This is scary? Don't believe the hype.

Rating: Null/10 (6 September 1999)

What a complete waste of time and money.
1. They used your typical formula of scare tactics to make the audience jump (let it get dark, make the music scary and then have something unidentifiable jump across the screen). You really have no choice but to react, your body can't stop it, but this has been called "scary". And it didn't even happen that often in the movie.
2. The movie dragged in too many spots for me to even start describing them. I kept saying to myself (get on with it, etc...)
3. They made the movie confusing only to give the appearance of a "surprise ending". True I didn't realize their real ending...
4. Wow! The camera work. I have heard of poor filmmaking but this is unreal. I keep hearing people who don't like the Blair Witch Project because of the unstable camera (most of those people don't realize its neccesity) but this movie was made in the third person using a lot of money and I was still having flashbacks of the BWP. This movie was supposed to have stable shots but I kept getting annoyed when the camera would struggle like a homevideo.
5. They never developed any character. Especially the boy. I wanted to know more about his relationships with the ghosts. What did they want, why were they there? But they never tell you.
Therefore if you are so inclined to watch your typical wonderbread "horror" film (that isn't even as good as Friday the 13th part 8 go ahead and pay the 6-9 dollars to see it. I can promise that you will jump three times and be completely confused until the end. And if you are like most of the other patrons I saw the film with you still will leave there confused and broke.