Norman and Claire are living in a pristine Vermont scenery, when their new neighbors start behaving strangely. He is too busy to notice anything, but her long lonesome hours are playing mind games with her, and she thinks there may be some foul play involved. She suspects the neighbor killed his wife and spies on him with binoculars (Hitchcock alert!). When Claire starts experiencing ghost presence in the house, she believes the ghost to be the neighbor's murdered wife, and is trying to alert Norman. He is not only uninterested and unconvinced, he deduces that she needs therapy (another Hitchcock alert!). At the turning point of the movie, when one movie ends and the other begins, we'll discover that the ghost is not the neighbor's wife after all, but rather a certain young lady Norman had an affair with (Amber Valetta). The chilling resolution scene takes place in a bathroom - get ready for another Hitchcock alert - and the shower curtain won't be the only victim of events that ensue.

All these quotes of the great master of suspense might have worked, if Zemeckis had a script to work with. This one is so unsure of what it wants to say, it tries to develop one story as a decoy, so you don't see the other coming, but both are equally unimaginative. Even if the second story weren't so aggressively advertised, you'd still be wondering what the link between them is. In fact, the funniest moment of the movie is the final reconciliation with the story about the neighbors. Michele Pfeiffer tries real hard to make sense of what's going on, and she's done an admirable job, given the fact that she spends half the movie submerged into various bodies of water. Small clues that the movie leaves for us like Hansel and Gretel, such as the key, the pendant or the powerful tranquilizer, take away any surprises, but somewhat help the flow of the movie. The dialogues are brainless at best, and a few scares that the movie does deliver are overshadowed by several really cheap ones, that are just a little bit overdone.