On a rainy night and after nearly crashing their car into a ditch, Andrew (Bug Hall) and Megan (Kat Steffens) arrive at their new country home.  Andrew is a writer.  Megan is a painter.  At first, their new home seems like the perfect place for both of them to practice their art and work on starting a family but then Megan starts to see strange people standing around the house.  She fears that they could be the Shadow People, evil spirits that her grandfather told her about.  After Megan realizes that she’s lost her necklace, her visions start to get more extreme and violent.

The Shadow People starts out as a really good haunted house film with a good performance from Kat Steffens and a lot of effective jump scares.  It works up until a scene where Megan suddenly speaks in a demonic voice, as if she’s been possessed.  Later, some of the spirits speak in the same voice and it sounds so much like autotune that it takes you right out of the movie.  The spirits are much more effective before they start talking but the movie still has a good twist ending and Kat Steffens’s performance is never less than great so The Shadow People is still worth it.

Top-billed on The Shadow People‘s poster is C. Thomas Howell.  Howell actually only has a few minutes of screen time, playing a mysterious minster whose role in the story only become apparent in the film’s final moments.