what could have been fantastic...

Rating: 7/10 (14 August 2013)

well... as a lover of horror i am constantly striving to find that one film that will put the fear of cthulu in me, and in this i thought i had found my visual soul mate. it has a genuine sense of tension, much more artfully done than the recent let downs such as sinister or paranormal craptivity. stupidly i watched this in the middle of the night, in the dark... on my own while the husbeast was in bed. the shocks, when they come will make you jump, they will have you questioning where the breeze against you legs has suddenly come from, what they bang down the hallway was.. was that something in the doorway? i was so impressed i would have given it ten stars, the atmosphere, the sick and twisted plot, the character depth... but the ending lets it all down. after the sheer sickening back story that has been revealed piece by piece, something that stretches back over years of fear.. just for it all to end in sweetness and light? that something so malignant and powerful would be thwarted so easily simply by a memory of better times? of all the people that died did no one else have an inspiring thought of loved ones before their gruesome end? why then does this family manage to dispel the evil so easily and without really trying? i don't think so. it ruins the film because its just so damned unbelievable! it wouldn't happen that way in any universe where it could happen at all. utterly disappointed, leaving the viewer with a complete sense of anti-climactic disappointment. its almost the same as when you eat a doughnut and they forgot the filling. well that's how i felt anyway. film makers - i dub thee "the ruiners"