Very Cool!!!

To me, this movie is perfection.

Good concept, poorly executed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Or was it tree? Apart from word-plays and jokes that might or might not be funny, the movie has a lot of issues. One being its lead actor (some might argue that calling him that is a stretch, but think about Steven Seagal). There are not many emotions on display, especially if you try to find some on his face.On the other hand you have many of the downfalls of horror movies and the clichés involved. It may not be the most original story but it would have done the trick, if it were better executed and had a better script. I did mention the "acting" on display or the missing of it to be more exact. There are a few nice moments, but too few and far in between ...

A young girl arrives home (presumably from school) and comes home to a strange sight; her father isn't home, but he has left a note that he has left for Kansas City and her brother is upstairs in bed. Only there are footsteps in the house and her brother isn't in bed. She has a gone soon in tow and she is off to see just what is going on. Her brother's screams can be heard in the distance, and all she sees in the sun is a strange man. Poltergeists? Ghosts? Supernatural creatures maybe? The movie would have us think so, and with many of the amazing lens flares, lighting angles, surreal scenery and dark ambiance thrown about, is it ever a wonder! This movie plays heavily on special effects and established horror movie elements, but throws any of them together when they don't belong. This can be attested to in the documentary where the special effects artist goes into detail about some of the special effects; it looks more like they were included as filler or simply for show. However, they do a great job early on leading us in one direction, but the movie starts to fall apart in the latter half when most of what is going on is revealed. I did find the movie genuinely terrifying for the first half – we never truly see the creatures; but once things are revealed I thought the movie was a bit trite. You may feel different.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=6848).

Here is a riddle for you, what is worse than a rubbish film? How about a film that is confusing rubbish? "Treehouse" starts reasonably well, and tries to build both atmosphere and suspense. At the end of the day though, the only thing it succeeds in breeding is confusion. A girl comes home to an empty house; we are led to believe her brother has been kidnapped. Small town America, there has apparently been a spate of such kidnappings, now the fair has been cancelled. We are led to believe that some thuggish teens may have something to do with this. Then our hero and his brother find the lost girl - by accident - in a treehouse out in the woods. There are numerous flashbacks and suggestions of supernatural influences. His brother leaves to get help and doesn't return. Maybe our hero and the girl are dead, and this is purgatory. They make their way to a deserted farmhouse, deserted but for the murdered occupant. Are the thugs or whatever they are responsible? You figure it out. In short, this film deserves all the rubbishing reviews it has received and then some: utterly confusing, utterly pointless, a waste of time, a waste, period.

Treehouse starts well and the opening scene suggests this may be a small budget gem however any hope of this is quickly extinguished. The premise is decent, young adults and children are being kidnapped and it all seems linked to a strange tree house. Unfortunately a very poor script never even gets close to tapping the films potential. There are plenty of superfluous scenes that add little or nothing to the story. Treehouse changes direction at the drop of the hat as if the writer didn't quite know what he wanted the film to be, slasher, supernatural or gritty thriller. As a result we just get a jumbled mess of a film that is at times confusing and at times boring.Although it's a pretty poor film, it's not a total write off as there are at least a couple of decent scenes and some of the filming is quite good. I can't really recommend this film and am probably being a bit generous giving it a 5 but I have seen far worse films.