Comedy Relief!

Rating: 5/10 (14 September 2012)

I'm not sure about any of you, but the use of the song by Tiny Tim in this movie was absolutely priceless. Whenever a horror movie can give comedy relief and snatch it away from you directly afterwards. There are many "easter eggs" in this movie that you can find if you look around the scene instead of looking directly at the subject. That gave my friends and I a good time as well, rewinding the movie afterwards to find as many as we could. If you look at the chalkboard in the classroom, there is a picture of Jigsaw. You're welcome ;) It didn't get in the way of the movie, and sometimes made it a bit more creepy. But it was still a joke among us. The spirit investigators were also a laughing stock of the movie. The evil spirit we made fun of also. He didn't look scary at all, in fact he sort of looked a bit like Darth Maul. The old woman however, was a bit more scary. Is every freaking evil spirit a pedophile? Even the women. Come on! I had been told by many of my friends that this movie was the scariest movie they have ever seen. The only horror movie I had ever seen was I Am Legend, but I had played a lot of horror games, such as Silent Hill, prior to watching this. So, since I Am Legend wasn't scary at all, I wanted to actually have a scare from a movie. I logged in to Netflix and watched it with a few pals and we were pretty stoked. The only problem is, this movie wasn't really all that scary. It was very predictable as well, I pretty much pointed out everything that would happen before it did. This movie also had a horrible misunderstanding of the astral plane. It got nearly everything wrong. You can come in contact with evil spirits, yes, but can you get possessed by one? No. Can you get lost in the astral plane? No. This is because your spirit is tethered to your body. It would be like having a dock as your body, and a boat tied to the dock as your spirit. If too high of tide ever came in, you could pull yourself right back to the dock. And that's what your spirit does. You can research more about that for yourself, but I found that many people didn't want to even think of about astral travel or lucid dreaming after watching this movie because they were scared this would happen to them. I think it's horrible that they chose to represent the beauty of the astral world in such a horrible, unrealistic manner. I was quite disappointed with that decision. All in all, it was a mediocre movie. It lacked good scares, had too much comic relief in it, too many easter eggs, and a stupid representation of astral travel. However, it was a new, original idea to make a movie about astral travel, much like Inception made a movie about lucid dreaming. I just wish they didn't choose that topic to make a horror movie about, because nearly everything was false!