Zwart Water (Elbert van Strien, 2010)

A mild Dutch haunted house film of the common garden variety, Two Eyes Staring has a family move into an inherited country mansion which turns out to be a repository for buried events in the mother's family history, manifesting as ghostly visitations to her daughter. The film is tidily shot and well cast, but manages little sense of menace as the wheels begin to fall off the narrative logic of the plot, and musters no more originality than its Hollywood slasher cousins for all its psychological aspirations.

4/10