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Product Description Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate’s ancestral home in the country. Once there, Emily is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home. When Nate’s behavior undergoes a strange and fearful metamorphosis, Emily fears she might be the latest target in a murderous tradition. .com This sharp, well-crafted entry in the Lionsgate After Dark Originals horror series is a pretty timeless haunted-house movie that sets up a premise and builds with workmanlike tension that's neatly effective in gathering dread and throwing out scares. Nate and Emily are a young New York couple who after experiencing a miscarriage move to an old farmhouse upstate in an effort to heal Emily's psychic trauma and give Nate a place to concentrate on his work as a painter. The place is hardly rundown, but it has a creepy aura that immediately starts to manifest in subtle ways, betraying past events that happened there--none of them very pleasant. An old chest in the attic reveals portrait photographs that display eerie resemblances to Nate and Emily. Various other clues, including newspaper clippings, ancient artifacts, and research done by the absentminded town archivist, also reveal a history of violence that has dogged the house and its previous inhabitants for the past 100-plus years. There's even a decades-old skeleton uncovered in the front yard when the drain-rooter guys send their video camera snake down a clogged sewer pipe. Concurrent with these discoveries, Emily finds out she's pregnant again, an unexpected development that it seems might have something to do with the house itself and the history of mystery that has touched everyone who lived there. The film is divided into chapters that are sometimes a little facile in spelling out the goings on, with headings such as "Starting Over," "Strange Happenings," and "Revelations." There's a touch of the fake-dramatic and an overly ominous portent that hovers over some of the proceedings, but the production design is terrific, the cinematography and editing skillful, and the acting squarely on caliber for the overall tone. Things do get kind of overwrought as the climax approaches: the perfectly cued thunder and lightning builds to an absolute paroxysm of horrific booming and flashing that's timed to the inevitable bouts of screaming. But Fertile Ground is an efficient and satisfying little thriller with just the right touch of natural and supernatural frights and an ending that's pretty genuinely creepy. --Ted Fry
D**L
Great suspense, Leisha Hailey shines in a complex performance
This is one of the better After Dark films. It sacrifices gore for deeper characters, better cinematography and more nuanced direction. Leisha Hailey plays a wife who has had a miscarriage and moves to the country with her loving husband in order to heal psychologically. Unfortunately the house, belonging to her hubby's family, has a very dark history and is anything but calming. It's a quieter After Dark outing but I think a better film for it.
J**R
Fertile Ground- Kept you wondering
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Fertile Ground. To be honest I only got the move because of Gale Harold, I'm not a big fan of horror movies. But this move wasn't all blood and guts you see now, it was more suspense and I liked that. The movie kept you guessing and had some good twists and turns. Only down side I saw was it could have used more Gale!
S**H
Fertile Ground - Mildly Absurd
Not being a screen writer I have to applaud those writers who come up with fresh new ideas or interesting twists on old ideas. I also love when they come up with clever and subtle visual devices that allow your imagination to work over time and suspend disbelief. Hard to do when you're dealing with topics not based in reality.Unfortunately, this movie has none of those qualities.The problem with Fertile Ground is not that it's bad all the way around. The problem is that it actually starts out totally believable with good acting, especially on the part of Leisha Haley (the wife), and then it just turns cheeserific with ridiculous make-up/special effects and bad acting by Gale Harold (the husband).This is one of those movies where they should have acknowledge the limitations of their budget and worked with it either by writing scenes to layout the story without cheap special effects and casting in a way to meet the needs of the film. The last 30 minutes in particular made the entire movie seem silly and amateurish.I'm keeping it at a three because it's not an entire waste of time, but those last 30 minutes really almost brought this down to a 2.
C**E
Great DVD.
Never seen anything like it on television ever before until I bought the DVD and I enjoy looking at it and right up to the day from the time I bought it I still enjoy it so anyone looking for a great DVD to look at go ahead and purchase this one. It's a great one.
E**S
Fertile Ground (After Dark Originals)
Good movie. Not the best ever made, but there aren't a lot in that category anyway that are Horror. lol Enjoyed it and will watch it again.
K**Y
Different
Again, I bought this movie because I am a GALE HAROLD fan. I enjoyed watching Gale act and showing different sides of his personality. The flashbacks were relevant but I got a little lost at times in the story line. I know story was about history repeating itself and the past influencing the relationship of people living in the house. I am not sure I would buy this again unless you are a real GALE HAROLD fan like me.
I**L
Can you say unbelievable mental thriller?
This is one of those movie that you find yourself saying "I'm so sorry that such a once glowing wife had to end up a killing machine"! I really felt bad about her killing her best friend, but let it be a lesson; watch where you go in the dark!
K**R
Great!
Very scary, great movie and cast.. wish the end was different as we never found out if it was in her mind or real. But one of the better horror films I have seen.
L**T
Good Horror Movie
This was a good horror movie. It was very suspenseful. It is about a couple who move from the city to the country. After they purchase their house, they hear several creepy stories about it. They notice unusual noises and things moving on their own. The stress builds for them until they meet a horrible fate. If you like horror movies, you will likely want to watch this one.
F**E
Très bon service
Très bon service et un bon film
S**E
Great suspense - good movie to watch from under the ...
Great suspense - good movie to watch from under the covers. Kind of ironic that he played an artist in this movie.
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