Nothing special

Rating: 2/10 (29 May 2010)

I've enjoyed original horror and suspense thrillers over the decades but this, disappointingly, isn't one of them. Acting and quality is what you'd expect with this producer but it doesn't go much further than that. The story and scenes were too familiar which wouldn't have been so bad if there had at least been something unique in the plot other than... kid sees invisible friends / mom believes / no one else does / scary dead kid with mask / they bring in the psychic / you get the idea. There's a couple of semi-shocking scenes but obsolutely nothing chilling about the plot unless you've been living under a rock for the past 30 years and the last horror movie you've seen is the exorcist (in which case you'd still never compare this movie to that one). See Pan's Labyrinth if you want to be freaked out by this guy. I loved Pan's Labyrinth but this movie did not do for the horror genre what his earlier movie did for fantasy, not by a long run.