Wouldn't Want To Watch It Alone, After Dark

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 2011)

scary stuff. i don't know which was scarier, the supernatural chills or the fact that you can make a movie on a very low budget, gross three times that amount back and still make a film that is far better and more interesting filmmaking than a lot of the large budget CGI crap.
films should be produced more economically. i hate hate huge, unnecessary expenditures in films and half the movies made don't really require or justify the budgets they have and horror films in particular, are often scarier without all the corny, overblown CGI FX.
a lot of the ghostly creeps here are fairly disturbing. i was surprised at how many clichés from other horror films this movie could squeeze and still use them effectively and with a much lower film budget than those films. the elements from movies like 'Poltergiest', 'The Exorcist', Peter Jackson's 'The Frighteners', are familiar, but they have effective impact and seem different and original when applied with the lower budget.
i thought Patrick Wilson was a very good sport to support low budget filmmaking since he is obviously in more demand than this. Wilson's performance is hardly the caliber of the amazing 'Hard Candy', it's not even 'Phantom of the Opera', but it's good enough to be involving.
this is also one of those movies that people will predictably trash because of it's low budget. you know, the type of viewer that thinks they are not being indulged enough unless someone attempts to sink themselves financially in order to please their pampered viewing needs.
this is also one of those scary horror flicks that will probably disturb the viewer more if watched alone after dark. everything is always easier to take and less scary if you watch it with a audience. but i'm not sure anyone should do that. especially if you are superstitious about demons or exorcism.
scary stuff, i personally would like to see more fantasy movies like this that are unassuming and produced modestly. it leads to more interesting results.