It's not that good is it?

Rating: 5/10 (9 November 2013)

WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.
Not a great fan of this kind of movie. The people in the movie don't act anything like how a normal mentally healthy person would act. For example, at one point a person with a fair bit of supernatural experience reaches into a dark wardrobe (cliche to the max) when she knows there is a nasty ghostie in there. Was she hoping to shake hands with it? Just dumb. There are many such instances in the film and too many to ignore. The people just seem to accept that violent ghosts that steal children and knock they themselves senseless are in the house far too easily. Sometimes they protest but come on, there's ghosts all over the shop and they are not nice, as if you would just maintain normal sleeping arrangements after your son had been taken, your daughter taken from her crib, your supernatural guru strangled by god knows who, you see ghosts in the form of strange ladies screaming at you as they punch you and your husband is acting a little odd and suspicious.
Also it relies heavily on highly predictable jump scares. You know they are coming but the loud noise and sudden shock still makes you jump. Its not clever.
The ghost world is really silly. Its pitch black but don't worry, the main characters are well lit for some reason. No wonder the ghosties can see them, with their spooky lanterns that seem standard issue in the ghost universe. Must be a ghost union thing. Oh and there is mist everywhere...ooooohhh spooky mist. Not sure why there is mist but maybe they have other sorts of precipitation too and it's mere coincidence that on this day it was a bit misty in the afterlife.
The idea is good and the serial killer that hates his mother for forcing him to pretend he was a girl is creepy but handled poorly. The mother is so over the top see looks like an evil queen from a Disney animation.
Not a great film.