Although "Ring Around the Rosie" was filmed with normal video cameras, it all the same has the look and feel of those ultra cheap shot on videotape movies that popped up in video stores in the 1980s. Needless to say, the low budget means that we don't get that much in the way of special effects or elaborate set pieces. The only way then the movie could have been saved is with the writing, but even in that area the movie fails miserably. The end credits for the movie list FIVE screenwriters, and it shows. The movie can't make up its mind as to what kind of horror movie it's supposed to be. It wavers between being a haunted house movie, a psychological thriller, and a mad psycho thriller, none of which is particularly interesting or creepy. A lot of that is due to the often incoherent nature of the movie. Things happen with no explanation or subsequent investigation (or action) by the heroine, and the characters (particularly the heroine) are murky and hard to get a handle on. How this extremely badly planned and executed project got a star like Tom Sizemore to appear in it, I cannot say. Maybe it was a favor for a friend, but I would bet that friendship was severely tested when Sizemore saw the finished results.

The story of this film was all over the place. They do tell you by the end what it is about. I guarantee when you find out, you will still have a confused look on your face. The cast wasn't too bad. Gina Philips seemed to have this weird scream in the film that made no sense though. Oh look a mouse, SCREAM. Oh look a guy with an knife, small yell. Tom Sizemore on the overhand made a pretty cool creepy guy. At points he will really get on your nerves because you know he has a screw loose. The film does have its scary moments, but the confusing story line makes it a bit tough to really get scared. A few more jumping scenes or ghosts could of done the trick to at least make you love the movie for that, but it lacked a bit in that area too. So it had the potential, but failed.

God this was bad.....Tom Sizemore was great as the slightly off caretaker. But what was he thinking? Probably just wanted to make a movie with Gina Philips. She is hot. But, what was she thinking? No one seemed to like Jeepers Creepers. I did. I thought she was great in that. And now I see she will be in Creepers 3. I'm looking forward to seeing it.But this film was a serious mess. Usually you see a horror movie like this and say ........hmmm, it must mean something, but I'm not seeing it. Or..........I get it......this must have happened blah blah....but this film doesn't allow for any of that. It's blatantly incoherent. The only way it would work is if you re-wrote it. And why do that. I think it was trying to be a cliché, but that wasn't even working......I'm not going to go into details. Basically......girl goes back to childhood house, haunting memories(of what..who knows!) Girl figures it out. My money says she really didn't figure anything out. Gina took the money and ran. It took me a while to get my DVD player to play this film. It keep giving me a code instead of playing. I'll know better the next time to listen to my player....the code probably meant "movie sucks, back away from the remote"......don't waste your time, unless you're curious and would like to write a creatively bad review. That's the most fun you're going to have with this film..........

Boy, I must be unlucky. Two banal and pointless movies in one week (the other being the extremely bland "Shallow Ground", for reference). I don't think I've been this unfortunate in a long time. Anyway, this is the story of a woman, Karen, who moves back into her grandparents' home after her grandmother dies, following her last wish. She's going to clean up the house and then sell it and marry her boyfriend. But what happens when she starts reliving the horrors of her past every single night?This seemed promising, like some kind of Amityville Horror or The Shining-type of film. It had the lead actress from Jeepers Creepers, which I thought was a good movie overall. So this one was a good pick for me, and I didn't bother reading reviews or anything. But ehh...it's just mediocre at best, if not flat out awful. The acting is...terrible...especially from Gina Phillips, who was nowhere near this horrible back in Jeepers Creepers. Maybe it's the awful script. She screams way too much and they go on for too long. The caretaker is meant to 'become increasingly more violent', but it's actually more like one moment he's nice and kind and the next moment he's a freak. Doesn't make much sense. By the end it's barely even a horror movie. I don't know what to call it, but this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.I did give it a point or two extra for making me think, because there is a really intriguing idea buried here if you look hard enough. The ending of the movie seemed trite and lame to me, until I thought about it, and realized exactly what the whole thing meant. All the hazy, distorted flashbacks, the missing pages in the kids' book, and Pierce's sexually violent nature...all of it leads up to something that I think I'll let you figure out yourself. This may be a terrible film, but I had to give it a point for making me think and realize the meaning behind some stuff here.