Overhyped and underwhelming - "you were warned" indeed...

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2018)

If your idea of a good horror flick is watching unlikable members of a dysfunctional family quietly wrestle through the torturous act of putting up with one another, then you've just found yourself two and a half hours of pure timesucking gold. Sure, there's a weak mix of C-grade made-for-TV tropes that are peppered throughout this dismal wreck to string it together into what technically qualifies as "supernatural horror" - but the film's as scary as a roll of flab, and as predictable as an infomercial. The direction is amateur-hour at best (the original cut was supposedly three hours - what for???), the pacing is torturously uneven, and there's weirdly preachy anti-marijuana messaging (perhaps because there isn't enough THC in this universe to make this watchable). It stinks up every subgenre it touches, and anyone who praises this is either being disingenuous or stupid or both - this is literally the most overhyped piece of garbage since Inception. As an avid horror fan, I can't think of a single reason to recommend this.
Instead, try watching: Society, Drag Me Down To Hell, Lord Of Illusions, Serpent and the Rainbow, The Ninth Gate, The Wicker Man, The Visit...anything but this, really.