About as sinister as walking the dog...

Rating: 4/10 (17 November 2012)

Since it's unlikely this will ever make the first few pages which is all anyone ever reads, I'll keep it short!
Likes: creepy Super 8 footage and creepy demon (at least until the director decides you need to see him).
Neutral: atmospheric soundtrack which told you when to put your coke down.
Dislikes: the plot and the script, for being just plain daft.
If I had been trapped into admitting to my wife I'd just moved the family into the house of a quadruple murder there would have been another body in the backyard.
And how could she not realize, or at least suspect? Do they not go shopping or talk to the neighbors in America? Or to the teachers, when she registered the kids at their new school? Or to the other parents, who would be curious to see a new face?
And let's face it, when you hear spooky things in the night, you don't creep around in the dark, you turn the lights on! When you hear sinister sounds from the attic, you don't grab a kitchen knife and investigate by the light of your i-phone!
When you think you may be hot on the heels of a serial killer and you see something in the garden, you don't wander off into the bushes in your PJs with a one-candlepower torch and a baseball bat!
When things start to turn demonic, you don't just tuck your daughter up in bed and leave the poor kid to sleep alone in pitch darkness!
And when you fall through the ceiling in the middle of the night (the result of wandering about in the attic by the light of your mobile phone) is it likely that everyone sleeps through it? In my house, we all wake up if the cat jumps off the kitchen cupboard!
In conclusion, although the film is quite creepy and has some shock moments, the wholly unrealistic way in which the characters behave failed to engage me. I found myself still chuckling at the idiocies when I was supposed to be being scared.