Fabulous beginning shame about the Ghostbusters ending

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2011)

This followed the formulae of most modern day horrors. Excellent eerie build up, suspense and scares in perfect equal measures, you have no idea where it's all going. Then half way through the explanations come and it all goes in the same predictable direction. This film really excelled itself though. I can accurately tell you the exact moment the film takes that familiar downward turn. It's when the family move from the massive, eerie, creaky house to the small suburban bungalow. I suppose it's to lull us into a false sense of security. The bungalow is light, airy modern it's daylight no nasties can get us here. Oh but here they come. Actually it's not the move itself it's the entrance of two 'comical' 'Ghostbuster' type characters with weird and wonderful gadgets to seek out those ghosties. They then call in their grandmother-like boss to do the real psychic stuff, and to give us the longest explanation of the spooky goings on that I've ever heard in a film. It was here that I started clock watching and annoying everyone around me by shifting in my seat. If you want to be chilled and left feeling you need to put furniture behind the front door, leave the cinema when they start packing the van. If you want to predict the end and be left squirming in your chair for a further 45mins then stay to the end.