Bad acting, bad writing, cliché ending

Rating: 1/10 (27 October 2010)

This came off as an inept attempt to capitalize on an equally inept genre: the "realism" movie where we are supposed to believe that the action that takes place before the camera is real. In this movie, there is little action until almost the end of the movie and even then the "possession" of Katie by the so-called demon is hardly new and was already a given from the moment she confessed to seeing "dark images" at age eight. My main problem with this movie, however, was the terrible writing. These two people are supposed to be a couple, yet Micah does everything in his power short of drawing a pentagram to summon the demon, including using a Ouija board despite Katie's protestations. Fueled by what seems to be an inexhaustible supply of testosterone and chauvinism, he treats Katie like a lab experiment rather than the woman with whom he is sharing his life. At the instant he first exhibited his need for "control," this became a B-movie. The only reason I can think of for this type of behavior is that it is "in the script."