I want my $13.50 back!

Rating: 1/10 (26 October 2009)

I was extremely excited about this movie when I first saw the previews for it. Since I had to see what it was about, I convinced my husband to go with me, just in case I needed someone to hold onto if it got really scary. Boy, was I wrong!! This was the most pathetic attempt at a scary movie that I have ever seen. I'll admit, there were maybe two or three times where some loud noise startled me, but I never screamed, was never anxious, and felt like a complete idiot by the time the movie was over.
The idea of the movie was great, but really, what's so scary about it? So this girl is haunted by this demonic presence from the time she was 8 years old. She fails to mention this to her boyfriend Micah when they move in together and then this "crazy" stuff starts to happen. They hear noises in the house, like footsteps and loud bangs on the wall. The girl, Katie, starts going into these trances and stands staring at Micah for hours at a time while he sleeps. They film everything, track the demons footprints in baby powder on the floor, and somehow Katie ends up being possessed by this demonic entity. She ends up waking up in the middle of the night, goes downstairs, starts screaming for Micah and he goes running down to save her. He comes flying up the stairs, smashes into the camera, and Katie walks up the stairs covered in blood. Evidently she killed him and yes, it was a little creepy in the last frames of the movie when she looks into the camera and her face turns a little demonic, but ultimately, it was so lame. I actually laughed more than once in the movie and felt like I wasted my money by even going to the film. If Katie had become possessed much earlier in the film, it might have been a different story, but the noises and lights turning off and on were just very elementary attempts at being scary. It really only got good at the very end when Katie gets dragged out of bed by the demon and when she kills Micah.
Anyone else who's thinking of seeing this, think twice, or at least go to a matinée and save a couple of bucks. They made the previews look crazy scary in order to get people to go see it and make big bucks, but it was highly disappointing.