This is a franchise that ran out of ideas pretty quickly on this evidence. This looks like the result of a meeting where random elements, mostly borrowed from better films were tossed in and then a script of sorts linking them to the haunted house was cobbled together. The resulting film is flat , illogical and deadly dull.
Tess Harper ( as Nancy )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Tess was already in her thirties and working in theatre and local TV when a casting director for the film Tender Mercies spotted her and she won the lead role. This was her second film. In 1987 she was Oscar-nominated for Crimes Of The Heart. She has worked steadily ever since in film and TV winning some new recognition in Breaking Bad between 2008 and 2010.
Candy Clark ( as Melanie )
Sex : No
Death : Burns to death in an inexplicable car fire, the effect being spoiled by a ridiculous 3-D effect
Maybe it was a lack of respect for the material ( understandable ) but Candy's performance in this is awful.
Lori Loughlin ( as Susan)
Sex : No
Death : Drowns after falling out of a motorboat offscreen ( so that the film doesn't have to explain why her three friends don't simply pull her back on to the boat.
Lori began her working life as a model and began acting on daytime TV with a three year run in The Edge of Night from 1980. This was her first film role. Her film career has been unspectacular but she has achieved great success on TV in Full House, 90210 and When Calls The Heart. She co-created and starred in the series Summerland. In 2018, she was arrested for involvement with her husband in a college admissions scandal and served two months in prison in 2020. Most of her contracts were cancelled but she has done a bit of TV work since her release.
Meg Ryan ( as Lisa )
Sex : All talk, no action
Death : Survives
This was Meg's second film and she does inject some spark in her limited screen time. She was botn in Connecticut. Success on TV in
As The World Turns and supporting roles in films such as
Top Gun led to her breakthrough role in
When Harry Met Sally in 1989. She was an A-list star throughout the nineties but her major successes were all romantic comedies. Her attempts to break out of the mould in the noughties were less successful and her star waned particularly after the dismal erotic thriller
In The Cut in 2003. Her appearances since then have been sporadic. She has directed a couple of films since 2015 to general indifference. She has also had a high profile love life with marriage to Dennis Quaid and hook-ups with Russell CRowe and singer John Mellencamp.
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