Easily the worst horror movie I've seen

Rating: 1/10 (24 April 2010)

As a horror movie fanatic, I expected a good scare form this movie once word was all over the internet that this movie was "the scariest film of the decade" or something. Heck, this thing even beat "Saw VI" at the box-office! There had to be a good reason why a low budget horror film could dethrone Saw from the box-office number one spot. While I was not expecting it to beat "The Shinning," I was at least hoping for something worthwhile. Boy, was I ripped-off.
The premise is fine; the demonic possession of one member of a loving couple caught on video camera... why not? It's like "The Exorcist" from the point of view of "Cloverfield;" admittedly it was an interesting idea. But just because the idea was interesting doesn't mean the movie's any good.
The "scares" in this movie include an Ouija board burning itself, a girl dragged out of a room by an unseen phantom, etc. If people screamed their asses of watching this, then I'm sad to say that the quality of horror has degraded further than expected. The "scary" scenes occur during the night, which means lots of daytime boredom in between. Majority of the film was enough for me to wish that the two would just die and end the movie but no, they had to have some sort of "character development" in this pathetic excuse of a horror film. The film also takes too much time to move its story, killing the tension between the night time scenes as you get bored rather than getting pumped up for the next time the phantom makes an appearance. And when you do get to the night time scenes, you'll end up WANTING the phantom to appear to stop the boredom.
By far one of the most overrated films I've ever seen, skip this if you want good horror. And what's even worse, there are plans of a sequel or even a franchise. Like the Twilight series, I know this thing will suck but it will earn a lot anyways because of sheer popularity and nothing more.