People who are interested in the paranormal will love this film.
Essentially this movie works on the premise that ghosts are everywhere, we just don't always encounter them.
Miles suffers from a range of phobias linked to an ongoing mental health issue. At first we don't understand how and why Miles ended up getting sick but we know he's grieving from the death of his father.
Miles' mother is intensely over protective and as the plot develops we discover that she's been keeping the truth of her husbands death from her son.
What follows is less of a horror film and more of an evaluation of the idea that the spirits of the dead inhabit our world and continue to do so for a while before moving on.
It's very much a traditional ghost story in this regard,
an almost Victorian idea that the spirits are seeking absolution in death for some misdemeanour they committed in life.
This could of been a boring film were it not for Miles learning to live with his dead ghost in a way that's closer to ancestor worship.
The story is one of how we all carry our own ghosts with us and how we relate to our unconscious dead selves.
A really interesting film, with a watch.
