"Shocking Supernatural Flick!"

Rating: 6/10 (28 February 2016)

This 2012 horror film stars Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson and Vincent D'Onofrio. Hawke (Training Day) plays Ellison, a true-crime writer who moves to a house where the previous occupants were murdered, but his wife, Tracy (Rylance) and their 2 children don't know about it. Soon, Ellison finds snuff films of the murders and others before and as he tries to uncover whose behind them, he and his family become terrorized by a dark, supernatural force. The late, Thompson (Die Hard 2) plays the Sheriff and D'Onofrio (Men in Black) plays Professor Jonas. This is a shocking flick sort of similar to "The Conjuring," "White Noise" & "The Babadook," Hawke is great in it and Christopher Young's score is chilling. Horror fans should check this out at least once.