The VERY rare, occasional moment of suspense was not worth the $10 I paid to see it.

Rating: 3/10 (23 April 2011)

To start off, the movie had basically NO direction. There was no story, nothing that grabbed me, because nothing truly happened until about the middle of the movie, and even then nothing truly made sense. Family moves into house, baby cries a lot, creepy noises, next thing you know a child randomly lands into a coma. For what reason? "The house is haunted", says the mother of the child(Rose Byrne). WHAT! random comas... scary stuff? Come on guys!!
What annoys me the most is that the main characters get spooked by noises before they even truly HEART or SEE anything. Are they unaware that it's an older house? They tend to make noises. Then a fat, ugly guy from the Matrix shows up. Scares the mother. They move into another house. But, oh wait! Your house wasn't haunted, it was your little boy, because he decided to wander a little too far into his dreamland, referred to as, "the FURTHER"; so the dead are trying to posses his body...?? As this scene was paying in the theater, I was praying this was a joke, and hoping that it wasn't heading into this ridiculous direction,.. but it did. It was pathetic.
The characters, or "beings",that were meant to terrify me in this movie simply made me laugh, they were hilarious looking(almost like a child's cartoon, or an old cheap horror movie from the 60's). The scenery and surroundings were not scary, the house wasn't even frightful.
Overall, there was nothing deep about this film that would draw you in to even understand why what's happening is happening, or even make you WANT to know. Everything is surface, nothing truly makes sense, either. There is absolutely NO connection to anything that's going on. Overall, this movie was a poorly conceived idea, and very disappointing coming from the makers of Saw. I've read reviews with people saying how "terrifying" it is, and I've read reviews saying that "it can't be criticized for copying other films." But maybe that's not entirely a good thing; it was clearly never tried by other filmmakers because the idea SUCKS! It took what was meant to be a HORROR film, and made it into something mystical, and unreal. And personally, I believe the overall idea of a scary film is to scare the audience, correct? If you make a film appear unreal, it will be feared by no one, therefore defeating the purpose.
I recommended this film for the age group of 12-16(preferably little girls) who are easily terrified by bugs. This film couldn't possibly strike fear in anyone else.
Fail.