A couple Robert and Claire go to an isolated house that belonged to her aunt to find peace and rest after the accidental death of their son and Claire's subsequent break down and suicide attempts. While there she starts to hear voices. Based on a stage play it is mainly confined to one set and with only Robert and Claire on screen most of the time. At 91 minutes it is too long and would have been better done in an hour.The mixture of coping with bereavement and a ghost story doesn't really work in this case.

David Hemmings as Robert and Gayle Hunnicutt as Claire are fine in their roles, too well actually as the grimness of their mutual emotional roller coaster ride overwhelms any ghostly tension so the supernatural element seems completely unnecessary. The ending where they find they are the real ghosts who project into the past is a bit of a let down. Apart from the good acting and a brooding music score by.Richard Rodney Bennett it''s a bit of a slog to sit through.

****SPOILERS*** Since the couples-Robert & Clair-played by David Hemmings & Gayle Hunnicutt-8 year old son David, Adam Bridge, drowned after slipping off a waterfall at a local river Clair ended up in a mental infatuation suffering from deep depression in feeling that she somehow was responsible for his death. It's now two years later and Clair's husband Robert feels that a weekend in the country will help her overcome her guilt and get her back to normal. Driving to the out of the way mansion in the woods the couple have a near accident on the road due to the heavy fog that unsettles them and has the already unstable Clair want to turn back feeling that it's ,the near accident, an warning of things to come; She couldn't have been more right!

Creepy story about a woman-Clair-flipping out of her skull by hearing voices and seeing things that causes her at the time more or less stable husband-Robert-to almost join her. With no heat or electricity as well as running water in the mansion it makes one wonder why Robert would choose this place to help cure his wife's paranoia? constantly hearing voices as well as later seeing people in the place has Clair ready to be re-committed. But Robert wants to cure her in his own way by confronting what's driving her nuts that's soon causing him to lose it as well!

****SPOILERS****After spending an horrific night at the mansion It's finally decided by Robert to go along with his wife's wishes and to leave the place as soon as possible or as the sun comes up. With Robert going to get the car Clair can't wait any longer and runs out of the mansion to meet him. And it's there that the two both meet the fate which they were totally unaware of that brought them there in the very first place!

This movie is quite difficult to locate, which is a shame for horror fans. In the past couple of years, more sophisticated films such as "What Lies Beneath" and "The Sixth Sense" have been giving scary movies a good name. "Voices" is from this class of thriller because it achieves its shocks through the use of story and character interaction, with an ending that leaves you wondering and frightened for days. It is a simple story about a young British couple who want to get away for a short, romantic vacation in a secluded area of rural England. The destination is unfamiliar to both, and the journey there is ripe with dialogue so realistic and ordinary (plain conversation, arguments, reconciliations) that one might initially think "Voices" is an arty, ad-libbed drama as opposed to a horror flick. This mundane aspect is all a ploy to throw the viewer off, however. Once the young lovers find the vacation house, the mood shifts eerily and the sense of something threatening and supernatural surrounds the couple. They become frustrated, confused and hateful towards each other as their romantic weekend slips through their fingers amidst a haunting neither one can identify. The audience are left equally bewildered, because there is no standard, knife-wielding lunatic creeping outside,and there is no demon locked in the cellar. There is merely this sense of accelerating decline in the characters that is fascinating to observe, and we find ourselves needing to know what happened en route that has resulted in this bizarre situation. Ultimately, the final ten minutes of the film answers all of our questions and makes the subtleties we were puzzling over seem more profound...and the couple themselves discover it as we do, with just as much sense of terror.

Submitted by Penny Dreadful, Halifax, Nova Scotia.