No to be confused with the Dark Castle film THE APPARITION, APPARITION is a handsomely designed and photographed but not very original take on the mourning protagonist going mad or just vulnerable to haunting forces lurking within a blatantly creepy fixer-upper. After the death of his fiancče Lori (Katrina Law) in a car crash during an argument, former financier Doug (Jody Quigley) retreats from the city to the country farmhouse they were restoring to continue the work in Lori's memory. Despite warnings from local Woody (Thomas Roy) about the legend of an Irish widow who used to torture and kill maids in the house's basement, Doug isolates himself further and resists overtures of friendship from graduate student Jamie (Lili Bordán) who is studying family therapy and getting over her own tragic past of daddy figures and physical abuse. As Doug becomes unnerved by strange sights and sounds in the house, he confides in Jamie who thinks the hauntings are projections of his guilt combined with Woody's stories. As he grows closer to Jamie, however, the haunting presence takes the form of Lori who offers him a second chance at happiness with her and the child she was pregnant with before the accident. When Jamie and Doug's friend Connor (Dave Droxler) separately attempt to draw him back to the land of the living, Lori becomes more possessive and threatening, twisting Doug's perception of reality. Is it really Lori's reproachful spirit, Doug's overwhelming guilt (and possible head trauma from the accident), or the ghostly forces that caused the teenage daughter of the house's previous owner to axe her family before blowing herself away with a shotgun?