The Haunting of Alice D

2014

Action / Horror / Thriller

32
IMDb Rating 2.9/10 10 513 513

prostitute supernatural haunted house curse ghost

Plot summary

In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice's ghost, and was eventually abandoned. More than a century later, the old structure is renovated into a beautiful mansion. It is still rumored to inhabit the ghost of Alice. Despite this, the new owner; the rich and arrogant heir to the Davenport fortune, decides to throw a wild party for his first night in the house.

Director

Jessica Sonneborn Photo
Jessica Sonneborn

Top cast

Kane Hodder Photo
Kane Hodder as Sr. Davenport
Sarah Nicklin Photo
Sarah Nicklin as Delilah
Nick Apostolides Photo
Nick Apostolides as Sam
Al Snow Photo
Al Snow as Henchman
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582.12 MB
1280*512
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 1
1.21 GB
1920*768
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kannibalcorpsegrinder 2 / 10

A really problematic and barely worthwhile genre effort

Moving into a refurbished mansion house, a group of friends decides to celebrate the occasion with a get-together involving them and some friends for a special party, but when they realize that the house is home to a vengeful girl's spirit who killed herself there years ago must try to get away alive.This was a wholly disappointing if slightly enjoyable genre effort. One of the few good parts here is the workable setup that offers the kind of decent starting point for this kind of feature. The backstory of the location, involving the means through which the girl and her mother get taken in by the prostitution house and sold into that line of business which includes numerous sexual escapades with the owner to the point that she finally sought to kill herself to escape, offers the kind of sympathetic turn that's required for the film to bring us into her plight. With the modern-day encounters of the group arriving to party and using it for their vices during the night, including drugs, sexual kinks, and other shady dealings, the tie-in becomes quite well-established enabling it to work rather nicely not just as a revenge vehicle but also as a subtle dig at this type of behavior which is the main selling point here. There are several big issues here holding this one down. The main detriment is the absolutely appalling and decidedly idiotic main party that takes place here which has a ton of issues with it. Starting with the idea of why it would be a good idea to have a party like this at a location that has the history it does as the family connection itself is more than enough to consider it questionable, how it takes place is immensely hard to sit through. With no one around to care for as the main group are degenerate sexists who call into question why their guests are hookers and prostitutes before berating them for going into that line of work while they're nameless figures without common sense to leave the situation despite how they're treated, it takes an insurmountable effort to figure out who we're supposed to care for here. With it also being too cheap to be able to afford any kind of music or other party favors usually found in these kinds of films, this one suffers in that regard. The other really big issue here is the film's lack of embracing its genre attributes. The fact that the original ghost was sentenced to the area based on her history of being a prostitute and most of the cast is rounded out by modern-day prostitutes who are brought to the house specifically to sleep with the guys provides the motive for a lot of glorious sleaze to be employed here yet this has practically nothing at all. All the sexual shenanigans are done while clothed and all we see otherwise are brief glimpses that are far removed from the type of genre effort this is set up to be leaving this part curiously muted. Even worse is the overt lack of blood or gore as these are all done exclusively off-camera or at an obscured angle which makes it impossible to tell what's going on or even provide any kind of cheesy gore for its kills which could've made this one somewhat better. Some of the confrontations do get somewhat suspenseful, especially in the second half where the characters being under the influence makes it harder to tell what's happening so it has some suspense, but beyond that, there's not a lot to this one.Rated Unrated:R: Graphic Language, drug use, several sex scenes, Violence, and Nudity.
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Reviewed by nogodnomasters 5 / 10

See you on the other side

His is a plot explanation spoiler review in case you haven't figured things out from the early clues, but not plot spoiler per se.

A large brothel was home to Alice a rebellious prostitute and committed suicide. Four generations later the family still owns the house and a party ensues of four guys and prostitutes. One woman supplies the party with LSD, which is delivered through the whisky which has a note "see you on the other side" some buzz words for acid users, i.e. Doors "Break on Through to the Other Side." A story is then planted in everyone's mind about Alice D which sounds a lot like LSD, get it...which unfortunately they couldn't create a decent movie around the pun no better than Joan or Arcadia.

The question as to how real is the ghost they briefly see or is it hallucination.

On a side note about LSD: placing it in a bottle is bad business as there is no way to measure dosage which is tough enough to begin with. The second aspect is that anyone who has done LSD, knows what the onset feels like (tingling at base of skull) and also know when they are on it. You just don't suddenly start to "see things." In fact most of the time you don't see things, you just think everything is funny...especially MST 3000 designed for acid users. I hate it when people who have heard one Grateful Dead song, think they know all about acid trips.

Guide: sex, brief rape, nudity.

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