Breath of Fresh Air for the Hollywood Horror Industry

Rating: 7/10 (20 September 2013)

This is a fun horror film to watch, mostly because its not the same crap that gets pawned off as horror these days. When we've had more than a half-dozen Saw movies (and I am aware that the same people made this movie), and other such flops, its nice to have a horror movie that doesn't rely on blood and gore.
Even though it was very clear to the audience that the house itself wasn't haunted, I liked that fresh approach. The entities were all creepy, but they also weren't required to have all that much on screen time to do their work. The visit to the Further region was cool; weird but also spooky.
The acting was sub-par at some points, but it wasn't too bad. The special effects were pretty good.
My only complaint is that the movie was sometimes too dark that it was hard to see what was going on. This could have been the provider (Fear.net)hadn't optimized the film for presentation, but there were points where I figured it was supposed to be scary, but I had no clue what was going on.
Anyway, I enjoyed this film. Hopefully it and others like it (such as the Conjuring) are a sign of things to come from the movie industry for the horror genre. There are predictions that the era of the blockbuster is coming to an end. Maybe that will mean Hollywood will focus on making good movies instead of expensive movies.