Celluloid Heroes

Caroline (Kate Hudson) has a new job as a nurse to for a couple at a plantation. It seems that the husband needs constant care these days and the wife can't keep up by herself, and the nurses just keep running away. Something doesn't seem right, but Caroline needs a job and the money is good.

Sure enough, as soon as she gets there things start to go all funny. There are noises galore and that attic is the worst. It's got all sorts of spooky things in it and that Violet (the wife, played by the incomparable Gena Rowlands) has something up her sleeve.

Caroline suspects that she's actually drugging her husband to keep him from telling the secret. As she digs deeper she finds out all sorts of secrets about things that have gone on in that house, and she is determined to get husband Ben out of the house.

Finally she has her plan and she drugs Violet one night, then stashes Ben in the boathouse, but cannot get away. The lawyer she trusted turns her in and it turns out that he's in on it somehow. He and Violet are in on it together.

So Caroline draws a circle of protection on the floor around herself, and she knows that now they cannot get her. Sure enough, but as it turns out that means that she's stuck, for she cannot leave the circle, and that's just what they want. They come at her with that crazy music playing and before she knows it she has been drawn into that mirror, deeper and deeper.

At the end, Violet and Ben are carted off in the ambulance and Caroline - or at least, Caroline's body - and the lawyer are left to sort out the mess, for it seems that Violet has left her the house in the event the becomes incapacitated, and it appears that that is indeed what has happened, for Violet now cannot seem to speak, just as it was with her husband. Strange indeed. And now Caroline is smoking those same cigarettes that Violet was smoking. Nice twist indeed.

Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, some partial nudity and thematic material.

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