Old concept, but not bad

Rating: 6/10 (16 October 2009)

This was a decent rendition of the evil-child subgenre of horror. The writers of this script smoked some pretty decent stuff coming up with scenarios for this movie. Some pretty unrealistic situations here, even with the explanation of why Esther is the way she is (I won't say why cuz it'd totally give up the story).
All the main characters, except for the mom, were dumb, little chickenshits. The dad was the biggest twit of them all. The two biological children should've died just for being such pansies. I kind of wish they spent a little more time developing dad's character. I see he's a pansy but why? How did he get so attached to Esther? This movie conjured a lot of emotion from me and I think that's what makes a good movie. I can't complain about the acting because I think it was actually very good, especially considering 50% of the main characters are kids. In real life, I'd want these people to die so as to rid our gene pool of stupidity but I guess Hollywood has a thing against killing children in movies.
If you have a couple of hours to kill, this is worth downloading off a torrent or getting it at the Red Box. Aww hell, why not...buy the DVD!!