After moving into a new house together, a woman grows increasingly concerned about her husband's new behavior around and comes to believe their new house is haunted forcing her to find a way of stopping it from continuing.
On the whole this is one of the more overrated efforts in the genre. There's not a whole lot here that works, and nearly all of that is tied in with the different supernatural antics on display which are only mildly suspenseful and thrilling. As the most notorious scene here for a reason, the encounter in the room with the flies manages to work incredibly well as the progressing swarm around his face and the louder buzzing get great suspense built up within here which naturally sets up the booming evil whispers which really comes off as creepy and chilling as possible. Elsewhere, other scenes here that come of nicely are all in the finale, from the howling voices and demented workload trying to get out of the basement as the growing pit and spackled wall coming down are off-set with the realization of the creepy back-story and the action to get away which is pretty much all that works here, along with the overall look and appearance of the house for the film's positives. There's a few flaws here that makes this one very troubling, most of which is tied in the film's insistence that his activities are chilling when they're really not. From his constant complaining about being cold, to constantly chopping firewood, snapping angrily at her, the kids, family or anyone around him and turning everything around him into the biggest deal doesn't come off as scary despite being set-up as the main scares here, as well as being boring and quite unimpressive at building an interesting story. This carries into the rest of the scare attempts here which are just as bland and boring by focusing on utterly non- threatening scare attempts as everyone here claims something's off about the house but nothing is done to ensure that these are creepy since everyone simply mentions something but is never paid off. Others are brought up and simply ignored, which makes them questionable inclusions as well, all furthering the fact that there's absolutely nothing that should keep the family in the house as long as what happens here and should've forced them out sooner regardless of how effective they are as scares. These here are what hold this down.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, a long but very mild sex scene, and Adult Language.
On the whole this is one of the more overrated efforts in the genre. There's not a whole lot here that works, and nearly all of that is tied in with the different supernatural antics on display which are only mildly suspenseful and thrilling. As the most notorious scene here for a reason, the encounter in the room with the flies manages to work incredibly well as the progressing swarm around his face and the louder buzzing get great suspense built up within here which naturally sets up the booming evil whispers which really comes off as creepy and chilling as possible. Elsewhere, other scenes here that come of nicely are all in the finale, from the howling voices and demented workload trying to get out of the basement as the growing pit and spackled wall coming down are off-set with the realization of the creepy back-story and the action to get away which is pretty much all that works here, along with the overall look and appearance of the house for the film's positives. There's a few flaws here that makes this one very troubling, most of which is tied in the film's insistence that his activities are chilling when they're really not. From his constant complaining about being cold, to constantly chopping firewood, snapping angrily at her, the kids, family or anyone around him and turning everything around him into the biggest deal doesn't come off as scary despite being set-up as the main scares here, as well as being boring and quite unimpressive at building an interesting story. This carries into the rest of the scare attempts here which are just as bland and boring by focusing on utterly non- threatening scare attempts as everyone here claims something's off about the house but nothing is done to ensure that these are creepy since everyone simply mentions something but is never paid off. Others are brought up and simply ignored, which makes them questionable inclusions as well, all furthering the fact that there's absolutely nothing that should keep the family in the house as long as what happens here and should've forced them out sooner regardless of how effective they are as scares. These here are what hold this down.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, a long but very mild sex scene, and Adult Language.