Just another horror

Rating: 5/10 (9 October 2014)

The opening kind of fooled me for me thinking that it was Dalton. As like any other Hollywood horrors nowadays, the story builds the characters for quite far too long. Then the main scares come. And again just any other recent Hollywood horrors, the scare strategy remains the same; build up the smaller scares with medium length build up and peak them with sudden appearances that don't last more than two seconds. This lets the audience off as to when the finale comes. And then the finale builds with all those lengthy thrills with strings of those previously thrift sudden scares, with sometimes a twist here and there. But this movie contains one good twist to the opening scene and the nice additional element of fatherly sacrifice. The ending is predictable, as most Hollywood horrors leave a wide room for a sequel or at least to keep the scare in the hearts of the audience for long after they exit the theaters. The acting is actually quite good. This movie shows Rose Byrne's capacity to act in almost any genre. Patrick Wilson still retains his usual successful cocky man, even though his character now is only a schoolteacher.