I hate it!

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 2011)

You can not, you just can not ruin this way a movie which had started damn well! I hate when that happens! The first hour is perfect, good atmosphere, good suspense, there's some real goosebumps moments, there are also some clichés (such as the medium that intervenes and tells her version of the facts, the woman immediately believes her and bursts into tears while her husband calls her a charlatan and kicks her out of the house - is there a ghost/possession film where this does not happen? I have not seen one yet), but overall the quality is excellent. The explanation of the medium about what's going on is compelling and intriguing, the action in the house and the séance are exciting. And then the disaster begins. Puppets of all kinds, black metal musician- like freaks that pop out of nowhere and lick the face of the child's mother, and then, the apotheosis of crap, the astral travel of the father (a character so obnoxiously characterized and with a fixed grouper-like facial expression) in the world beyond. There we have demons fought by means of punches and shoves, other ridiculous puppets, the ghost from his childhood which can be defeated and made disappear just by screaming 3 times "go away", the world of demons that is just their house with some fake fog and strobe lights, and finally the pathetic attempt to a "twist-end". The latter is just the rotten icing on a vessel of sh** that was poured in place of chocolate to cover and completely ruin a cake that was getting very very good. The first part deserves an 8, the second a 3, by an average it makes 5,5, but I'm still angry so I give 4.