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People are way too harsh with this movie


I watch around 75 to 100 horror movies every year. Sure, this one doesn't really stand out as one of the best, but nowhere even NEAR the worst.

There's some pretty good acting, of course except for the kids, but standards should be dropped at this point. There's a definite attention to details in the story that terrible horror movies don't have. The directing is very good for a first movie, with more experience, Thomas Della Bella could become a cult director.

As for the whole "cliché" part, well, the movie tries to tell a scary haunted house story. There's no original haunted house stories anymore, it's done. So why not just enjoy some good ole fashion firecamp story? That's all this movie is, there was no bad intention, no stupidity, just a good ambient ghost story.

Don't think you'll be watching a great horror movie, more like a fine little ghost story from your childhood. It deserves a 5 or 6 on IMDb, nothing less, nothing more. I'm actually intrigued to see more from the director/writer.

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i thought it was decent




i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners

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Attention to details? No stupidity?

- The realtor comes off and seems purposefully made to come off as knowing more than she's letting on. Nothing ever comes of this.

- The daughter is forever flip-flopping between normal teenager angst, and completely uncaring dick gobbler. Seriously, her sister is taken to the hospital and she immediately calls her BF over? She flat out ignores her siblings and falls asleep? Sneaks out despite all the weird *beep* happening? No. Teens can be disconnected with reality, sure, but if she's going to be an uncaring bitch, they shouldn't have had her turn around and be so sorrowful about A) her father when she finds him in the attic and B) her siblings when she figures out they're possessed. It was BEYOND idiotic.

Not to mention, she's the only that isn't affected, AT ALL, by anything happening there until the very end. That's not *beep* realistic in the least!

- The neighbor lady has ZERO point in being in this film. Her grandfather having a stroke in the house has absolute no relevance to what is happening to anyone currently living IN the house. Given what the ghost seemingly cares about, why make the grandfather have a stroke? And how?

- The father being completely disconnected and not noticing his two kids IMMEDIATE personality change into zombies, especially that one morning in the kitchen there. Distraught and distracted does not negate such glaringly obvious problems with your kids.

- The baseball bat scene has no context at all. It isn't even made apparent that it was a dream until the kid pops up alive again as if nothing actually happened, and the father seems completely unfazed by having such a dream.

- The 3 am BS. The spirits seem to be able to come out whenever the *beep* they want, regardless of what time it is. This "rule" is so quickly disregarded and twisted, it might as well have never been in there to begin with.

- The night light scene. Given the ghost girl is, apparently, trying to warn them off, what did she think was going to come of doing that?

- The man's mother said she was going to come there. We never see her, we never find out happened with her, there was no point in having that AT ALL.

- The ghost is somehow defeated or depowered, but then just...conjures herself back regardless so there isn't a happy ending? That made NO sense. And it completely slaps what little reasoning there was to everything right in the face and gives it the finger. If the box and its contents were never what was possessing the kids and causing that *beep* then what the *beep* was the point of it? Oh right - no point.

And on, and on, and on. You have SERIOUSLY low standards.

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The daughter is forever flip-flopping between normal teenager angst, and completely uncaring dick gobbler. Seriously, her sister is taken to the hospital and she immediately calls her BF over? She flat out ignores her siblings and falls asleep? Sneaks out despite all the weird *beep* happening? No. Teens can be disconnected with reality, sure, but if she's going to be an uncaring bitch, they shouldn't have had her turn around and be so sorrowful about A) her father when she finds him in the attic and B) her siblings when she figures out they're possessed. It was BEYOND idiotic.
Sounds like almost every teenager ever.

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Yeah, no. Teens can be sullen and overly emotional, but they're not soulless, uncaring *beep* Especially when it comes to their family. There's a different between being a drama queen, and not giving a *beep* at all.

Clearly, though, you base teenagers based entirely on what you see in shows and movies and think that's how they actually are! I bet you also think you were a saint as a teenager too, don't you? LOL

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