Not bad, but not necessarily good either

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2009)

First off, there is definitely something to be said about bringing back the camera-in-hand technique that made Cloverfield and Blair Witch such feats of visual and emotional entertainment. This movie, however, stopped short where I feel it could have done so much better. The concept was excellent and creepy. The photo in the attic was exceptionally freaky and actually made my skin crawl a bit when they did that scene. The sound was excellent but I think they took the movie down a wrong turn about 3/4 of the way in. This would have been so much freakier if they had continued along the lines of the entity harassing her physically (when she was pulled from the bed by her ankle, that was extremely powerful) instead of going the "she has a knife and gets shot by the police" road.
I would have preferred to see more paranormal activity in paranormal activity. I was also looking forward to the presence of the demonologist and was somewhat disappointed that he/she didn't have a presence.