unbelievably bad

Rating: 4/10 (5 August 2013)

i am giving this 5 because it did have 2 or 3 decent scares in the whole thing. and the cinematography was good. otherwise this is the most over-hyped movie i have ever see, hands down, no contest. the characterizations are pitiable and it is filled with cliché after cliché. it even begins with the cheesiest trope of horror films ever, the 'possessed doll'. by the halfway mark i realized we were watching a really poor and bloodless version of poltergeist. vera famriga who was brilliant in orphan is utterly wasted here and given the most effete character ever to portray. i found myself wincing every time she piped up in her mousy voice. now i think of it, i realise it is worse than i initially thought, so, i give it a generous 4.