So Much Wasted Potential

Rating: 5/10 (23 April 2011)

I'll get to the point, and say that the first half of this movie is really well done. From the opening credits to the creepy string music reminding you of when horror films were actually good. The acting is strong and there are even scenes were the characters are strongly developed. Everything sets up nice, and it has that creepy house/ghost story feel to it, mixed in with a little bit of intrigue. The jumps and scenes are queued on time with the music, and the subtle "scares" are really this movies shining moment. Actual suspense and fright, minus the gore that so many "scary movies" have been pushing out lately.
All this sounds like a great movie right? Well, don't get your hopes up like I did. Somewhere along the half way point this movie goes downhill drastically. It wasn't just a personal opinion either because I heard similar murmurs from fellow viewers. Needless to say, by the end of the movie the plot/quality decline and what could have been a great scary movie for the decade, amounted to nothing more than a failed attempt that left me wondering why the directors would make some of the choices that they did.