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SPOILER ALERT: The Canal is another one of those not-too-bad-but-should-have-been-better movies. If you're into mysterious ghost stories where you're not sure what's really happening 80% of the time, this movie may be for you. everything kicked off, and i was into the story, until i wasn't. this irish film archivist guy catches his wife having a sexy affair (or did he?) and then she ends up dead. who killed her? nobody knows. well he soon realizes there's a demonic, murdering ghost in the house AND a grisly murder happened there over a hundred years ago. naturally, he's determined to stay there and be tormented, try to film some ghost action, and put his young child at risk. speaking of his kid, i can't think of any other child film characters less concerned about a murderous spirit stalking him and his dad. "evil spirit tried to kill us? mom is dead? oh i'll have another bowl of cereal, dad." the movie finally brings it all home by the very end with the big reveal and the sinister satanic underpinnings, along with a creepy epilogue. it was just sitting through the bloated middle of the film asking yourself "what?" that made it a bit long in the tooth for me. again, a solid creepy ghost story and not a bad film, so i'll give it 6 and a half corpses floating in the canal out of 10.
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