What a bad little movie, unnecessarily extended to 108 minutes. I really enjoyed «Ich seh, ich seh,» with its vein of double evil with its final "turn of the screw." Here two children are an echo of those, but their childhood evils end up tangled in a plot of a psychotic religious fanatic who flips out without her pills. The film is slow, long and with several tricky scenes without dramatic value or scares: for example, Mia tells Grace that she heard a noise, which creates expectations for the viewer, but flatly concludes with a creaking window, without the expected bang. «The Lodge» ends up being a very disappointing film.
