An above average horror thriller

Rating: 7/10 (24 April 2012)

I watched this movie on Netflix not too long ago, and I want to say I do like horror movies but most movies supposedly pertaining to that genre in the last ten years have sucked, so when I heard about the hype I thought it would be very enjoyable. The movie is made by the guy who created the Saw series, James Wan, and I liked the first one but the rest were dumb to me. I was eager to view this, and I wasn't disappointed but I feel the hype was undeserved with some calling this a horror masterpiece and all.
The movie starts with a family moving into a house and the young son of the family falls victim to demonic forces and lays in a coma as a result that nobody can explain. Strange things start happening and eventually the parents call in paranormal investigators who explain to them the son is in a dimension called "the further" which his son is lost in and only the father can rescue him as he had experiences as a child.
This movie I felt would have horror clichés, and I feel it was wearing movies like Poltergeist and The Exorcist on its sleeves.
But the movie does have a few good genuine scares, and it does manage to build suspense, but I felt the demonic figure in this movie looked a little fake, and the last forty minutes of the movie was predictable and not as good as the opening half.
But by all means it's an above average horror movie and audiences will get what they're expecting.