Scary but, not that scary

Rating: 6/10 (25 June 2011)

I think the first half was very promising and scarier than the second half. Since first 40 - 50 minutes of the movie is built upon horror movie tradition, ,and working great in the sense of horror genre (haunted house, possessed little boy, etc ). Unfortunately director destroys the first half in the second half, simply taking an unorthodox approach to the genre. Basically what he did was he turned horror icons upside down, for example he tried to scare audience with shots taking place in almost sunny daytime ,or he used a group of characters even in the most scary moments rather than one helpless character. The problem here is when you see daylight or a bunch of people screaming around you don t get scared because you fell safe. When you fell safe while watching a horror movie, you don t attach yourself to the characters and fell any empathy for them. Also the technological stuff that the characters used to bridge between our physical world and nonphysical world wasn't exactly working as it was supposed to , in fact i believe many people find it funny, maybe the director actually used it to ridicule the genre he played with. Anyway I'd say, the movie is OK, it sometimes scared me sometimes I found it very funny (evil make-up was Ridiculous). I think, the director deliberately mixed horror icons with unusual elements to surprise the audience more ,but I don't know why he wanted some funny stuff in his movie. I'd recommend this movie to horror fans who look for something different, but i can't say i myself enjoyed much.