Half Light - 2006 * *

Fear waits in the Half Light.

I really couldn't find anything credible in this film. Demi Moore is really an appalling actor, with perhaps the exception of one of my favourite movies 'Indecent Proposal'. The reality of a mother loosing her son in an accident and then rushing off to an island where she starts up a relationship with a random man doesn't seem highly likely to me. She leaves her home and her life with her husband to go and try writing on this island, telling him only that 'they can think about divorce when she comes back.' How irritating would that be if someone said that to you.

If a couple loses a child it is not just the mother who suffers. I found Moore's character immensly unlikeable and really felt the bare minimun of sympathy towards her as the film progressed.

The element of horror or thriller or whatever there was supposed to be was lukewarm at best, the ending came at you like a smack in the face- and a confusing and unneeded one at that. This film would have been better if it had been marketed as a drama about a mother's grief over a lost son instead of trying to stick in scary moments and ghostly images/goings on whenever there was a lull in concentration.