Very disappointing!

Rating: 2/10 (25 April 2011)

Having read some of the positive reviews here I thought this movie would be scary. I kind of had a bad feeling though as the opening credits rolled (but I stuck with it). The moment the ghost boy started dancing it became apparent this movie was trying very hard to be scary but FAILING in a big way. It went downhill from there really.
A 50's biker ghost with gelled black hair, a phantom menace style red face painted demon, and later we had what seemed to be an attempt to imitate Stanley Kubrick's SHINING style by introducing a scene where a few 1930's era ghosts sit on a couch and another ghost stood beside them with an ironing board (ghostly whistling could be heard but no lips were moving). This scene was supposed to be really scary but failed because it looked so out of place and the ghost makeup was just plain bad (the creepy smiles on the faces of the ghosts were just plain sad).
A previous reviewer stated that the acting was superb... I suspect that person was either a friend of the director or had exceptionally low expectations. The acting right from early on struck me as being somewhat inept. The characters were poorly developed and you didn't really engage with them emotionally. You didn't know enough about this family to really care one way or the other.
When the ghost hunters were introduced, it became clear this movie didn't know exactly what it wanted to be (serious ghost movie or farcical comedy?) You see the ghost hunters were intended to bring comedy relief into what was supposedly an otherwise 'scary' movie. This failed because these two nerdy investigators were also lacking in decent script lines.
The attempts at humour from the two techie ghost-hunter nerds failed as dismally as the movie did to scare.
I would class this as D-movie (it falls way below the level of competence needed to create a B-movie). The 'D' represents Dismal.
My advice to you would be to ignore any favourable reviews and give this movie a miss. Unless of course you like watching D-movies? I can recommend a much better low budget horror: Death of a Ghost Hunter (the end scene in particular kind of sticks with you and makes you reflect).
If you want truly scary horrors then look to the Asian ones like SHUTTER (not the American remake).