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).

'Treehouse' starts off in an intriguing manner with the very young looking Elizabeth (Dana Melanie) coming home to find her young brother 'little Bob' missing after, bizarrely, being left in the family house alone.Two brothers, the bullied Killian (J. Michael Trautmann) and wholesome Crawford (Daniel Fredrick) discover Elizabeth trapped in a treehouse, before Crawford disappears (he appears to be one of several figures hung from the tree in probably the film's most effective sequence) and the two youngsters then have to fend for themselves.What happens next is a jumble of flashbacks and tantalising glimpses of what appears to be a creature in the distance. The creature turns out to be one of three hillbillies who seem intent on killing the two juveniles.There were some sound problems (loud music and quiet dialogue), but 'Treehouse' has been shot and directed very well, much of the action appearing to take place in crisp early morning sunlight which helps give the woodland setting a stark, uncomfortable look. The acting too, is very good until the very end when the two surviving leads are required to be hardened and detached by events, ready to take on the world – which is asking too much and fails to convince.

Dreadful, dreadful, awful, sinful movie. For the duration of this film you will wish that you were actually one of the victims in it, rather than sat watching it as at least their suffering came to an end sooner than the 96 minutes of the film.It wasn't so much that the acting was SO bad (although it was), or that the characters were so one dimensional (one dimension feels like a luxury), but that the plot made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Most of the holes have been covered off in other reviews so no need to repeat them.While on the subject of reviews, I noted that the first three reviewers of this film all felt that *this* film, above all others, was so noteworthy and inspirational to review it positively and haven't reviewed any films before or since. Although I'm sure none are involved with the film, the production company, or the distributor.....

Let me start by saying I have absolutely no idea why I watched this through to the end. 5 minutes in and I knew it was all going to go even further downhill, but for some reason I stuck with it, in the vain hope that it would at some stage get better. It didn't. I'm struggling to find a single positive thing to say about it... Well, the scenery was nice. Erm...yep. That's it. Perhaps I could explain through the use of a judicious scoring system:Acting: 0. Direction: 0. Plot: -1 (No need to go through any plot points - there weren't any). Cinematography: 0. Overall experience: -10.I did enjoy my popcorn however, and at least I didn't go to the cinema to watch it as that would really have finished me off. This has to rank right up there with the worst dross I've ever seen.