I dunno. I
wanted to like this one. I love haunted houses, and I love inexplicable rooms, and I love random assorted weirdness. But this one... honestly, I have to say that it was the writing that killed it for me. The dialogue was just cheesy. Melodramatic. I mean, nobody
talks like that outside of high school stage plays. The reader gave it all he had and really almost got it to sound natural, but not enough to salvage it for me.
Then the events started getting ridiculous and melodramatic, too. I mean, randomly kidnapped by a Wal-Mart associate? What? And then rape-murdered? Really? We're going with child sexual assault as the
opener? When the kid showed back up and did that now-standard Asian horror-film
crabwalk thing, I just went :-| because it felt like we were ripping off horror cliches, and not even horror cliches from the right medium. (The crabwalk thing is way creepier when you can see it.) (Scroll carefully at that comic, btw.)
Then they started explaining the random weirdness, and I lost interest completely. Her grandfather's watch that she stole drove her insane? Okay... Wait, he
murdered another child for a beach ball? o_0 Whaaaaaat? When random non-threatening objects are scary, I'm there with you. When they have silly over-the-top backstories attached, you lose me. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to find any of it creepy or scary.