Five students get a call telling them that their accommodation has been booked as their is no room at the student inn. They do not know who the other members of their ensemble are. Throughout the movie we see more of them as they begin to grow as characters. It is a nice touch but not a deft one. So they turn up to this house which is grand to say the least. Meet each other and get the film moving. A bit of exploring is done, there is a door which is padlocked. What is behind this door?The nice guy walks into Billy's room and notices a circular net, he asks billy what it is and she replies it is a spirit trap... I knew that as I had seen Dreamcatcher. Then they go downstairs and there is an old clock which one of them gets working, Billy pipes up (groan) that it is a spirit clock. Then they find a quiji board type thingy and it is off to the people having a séance type of thing, is there anybody there... which sets the movie up for the ghostly goings on.... Watch the movie and find out the rest of the plot.. The characters So it quickly becomes noticeable that the women are drop dead gorgeous and the guys are not. The characters are split into the nasty bloke and the nice bloke. The mysterious woman, the beautiful airhead and the homely babe (Billy Piper). For the most part the acting is of a high standard. Some of the dialogue is clichéd and lets the side down somewhat. Summing up This movie is quite good not a classic but well worth watching. Go and see it if you can as it is always good when a British horror movie comes out. The effects are good. The music is excellent throughout. It has a great title sequence and does not just launch into the movie. There are some good gore effects and on the whole the movie works well. Good if you like Lighthouse

I don't know what everyone is screaming about this film being horrible. The acting was pretty good, the story line was GREAT (the twist reminded me of Skeleton Key), and the effects were ample and done well. I would definitely watch this again. This kind of movie is one that you have to watch and pay VERY close attention, because the director and the writers threw facts and background at the viewer bit by bit, slowly, building up to the final climax. The only issue I had was that this is a British film, and I had a bit of a hard time understanding some of the dialog, especially when spoken quickly. Other than that, I liked it. I liked the story and the house, I would LOVE to have this house, just as it is.

There is a sad irony behind Billie Piper's character in this rather silly and uninteresting horror film and that is that she is a drama student, ie; she studies acting and must be good at it to pass. Just who is Billie Piper anyway? I'm sure independent filmmaker David Smith couldn't believe his luck when a name and a face as well known as Miss Piper's suddenly found its way to his latest project; his first and so far last directorial effort. But then again, the fact Billie's even in it gives it a now unwanted level of attention and that is due to the acting career Piper has had since.So Piper plays one of five students who have moved into a mysterious house because of its close proximity to a local college. They are Adele (Catherwood); Tom (Malby); Nick (Troughton); Tina (Alsou) and Piper herself playing the role of Jenny. Each character is to such a basic level that to say they adopt the typical teenage embodiment in a low grade, rental horror-come-slasher is a no-brainer. Adele is dressed up in high heels and a black dress: she's dangerous, loose and seductive; Tom is a fast talking and egotistical drug dealer whose previous life events are hinted at in the film but not revisited; Nick is disappointingly given a 'geek' persona tag and acts throughout in a very innocent and at times surprised manner with Jenny the one character who perhaps elevates herself beyond level one to level two. She is established to be independent through asking questions early on and her background (or perhaps her mother's) is relevant later on.But the characterisation in the film is so off colour that another former singer turned actress (Alsou, who plays Tina) is so non-existent in the film that it does not even need her; bar to show up nearer the end and pull some stern looking faces as the tension is supposedly cranked up – I don't think so. And so with this premise of five kids in one location for the odd night, Spirit Trap begins its slow and steady downward journey into familiar territory. By the end of the film we will have predicted a couple of jumps or maybe suffered one at most; we will have seen a couple of dire reaction shots; we will have witnessed the mutilation of a black man and we will have identified formula after a very brief while.Spirit Trap is really a mere horror thriller that takes place within the walls of a single location but the huge, huge flaw here is that the location is instantly open to being left. When we think of some contemporary examples of this formula, we might think of Alien, The Thing or Predator – each example embodying codes of the thriller, horror and possibly science fiction. Spirit Trap does this but in Alien, the characters had to stay and fight what they were fighting; likewise with The Thing and Predator, there was no way out of the snowy base nor was there the Brazilian jungle. In Spirit Trap, nothing is stopping any of its characters from leaving the house.But this sort of logic is dead in Spirit Trap, proof that the horror genre at least in British film will not be challenging the two dominant genres of comedy and gangster anytime soon. Jenny talks to an apparent landlady or accommodation officer before she arrives at the house and yet after a few hours of being at the house with the others, nobody shows up – isn't Jenny or anyone else suspicious? Secondly, Jenny actually goes to the college the next day for classes and stops off at the accommodation office but it appears the college don't even have an officer – this should've been enough to convince her to get up and leave. But hang on, the next instance she wakes up. Was it all a dream? Perhaps there is an accommodation officer after all and she must go and check in the 'real' world. Either way, things are made to look like they're answered but nothing ever actually gets achieved.Then there are the scenes involving eerie phenomenon's. Throughout the film's duration, people will see ghostly reflections in mirrors; wet footprints in their bedrooms leading up to their beds; items will mysteriously change places and bizarre spirit devices will literally write out words and yet nobody does a thing about it. Nobody informs anybody else of these events, nobody brings them up when Jenny begins to have visions later on and the character's reactions are very muted when these odd events occur. The film is very anti-climatic, Nick spends the film looking surprised; Jenny spends the film puzzled whilst threatening to start a relationship with Nick; Tom and Adele's relationship takes a turn for the worse when their drugs sub-plot opens up in a pointless and uninteresting manner and the film becomes at the very end a familiar routine of slasher, chase, slasher. Spirit Trap is a film with gaping logic, seriously one dimensional characters and comes with an electronic soundtrack - and I'm not talking about a Halloween style theme, either.

Spirit Trap is a typical, contemporary ghost story where everything is a result of something horrible, that has happened in the past and most of the film's runtime is used to unlock the secret. Usually most ghost stories resemble the classic horror movies about a haunted mansion, surrounded by darkness and mystery. Spirit Trap is a modern version of The Hauting. At least the first 20-25 minutes will be very familiar and probably boring for Haunting fans.Four students receive a phone call and are offered lodging in an old, creepy house. Of course, they are all different and problems occurs immediately after the house's newest inhabitants learn about the presence of a drug dealer as their co-tenant. Later on, one of the teens fixes a spirit clock and now he is able to witness the events that has taken part many years ago. The characters are now convinced that the house is haunted by ghosts.To be honest, I watched the movie out of desperation. I didn't have the time to pick up another horror movie and Spirit Trap was the only possibility. The movie is not bad. It ain't good either. Decent horror flick for time killing. One thing that managed to surprise me was the acting. Better than I asked for. Completely unknown actors give everything to recreate realism.We should also take notice on the fact that the movie is British. In my opinion, most good horror flicks come from Britain these days. Yes, Spirit Trap is not among the good lists of great horror movies, but it could have been much worse if it looked like most American ghost stories.I applaud the idea of putting more depth into a rather dull story, but the plot loses its potential soon after the creators create sub-plots concerning the characters's past. The main girl has killed her mother, the drug dealer's wife doesn't love him and stuff like that. Cheap tries of dry, needless drama that has absolutely nothing to do with what we cheer for when it comes to ghost flicks.I won't recommend Spirit Trap to anyone, but calling it bad is a big mistake. It tries something new and even though it fails in provoking the viewer, it includes scenes that worth a look.