Mallory Wilson never wanted to set foot on Sorrow Island. But when her thrill-seeking sister Brynn threatens to turn their inherited lighthouse into a paranormal tourist trap, someone has to talk sense into her. What should be a quick intervention becomes a nightmare when Mallory discovers Brynn has invited a crew of YouTube ghost hunters to document the island’s “supernatural activity.” Worse still, a violent weather pattern—the Deeping—is about to start. As freak storms tear through the island, Mallory soon discovers the weather isn’t the only thing to fear.
There’s quite a lot to enjoy with this one. One of the finer features here involves the complex yet still involved storyline that brings together several impressive factors, ranging from the family dynamics at play within the sisters about how to treat the lighthouse they’ve been left to the interactions around town, the more they stay around the locals. The reasoning to make the lighthouse into a paranormal attraction has some logic behind it, much like the arguments against exploiting the incidents that happened there, regardless of whether it’s haunted or not, and that is only helped by the inclusion of supernatural cosmic genre elements involving the lighthouse’s purpose, which helps to explain its haunted past. This all generates the kind of impressively atmospheric tale that has a lot of fun elements brought together in a collective package.
It’s even better with the rest of the backstory involving the weird traditions and atmosphere on the island, with the isolated location full of legends and superstitions that take place in the coastal town, where everyone has their own way of dealing with the bizarre weather patterns and conditions surrounding what goes on in the area. As it introduces a series of interdimensional monsters and creatures that are brought together at the location, in addition to the other paranormal action presented, it gives the story a strong, fast-paced setup that carries throughout that helping to overcome some of the issues with the characterizations throughout here. Beyond the main girls, no one else really gets much of a mention, and the ghost hunters are the worst of the lot, who are generalized as a trio so much that it’s difficult to remember their names at times. With them being a good chunk of the story, helping to trigger what’s going on, they’re pretty much faceless entities with little going on for them, but it’s not a big detrimental issue.
4.5/5
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