Psychologically terrifying.

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2014)

I am going to lose some man-points here but I found this absolutely terrifying.
I am a big Ethan Hawk fan and he played the rather unlikeable main character very well.
Ghost stories tend to have two flaws in my opinion.
One: The characters have to put up with the ghosts and not run away. Here Hawke forces his family to endure the supernatural for reasons of money and ego. I bought this, I was yelling at the TV for his wife to leave him but every time she was ready to go he managed to stop being enough of a douche so she wouldn't.
Two: Ghosts aren't scary in the flesh. OK they may kill you but then so can a peanut. Here the director teases you with the supernatural element bringing it out in short sharp horrifying doses.
The film is a little slow (almost to Japanese levels), but this helps store larger amounts of suspense.
Loved the cast, loved the story, watched most of it between my fingers, don't judge me.