothing to do with it. The cover art shows the Lizzie Borden house in the background, but this movie didn't take place in the house! Why was Lizzie Allen seeing the maid and the Borden ghosts when they weren't even living in the same house? Made no sense at all. Could of been OK had it been the LB house, still not great, but maybe watchable. And lay off the wine already! I guess that was why she was having all the visions, mixing tons of alcohol with pills. The acting wasn't as bad as some people have reviewed (in my opinion). I thought Corbin Bernsen did a good job.

There are several things wrong with this movie: 1) The plot makes no sense. 2) Things that happen are largely not explained. 3) When someone is swinging an axe, stand well away from them. 4) Weakly hitting a door with an axe a few times won't make it open. 5) Why wasn't Lizzie Allen freaked out when she awoke to see Maggie standing in her room holding an axe? 6) Why wasn't Lizzie Allen weirded out when Maggie/Bridget let herself into the house the first time? 7) Doesn't everyone know not to mix alcohol and medications? 8) We never learn what the deal is with the creepy old doll. 9) Why was there a random sex scene for a few seconds? Do breasts make a movie better? 10) Could the props department have chosen a more annoying alarm clock? 11) Why have Maggie/Bridget show up wearing a turn-of-the-century maid's costume? 12) What was the purpose of Jason being possessed by Lizzie Borden's mother? 13) How could Lizzie Allen not know her own address? That's just stupid! 14) Also, the police department wouldn't answer right away, and an address search would not be instantaneous. 15) So, are the ghosts of the Lizze Borden tragedy doomed to repeat their last moments for all eternity? Is that what we're supposed to glean from this sequence? 16) Gary Busey? Really?! He's certainly crazy enough to play the role very well. 17) So, Lizzie Allen sees Maggie/Bridget being raped and simply leaves the room? 18) Mr. and Mrs. Borden don't wield the hatchet with enough force to cause the bad special effects blood spray that results. Super lame! 19) The special effects are laughable, amateur, and shoddily done at best. 20) The Lizzie Borden house has not been a private residence in decades. No one could live there in modern times. 21) Continuity: Maggie/Bridget was NEVER wearing a yellow shirt in any of the scenes until her body is found on the floor. 22) With a neck wound like Jason's there would be more bleeding, spatter, etc. 23) Was the gun there the whole time? 24) Who would keep a gun in a certifiably crazy woman's house? 25) The ending montage makes no sense at all. 26) Shooting oneself in the head would leave bits of brain matter plastered to the wall, not just low viscosity blood. 27) Why would Lizzie Allen's father be missing an eyeball? 28) Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murder, so why does she say, "Society will pay?" That makes no sense whatsoever. 29) Lastly, a corpse cannot be possessed. Furthermore, why would Lizzie Borden's ghost want to possess Lizzie Allen's corpse in the first place. Seriously, do not waste your time with this atrociously bad piece of garbage. You will never get those two hours of your life back, and you will be really angry about it.