Focuses on scary build ups and tense moments, rather than cheap jump scares.

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2013)

This scary movie is the best since the exorcist, I've read the bad reviews and i couldn't help but disagree,
I heard some reviews saying that it had cheap jump scares. This movie is the opposite of that, it builds up the tension for way too long that you just want to walk out(in a good way). After all that tension has build up, something scary happens, and what happens is not a face popping out of nowhere, its actually something terrifying.
This movie is so intense even at the beginning, while there's something happening downstairs, there's something just as horrible happening upstairs.
And people who gave this review a 1 just because it says "based on a true story". Why don't you do your research first so you can find out this movie was based on "house of darkness, house of light" which was written after the horrible experience of the Perrons.
This movie has incredibly talented actors, including the little kids.
50% percent of the scares aren't because of loud music, 50% of the scares are due to amazing camera tricks and angles. They seriously couldn't have chosen a scarier angle to show the activity from.
This movie isn't just scary, it also has a good story, it's not a movie about a killer that kills for no reason. It's not a movie that has ghosts terrorizing a family just because.
This movie also doesn't just have doors moving and windows closing until the very ending, this actually has terrifying things in the beginning middle and end.
Only bad thing, the trailers did reveal a bit too much of the scary scenes, so just watch trailer 1!
10/10