An anticlimactic movie, but a bad one

Rating: 6/10 (25 June 2013)

A washed-up crime writer moved into a small town along with his wife and two kids, harboring the forlorn hope that he could forge another bestseller. He was next to desperate so that he bought the house whose former owner had been massacred in the yard save for a little girl who went missing. Much stressed yet his hope arose when he found in the attic a box of super 8 homemade movies portraying several mystic unconnected crime scenes, including the one had happened in his yard. He suppressed the temptation to report the video to the local police and begun to study the tape with a bottle of whiskey at hand.
Up to this point, I thought our ill-fated hero would be a screen cliché who unwillingly casts his investigation aside, then tries his best to save his family and ultimately defeats the monster (or whatever that might be). Such kind of platitude is indubitably acceptable for a low-budget horror movie by default. What is really unexpected, if not unacceptable is that the movie chooses to advance itself in a way that makes little sense.
The family eventually found out the house was heavily cursed, and they decided to stay no more. However, after having left the town in the rear-view mirror, a novice policeman discovered that the writer had just fulfilled the pattern that an ancient evil bogle used to choose his victims. Getting the heads-up call too late, the family was slaughtered at the hands of their little daughter, who was possessed by the sinister spirit. The hero failed both his family and his audience because he did even have the chance to figure out how to break the pattern, nor did the screenwriter care to give one. Is it the morale of the story that there exists certain unbreakable evil? If so, what is the meaning for our hero's uneventful struggle throughout the movie? Or the whole point is to tell us that they just made up a new imaginary monster called "Bughul?"
The movie is a cumbersome shoddy medley of the Ring in the east and the bogeyman in the west, which give the unimaginative name "Bughul."