Haunter

Lisa's been repeating the same day for...well, she doesn't know how long.  But now she's woken up, realizing that her life is on a cycle, and soon enough understanding that she and her family are ghosts.  As she tries to break herself and her family free, a more sinister presence reveals itself.

The story, the acting, the cinematography, all were pretty good.  This will make an excellent pre-teen slumber party movie.  (In the Q&A, the director, who's previous work was a bit more adult-oriented, said he made a point to make this film without a drop of blood onscreen.)  My only issue was with plot resolution.  Everything gets resolved, which is great, except it's done in a multi-scene twenty-minute climax that left me mentally exhausted.  I would have preferred to see the tension tweaked to turn the long plateau into a building towards the final confrontation.  But other than that, the film hits its marks.

Haunter
2013, 97 minutes, directed by Vincenzo Natali

Oh, Alamo, don't show 70s footage of a topless lady dancing in a bamboo cage while injecting herself with needles in the pre-footage before what will eventually be a PG film.  The 9-ish-year-old actress who came to the premiere of her first film should not have seen that.