If You Hated Insidious, You'll Hate This.

Rating: 1/10 (28 February 2013)

Cheap jump scares, a jarring soundtrack and a convoluted story.
There seems to be a trend in making horror films that rely purely on loud noises, this is one of them. Gone are the carefully crafted story lines which draw you into the situation and allow you to identify with the protagonists. There was little to no character development with dialogue that was childishly simple and intended to crowbar the points of the film across. It was all hideously predictable.
The 'demon' was just stupid looking, the scary ghost children were insulting to the audience mentality - how on earth in a practical sense did any of them actually manage to commit these murders?!
I guessed that it was the children early on because I have average intelligence which while watching this film put me at a disadvantage. The only thing niggling at me was that they couldn't possibly perform the physical side of the killings alone so I was waiting for some big reveal at the end to explain this. I didn't get it - all I got was some 8mm film footage dramatically showing me what I already knew with me thinking "Is that IT? Really?"
And as for the moving house bit, what the Dickens was all THAT about? He kills people who move house? Does he? Does he really? Erm, why? Oh, I'm not getting an explanation for that? Well that's fine because I'll just file it over here in the draw marked "Utter Sh*te" along with the rest of this films bewildering cr*pfest of a story...
I find it interesting that the illegal download community are being blamed for damaging the film industry. No, it's very badly made films like this, overpriced tickets and food, overpaid actors and a general lack of giving a sh*t for the end consumers which is damaging the film industry.