Doesn't quite deliver

Rating: 6/10 (20 February 2013)

Having seen the trailer I went to this with high hopes & a bit of trepidation as I know my wife scares easily when watching creepy movies . In a lot of ways this delivered but ultimately it left me with a sense of never quite following through. The set up for the movie is good the cast are extremely solid Jessica Chastain is very believable & the two young girls played by Megan Charpentier & Isabelle Nelisse are both excellent in their roles. The set piece scares are well delivered & while some may say clichéd , there are only so many ways that you can deliver a scare in a ghost movie so lets not get to hung up on how that's done. Again there are the usual points in any film of this genre were you find yourself shouting why are you going in that cabin in the dark , or why don't you switch the lights on in the house , but lets face it , its not real so you suspend belief. Where the movie ultimately let me down was in the last 20 minutes , the director could have played safe & given the ghost the resolution it desired , or he could have done something off the wall in the end it fell in a slightly strange nether region that just left me feeling dissatisfied. Its a decent movie that's worth a look but its been done better & wont live long in the memory.