A lot of great ideas and effects spoiled by a dumb ending.

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2011)

The first time I watched this, the phone rang and I had to turn it off. I watched it again 2 months later, and was frightfully disappointed by the way the movie falls apart after the character of Elise Rainier is engineering the journey into the Further. I was so in love with this movie until it decided to play Halloween Costume Party with all it's demonic extras.
Seriously, this was a great premise for a movie: a little boy haunted by supernatural forces; fine actors, a great supporting cast, very homey set design and smart cinematography. Why did they have to ruin it with a "Boo" ending?
At least in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," (1980) it was evident at the end that Jack Torrance got swallowed up into the Overlook Hotel's ghost population. You don't even understand what happens in the ending of this film, unless you want to go to Wikipedia and rely on someone else's "Cribb note" observations.
Sadly, this is what most people do when they sit through a movie and end up asking, "What the heck happened?" Too bad we can't hire a professional editing team to re-cut the movie so it makes a little more sense.