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Review: Widow's Point

OK, let's face it; we all like a good haunted house flick. There's something comforting in watching a genre where you know what you're getting going in and, as long as the movie delivers, you're happy. Widow's Point, the latest from writer/director Greg Lamberson, is very much a classic haunted house movie. You've got a great setting -- in this case a lighthouse -- with a grisly past, and more spirits than you can shake a stick at. And it's all handled in a fairly restrained and respectable manner, with an emphasis placed on genuine chills over jump scares and gore. And the film is headlined by Craig Sheffer, who I haven't seen in a movie for a long, long time. And he owns this one with a great performance, slowly descending into insanity as the film carries on. Jack Nicholson could've learned a thing or two from Sheffer's work here had this film come out before The Shining. Yup, went there. Sheffer plays a down-on-his-luck writer who d...