I was left disappointed, very clichéd

Rating: 5/10 (30 January 2012)

I was under the impression this was a good and somewhat well received movie when I caught this on TV. I'm a fan of supernatural and paranormal movies which do not rely on cheap scares or blood and gore, so I was actually looking forward to this.
Well, good things first. There was very little blood and not really gore at all, thumbs up for this, there's never too many horror movies of this kind. The story was somewhat interesting, I like stories that don't go full throttle all the time or are too traditionally structured. There's a genuine feel of not knowing what will happen next when watching this. You really keep an eye on the screen, because you want to see if something happens. If there is a small freaky clue or anything really. I was pretty hooked.
What was wrong with it then? I didn't find the movie very believable nor the characters very genuine or likable. The guy continuously does what the girl doesn't want him to do and it gets kind of annoying. She's telling him to turn of the camera all the time, so you are also aware of the camera all the time and while this may be unavoidable in a movie like this, I still felt it distracting.
The movie is very clichéd and most of the stuff doesn't make much sense. A lot of stuff happened just because they are commonly felt as freaky, ie. the attic, lights turning on and off, everything happening during the night. What if the couple were working on a night shift, would the entity then have done the actions daytime? The ouija board scene was especially cheesy.
The biggest let down was the ending, while it was partly freaky, the very very ending ruined it. You'll know when you see it, completely unnecessary choice to make the camera (and audience) so obvious again.
I'm surprising myself saying this, but this movie was actually a bit boring. I'm OK with slow paced movies, but you need some food for brain to make it interesting even if it's slow.
It's all done better before (Poltergeist, Entity). Even the more recent movie The Fourth Kind which utilizes somewhat similar idea is so much better and more engaging, only it's about aliens rather than geists. There's also a movie called The Collingswood Story (2002) which I also think was a lot better than this.