some effective scary moments but to much taking from other scary movies to call itself original

Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2013)

i find it very hard to be scared or shocked when i can see them coming. it doesn't matter what kind of movie really, the older i get the more I've seen the harder it is to see something original.
i was surprised at some of the attempts to shock or scare me and they were very effective. but all i all, i have seen this movie in to many other movies that in themselves may not have been all that original either. i guess that would depend how old i was when i saw, say, poltergeist and how many movies I've seen before. yes, it very obviously stole from that movie. a child being used to get the message across to the living from the ghosts, and mommy, this time daddy, going into the other realm to get baby back. i found it a bit amusing to see Barbara Hershey in a movie about a ghost that follows the victim from house to house as in the 1982 movie she stared in, the entity, supposedly based on a true story.
many reviews cite many movies that have been borrowed from that i have not seen or even heard of. thats just shameful. there is only so much borrowing you can do without calling it a remake of some sort even if its remaking several movies at once. even at that, some of the scares were scary, not all, but some. then again i was tired and getting shocked out of my sleep only helped the effect of the shock and i cant re-watch it to see if the shock is just as effective now that I'm wide awake. and no, the movie was not so boring it put me to sleep at the end of a very long day. star wars would have put me to sleep then.