“Phantoms” (** out of four) was a not-bad horror psychodrama about two siblings (Casey McCullum and Tra’Waan Coles) who return home for their father’s (David E. McMahon) retirement but instead find a group of intruders (Taylor Murphy, Gonzalo Betancor, and others) who are hellbent on killing all of them. Too predictable and derivative to really score but stylishly made and proficient enough to hold your attention and keep it watchable. No relation to the Godawful 1998 Ben Affleck thriller of the same name but owes more than a bit to “Desperate Hours” and (especially) “The Strangers.”

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