Should not be marketed as a horror film

Rating: 1/10 (19 February 2016)

The 1 star may seem harsh on a film that critics seem to be praising like crazy. After reading reviews like "one of the best horror movies in decades"...I gotta say, it is NOT a horror film. It is a dark family drama with a supernatural underlying story.
The music is great. The acting is great. The movie was incredibly boring for what we were planning on seeing. It is being mis-marketed as some incredibly frightening horror film, but it is a snoozefest if you go in expecting this to be scary.
The film opens with a bang....but then drags and drags with no real terror...just a family going insane due to religion and isolation. Think of it more along the lines of a slightly eerie Drama, better categorized with the likes of Cape Fear (NOT a horror film) or Straw Dogs. If Blockbusters were still around...this movie would have no business being in the horror section. It should be categorized as a Drama. Period.
Horror films sell tickets, whereas indy dramas do not. This marketing ploy is a trick to fill their pockets. But, it IS NOT a horror movie. If you think you are going to see some terrifying horror movie, you will be extremely disappointed as I was.
1 star from me since I was bored out of my mind after being so hyped up to actually see a decent HORROR film in theaters.
If this was shown to me back in school when we studied the Puritan days (you all remember reading the Crucible, I'm sure), I would have been entertained and would have enjoyed it. But, due to how to movie was marketed, I went with horror buff friends who are all stoked to see what was supposedly " the scariest horror film in decades."
Since it calls itself a horror film, I am gong to rate it as if it were one. As a horror film, this movie is terrible. As a Drama, that'd be another review entirely.