Overrated and not scary.

Rating: 2/10 (29 May 2011)

I was the last member of my group of friends to go and see this movie as i was busy when they all went to see it. I went with my girlfriend and another couple. All of my friends, when asked about it, had said it was "the scariest film" they had ever seen. I took this on board and read some reviews on IMDb the night before. Every single one of them said this was a "classic horror film" or a film "that will leave you having nightmares for weeks". I went into the cinema weary that this would be correct, but everyone could not have been more wrong.
The film was not scary at all and all so very anti climatic. The first (and only) moment in the film that I jumped at came quite a while into in, when the figure appears behind the baby's cot, and despite it coming rather late into the film, I braced myself for more to come. This was not the case and no more "jumpy" moments came. The film dragged on quite a bit and the writers could have tried to insert more scary moments.
I also read that the music choice of the film made it even more scarier, but again to my disappointment, this was not the case. There was nothing special with the music and sound effects and at the part where the father found the son in "The Further" the music did the complete opposite of what it was meant to do. Instead of creeping out the audience, it completely lightened the mood and to me resembled that of a toy factory and a very childly film.
I normally get scared very easily at horror movies and so was expecting to get embarrassed in front of my girlfriend at this one but this did not happen. It was very disappointing and did not live up to all the hype that surrounded it and is most definitely not the "scariest horror film ever". I would not recommend this film at all.