Good film, but it's all been done before

Rating: 5/10 (15 June 2018)

When did horror films stop being scary? there are too many films like this nowadays that are marketed as horror films and then just aren't scary, that means you BABADOOK, IT FOLLOWS, SPLIT, OCULUS, THE CONJURING 2!! etc etc.
On one hand I am pleased that films like this are still being made, it makes a huge change from the usual Dwayne Johnson 2 hour CGI fest thats on at the cinema every week. Unfortunately there is nothing here that hasn't been done before, the director may (or may not) claim it's a "homage" to classic horror movies but to me it was just a blatant a rip-off, all it needed was a kid that sees dead people, a man with chainsaw for a hand, a guy in hockey mask, a zombie and a burnt fella in a Dennis the Menace jumper!!
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed it and will probably go and see it again it's just that there was nothing original about the story, just classic horror moments wrapped up in a modern neurotic American family.
There were more laughs than screams at the screening that I was in.
A twist of THE EXORCIST + a dash of DON'T LOOK NOW + a sprinkling of NIGHT OF THE DEMON + squirt of ROSEMARY'S BABY + annoying family = HEREDITARY.