The Story: Billie Piper gets her first lead role in this teen horror/thriller, about five students who discover things going bump in the night when they arrive at a new and suitably creepy residence. Luke Mably (The Prince & Me) and Sam Troughton co-star in the low-budget directorial debut of David Smith. The film was shot mainly in Romania and also marks the acting debut of Russian pop star Alsou.
Useless Fact: Alsou was the Russian entry in the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing second behind Denmark.

AUDIO...

  LISTEN: David Smith talks about working with Billie Piper and Luke Mably, and about surviving the film's shoot in Romania...

VIDEO...

WATCH: Spirit Trap trailer:
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THE REVIEWS...

"The action-packed plot merrily twists and turns, and the effects are simple and inventive" (3/5)

"Intriguing to watch, and punctuated with genuinely powerful scenes, but it's overloaded with dialogue and ideology" (2/5)

"I'm sure nobody would be brave enough to call it a classic but then it's not a complete waste of time either"

"Director David Smith offers some eerily lit interiors and there are effective moments of perception-warping paradox or conscience-pricking visitation"

"A Britflick that's more in need of an exorcist than an audience" (1/5)

"This film is horrific but not in the way the director intended" (1/7)

"Billie Piper is the psychic star of Spirit Trap, a truly mesmerising piece of hocus-pocus" (1/5)

"Spirit Trap buries a halfway decent idea under a mountain of bland haunted-house clichés"

"Formulaic and unoriginal, which could be forgiven if only there were the slightest atmosphere of fear or impending doom"

"It's like a horror-film version of The Young Ones" (1/5)

WEB WATCH...

Spirit Trap
Official site

"It was educational"
Billie Piper interview

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