The movie open with a young girl having a nightmare in Portland, Oregon. We immediately noticed this 10 year old girl is dubbed by a woman in her 20's. In the dream she enters a creepy basement while clasping her white teddy bear with an orchid around its neck. She drops the bear, a creepy ogre appears and takes the orchid while she hides. The girl wakes up and her teddy bear is missing!
The next scene is disconnected. We finally figure out the adult woman, Cheryl, with her family is the same little girl. She writes horror stories for a living. They rent a vacation home in Italy near a village known for its orchids and creepy people, one of which everyone thinks is a witch.
While in the villa, Cheryl finds secret rooms and passages. She is inspired to write. She also finds that same identical creepy basement in her nightmare and she finds her teddy bear! Eat you heart out Stephen King! She writes, sleeps, gets more nightmares... Reality, the nightmares and her story start to blend together until they become one.
The acting didn't seem too bad, but whatever good acting that may have been there was erased by the mediocre dubbing. I liked the connection of the village that raises orchids with a legend of an ogre. The childhood to adult nightmare connection was also done well and the women were pretty.
**PLOT SPOILER **The big negative was the aforesaid dubbing. The soundtrack was tiresome. The movie builds up to a climax scene that was short by modern standards. They spend all that time to build up the characters and the story only to have it end with a Chief Cherokee? What were they thinking?
I think this would be a 8 star movie if they simply guttered the dubbing and soundtrack and redid the whole thing.
Nudity, No f-bombs.
The next scene is disconnected. We finally figure out the adult woman, Cheryl, with her family is the same little girl. She writes horror stories for a living. They rent a vacation home in Italy near a village known for its orchids and creepy people, one of which everyone thinks is a witch.
While in the villa, Cheryl finds secret rooms and passages. She is inspired to write. She also finds that same identical creepy basement in her nightmare and she finds her teddy bear! Eat you heart out Stephen King! She writes, sleeps, gets more nightmares... Reality, the nightmares and her story start to blend together until they become one.
The acting didn't seem too bad, but whatever good acting that may have been there was erased by the mediocre dubbing. I liked the connection of the village that raises orchids with a legend of an ogre. The childhood to adult nightmare connection was also done well and the women were pretty.
**PLOT SPOILER **The big negative was the aforesaid dubbing. The soundtrack was tiresome. The movie builds up to a climax scene that was short by modern standards. They spend all that time to build up the characters and the story only to have it end with a Chief Cherokee? What were they thinking?
I think this would be a 8 star movie if they simply guttered the dubbing and soundtrack and redid the whole thing.
Nudity, No f-bombs.