Visions

I was surprised by this one. First, I've never heard of it and it has several names in it - Isla Fisher, Jim Parsons, Eva Longoria (who I didn't recognize until she spoke). It's a solid ghost story with a twist that I almost had figured out - but not quite.

Isla Fisher's character and her husband have just moved to a vineyard and are expecting their first child. She was in a car accident the year before - which is always a red flag for idiotic "she was in a coma the whole time and dreamed it" twist. But wait, it gets better.

So they settle in and she makes a new friend at mommy yoga, but soon she begins having hallucinations and thinking she's losing her mind. Her husband and doctor want to put her on anti-depressants, but she thinks the hallucinations are ghosts that inhabit the house. She soon finds out that the previous owner had similar experiences in the house and that does not help her paranoia. It's a good mystery, which I always enjoy.

The twist is not what you expect, and it was well done. I kept going back and forth between thinking that the husband was gaslighting her (see the movie Gaslight for a complete description of this) and waiting for some lame "it was all a dream because she's in a coma" twist. I'm not giving the twist away but the way it all plays out is different from the other tired horror movie endings I've seen in recent years, and didn't make me want to throw stuff at the screen. So that's always good.

I do recommend this one: it has mystery, suspense, some creepy scenes (pay attention during these and maybe you'll guess the twist earlier than I did) and a good, believable ending.