Nu-Metal garbage

Rating: 1/10 (7 March 2013)

Love horror films? Been disenchanted with every horror movie that has been released in the last fifteen years or so (with the exception of REC, The Descent, Haute Tension, Martyrs, etc)? Don't bother with this tripe. It's awful, beyond the point of being laughable. You would have a better time watching 3 hours of Slipknot videos.
Aside from containing every possible modern horror movie cliché, the main problem with the film (aside from some pretty gaping plot holes) is that it's astoundingly boring. At two hours long, this barf parade absolutely overstays its welcome. It's decently shot, decently acted, whatever -- but the film gives us absolutely no reason to care about drunk Ethan Hawke or his family. He watches some people die on Super 8 film, drinks scotch, and that's about it. Every thirty minutes we see Baghull the Demon who is Real Bad News (or something).
Nothing you see in this movie matters. There's not even a single jump scare in here. This is coming from a guy who gets spooked real easily. Really, this movie plays out like a 2 hour long Disturbed video. It even features "creepy kids" -- wow, that really hasn't been done in a horror movie in the last two decades! Children are so scary because they are like totally innocent otherwise, or something.
Other scary bits includes Ethan Hawke's children drawing on the walls and a dude in corpse paint showing up in the bushes in some photographs or whatever. God, what a stupid movie.
This movie is utter trash. I could go into detail but it's not even worth it. Don't waste your time. It's almost impossible to imagine how this film could be any worse. And I thought Insidious was bad. Boy howdy.