boring and pointless

Rating: 4/10 (20 October 2012)

After viewing the trailer at the movies and saw the reasonably high score that it hit here I figured it's worth a shot. Well how misled I was! No originality,no character development,no scare factor. All in all I spent a worthless hour and a half in the cinema and left me wonder what this movie actually aimed for...Even the casting seemed pretty weak.I did not find Ethan Hawke suitable for this role.He tries his best to make that character work but hardly succeeds.His wife is probably the low-point.Absolutely no chemistry between them,I couldn't believe for one second they are a married couple.Their kids and their abnormalities are not shown detailed enough to make any impact in the storyline. It should have built up from the promising start-moving to a remote house with a history of violence attached to it,truth hidden from family,box found w disturbing videos in it and uncertain origin etc.-but I felt let down.The "supposed" scary scenes seemed to me that they were just put in randomly and therefore they don't deliver at all.. So I'd say to even hardcore horror fans to wait till it's out on DVD. There's just much better movies of this kind around,take your pick but leave this one alone.