Apparently skilfully made, but...

Rating: 7/10 (27 October 2013)

For me as agnostic, weird things result from lack of knowledge and/or twisted mind. Well, there are clairvoyants, but they are persons with sharp senses and enhanced psychology skills. When I am too lazy to ponder, I confine myself to Murphy's laws... Besides, I do not find old house or weather related creaking doors or outside rustles - or similar - supernatural or scary and I do not believe in bad aura.
Nevertheless, from time to time, I watch movies dealing with the above topics, particularly if fine directors and actors are involved. In the movie in question, Vera Farmiga was the biggest traction to me: her pleasant physiognomy does not hinder her being versatile... Regretfully, she was the only part I really enjoyed, all other things were okay at best. There were lot of scenes when you expected that something would happen, but either nothing did or the incident was ridiculous, i.e. non-real or deriving from the past. Fuss with finding evidence was not fresh as well, similar depictions have been used in dozens of movies before... Well, I can admit that some twists are thrilling - especially to those having weaker nerves - but all this related exorcism and religious connections provide all this mess odd undertones. I would have preferred a real, personified evil attempting to make his or her misdoings look supernatural or so (i.e., someone trying to chase neighbors away for various reasons, personal revenge, etc.). The ending was nothing special and expected as well.
All in all, the movie is not bad, but lacks new approaches and elements for "impassive" and non-religious people like me.