For this overblown horror effort, director Mathieu Kassovitz deploys every cliché in the book - and then moves on to volume two. Halle Berry plays a distinguished psychiatrist who, after a devastating car crash, finds herself incarcerated in her own asylum accused of the bloody murder of her husband. She has no memory of these events and, to make matters worse, is haunted by ghostly images of a young girl. Could there be a connection? As a rule, understatement is always more effective with horror movies, but it's a rule that is ignored here with endless, portentous thunderstorms and pale-faced ghouls that leap out of dark corners. Kassovitz seems happy to mix these cheap genre staples with elements pilfered from The Sixth Sense and Ring, among others. The result is mostly ridiculous and - with the exception of a couple of cynically engineered but effective jolts - resolutely unscary.

After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.