Excellent movie, but with some small reservations.

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 2020)

I want to start by saying I love this movie, it is one of my favourites of all time, however, I also want to say that it has some issues.
No matter what format I've watched this on, during the most darkly lit scenes it has really unforgivably bad posterisation, and I really feel it needs a digital remaster. It also takes a lot from the movie Poltergeist (1982), in its characters, plot and basic premise, so if you're familiar with that it will feel rather derivative.
However, it adds many completely unique ideas of its own, eschews flashy special effects and cheap jump scares for some simple yet highly effective theatrical methods that are unnerving because they are so right yet so wrong, and takes us on a haunting journey through some truly creepy scenes with solid direction that never gets clumsy or obvious.
It also has really great skin tingling sound that at times flickers around your ears in the most disturbing fashion, and when sudden loud noises happen they are never unqualified by what is going on onscreen.
So please look past the at times distracting digital errors that pop up in some scenes and enjoy an otherwise great scary movie.