First film ever I've seen to deal with astral projection

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2011)

I had wanted to see this for a while, based on the trailer, which looked pretty scary and I wasn't disappointed, having bought it on Blu-ray DVD. It certainly lives up to its name. The idea of an insidious threat is one that grows, as the growing sense of unease with which this film plays out, highlights. Even the opening credits are very unsettling.
Patrick Wilson's character and his lovely, very hard working wife and 2 young children move into a new home and almost from the word go, strange things start happening. House alarms go off, one of their children meets with a nasty accident and ends up in hospital and intruders seemingly come into the house. Neither Patrick nor his wife Rose want to admit whats going on.
Its only until they call in a psychic (with much persuasion on Rose's part) that it becomes apparent that there's 'something' badly wrong with both their son and the house. The use of astral projection as an explanation is a brilliant one and adds a real flavour and purpose to the film, but its the sense of real, genuine menace that sets this scary movie from almost all others. There's a touch of the Excorcist going, Poltergeist, the Others (quite a big nod to that) and Paranormal Activity. No gore, but then it doesn't need it . A brilliant movie which does what it says on the tin.