I've seen worse

Rating: Null/10 (9 July 2012)

So many people tole me that this film is a waste of time that I never bothered to see it. I happened to be in a library where the film was available and I took it out. I cannot say that it is completely awful, nor can I say--as a whole--that it is a good film; however, it is not a film that is under any good direction. It opens to a very Gothic feeling in an old house that makes you comfortable with the idea of a haunting. Gothic is a very hard thing for Americans to pull off. Sometimes Southerners get it right, but Hollywood aways fall short in that area. Not so in the beginning of this film. When the family moves to the new home, I felt that the drama was intense, well done and well acted. However, the change from the Gothic to the drama was a bit too much of an atmosphere change. I get what they were trying to do, but it did not work.
Finally in the last act when astral projection is added to the plot line and we are conveniently given a back story of how the father had been able to project himself astrally as a child, they became a "B" movie at best. The scene where the father goes into the old house in his astral form began creepy and I regained my hope that we may go somewhere good here. No...As soon as he enters a "demons" lair the film goes right in the garbage. The demon is laughable and at that point as the demon sashays around (what looks like an old fashion Cat House to me), I gave up and let the film run out its time.