Another typical horror movie that shows promise, but fizzles into ridiculousness...

Rating: 5/10 (15 October 2013)

I noticed the surprisingly high IMDb score (which are becoming increasingly useless, but probably another topic for another time) and thought I'd check this flick out, considering it's not often that horror films exceed 7.0 on the IMDb scale. The film starts out promising, with a genuinely creepy vibe and some believable haunting "events". For the sake of avoiding spoilers, I won't discuss what happens, but nearly 3/4 through the film, the plot takes a hard left to Crazy Town. Even my wife, a much more forgiving horror fan than I, was asking me out loud if the filmmakers actually expected the audience to believe even a sliver of what was happening on screen. I'm still unsure why horror movies feel the need to go completely over the top in the absence of a decent plot, which this film had initially, but began to quickly unravel during the climax of the story. I still feel Poltergeist is the standard-bearer for ghost/haunting films, and this film doesn't even come close despite some talented actors doing the best they could with the material. This film is simply your typical ghost film, with an inexplicable ending. If you've nothing else to watch, give it a try, but no one should assume this film is any better than dozens of ghost movies released in recent years, and in no way deserves the 7+ IMDb score it currently holds.