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Rating: 4/10 (1 November 2015)

Yeah, there are already 481 reviews for this movie at the present time, so why bother writing one? I don't know, really. Maybe because my expectations got staked so high by the hype surrounding it. What is certain, is that the movie has gathered a solid fan base which, alas, doesn't prove its quality. It's the story of a single mother and her exuberant boy who get stalked by a demon from a children's book. How the demon is connected to the boy's deceased dad remains unclear, or at least I couldn't make odds or ends of it but the mysterious connection is kept alive like some loose end of an unfinished plot idea and in the end, it's left to the viewer to decide what to make of it. Apart from those loose ends, the movie in itself isn't really bad. It's actually quite well presented. It's biggest crime is just that it's a bland mixture of a hundred and one other horror flicks of that type. I found myself watching the movie until the end, only hoping for some great turnaround to happen, where it would reveal to me that it had just pretended to be generic. But unfortunately, this didn't happen and the movie kept unfolding its boring clichÃ©s one after one. That's real horror of this movie. I understand that many people who like to eat the same old dish over and over again may like this movie. So will many others who haven't seen that many horror movies yet but to me that was just a saddening experience. If you're okay with this unimaginative mess, please don't judge me. I hated it.