A parapsychologist confronts her own childhood demons when a haunting leads her back to her family home.
Suspenseful. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Max.
What we could confirm fits a PG-13: real scares and lots of jump scares.
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Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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