Mostly very scary

Rating: 7/10 (20 April 2015)

This is a fairly standard horror flick. A lone mother struggles to look after her challenging son when a ghost comes along to really mix things up.
This film has a few things going for it. The mother gives a great performance but is over shadowed by Noah Wiseman, who after only a few minutes on screen I wanted to slap his face (that is a complement) Also this film is as creepy as hell. A number of highly effective tension building devices (books, cellars, rhymes) will make you quake on your sofa.
The direction is great. The characters world is very small, they are trapped inside the walls of their dreary house but at the same time their existence is empty and lonely.
Then like in a million horror films before, in the last quarter of the film, as the tension reaches its zenith the director gets carried away and blows the whole show with a truly stupid finale.
Very eerie, no blood, violence or nudity.