Why so Christian?

Rating: 1/10 (26 July 2013)

This is essentially a SUUUUUPER Christian remake of Poltergeist, with a thinly veiled anti-abortion message. Yeah, it has some creepy moments and for a while it even seems relatively restrained, but it eventually devolves into the same old crap that you always see in this type of formulaic horror movie. There are many, many things that are so typical that it feels like you're watching a parody of a horror movie; moments that felt as if I'd somehow stumbled into an awful Scary Movie sequel. And then it all falls apart when it becomes so terribly, unashamedly Christian... Its stance isn't even as nebulous as the pseudo-New Agey stuff in Poltergeist (which was a very light touch compared to the heavy handedness here), and even literally spells it out for the audience that both the devil and god exist. Hooey! So if you don't mind going to see a schlocky horror movie--where there is never even any real danger--and don't mind that icky feeling that you've just dropped your money into a religious propaganda machine's offering plate, then... well, you probably deserve this ultimately anticlimactic, unsatisfying, preachy tripe.