Every Scary Movie Trick Possible. Yawn.

Rating: 5/10 (2 February 2012)

If you're a fan of horror flicks, this movie will eventually annoy and bore you. It's like the directors or whatever movie-powers-that-be just decided to throw every possible haunted house scary movie trick into this movie, pretty much all into one or two major haunting scenes, and then called it a day. Shadows that move? Check. Wild flying bird or rogue grounds-keeper rushing into the shot unexpectedly to induce audience screams? Check. Appearing and disappearing figures in the distance? Objects moving on their own, bumps in the night, sinister screams from the great beyond? Check check check. And YAWN. There was also not an original aspect of this plot, the "what's the point?" behind this woman in black. Not a one. It's going to be exactly what you suspect.
Now with all that said, there are a few (stress, FEW) things the movie handles pretty well. There's a LOT of darkness and silence in this movie which enhances the goosebumps of anticipation. That's good. Also the way the movie began and ended was satisfactory. You think you know what's going to happen at the end and you do. But when you REALLY get to the end, you're like "oh, well that was unexpected and kinda cool." But that's it. Just kinda cool, not even pretty cool and definitely not really cool.
Plenty of people left the theater declaring how awesome this was and how it's about time someone made a "good scary movie". Those same people also screamed at EVERYTHING all the way through. So I suppose that means if you scare easily, you'll like it. Otherwise, wait for redbox or something.
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