A nice little horror film

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2009)

Is this film scary? yes. But not in the traditional Hollywood excessive, gore fest. There is no twisted monster or psychotic, masked killer. Instead the film appeals to our imaginations, those paranoid thought we had when we were a kid and we would hear footsteps, or creaks inside the house. Or times you may have woken up in a sweat of fear, sensing someone was in the room.
What this film achieves is expanding on those fears, and capturing the eerie silences and noises of the night. What's more, it comes off as the real deal, like some horror footage found after the incident. I agree with many and say that it will be hard to get to sleep after viewing this film, those midnight noises will become so much more to those with strong imaginations. The eerie silence of the night will become unbearable.
However the film is nothing ground breaking in the horror genre. Its a simple horror film which narrowly escapes the horror cliché's attached to the setting of a suburban house at night. It does what it does well, providing a scare. But nothing more.