cell phone flashlight is a main character in this movie

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2015)

The lighting is so bad in this movie that you literally cannot see what is going on most of the time. Ethan Hawke walking around a dark house with the light from his cell phone is not scary. How anyone was remotely entertained by this movie is a joke. All of the positive reviews on here must be from the marketing team. The only thing that was done well were the creepy 8mm films that Hawke watches to research the murders. Seems all of the budget went toward a plot device, but not the film's actual plot or filming of the movie itself. I've never really cared for Ethan Hawke, so if you are not a fan either, definitely do not waste your time with this one. Snoozer, and I thought extremely predictable from the moment you see the daughter painting on the wall right in the beginning, and other child drawings later on....duh.