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I love ghost stories, I love ghost movies. This is the absolute worst movie. Not the worst ghost movie. This is the absolute worst movie I have ever seen. I consider myself to have seen more movies than most, especially horror movies, and I consider it an insult to call this a horror movie.

Let's go through the positives. The credits are short. That is about all that I have.

Just horribly boring from the first second until the last. There can really be no spoilers for this movie as nothing happens in the whole thing. It's not even badly made, it just has no story, no suspense and no horror. It is not funny, exciting or dramatic. I would rather sit through 101 ways to grow grass than to re- watch a second of this. Think about the most boring thing you have ever seen and watch that again rather than watch this. IMDb really need to invest a no star rating. Unless you suffer from insomnia, avoid at all costs.

Please let me begin by stating that I love the original movie; it is easily among my most favourite ever movies. For this reason, I decided to view this remake as it's own movie, trying not to compare it to the original. Being a fan of paranormal movies, and seeing the trailer for this movie, I had hoped that I was in store for a scarefest. By the time that the credits were rolling, I had realised that what I had seen was something quite different to what was advertised.

The trailer shows that this is a very scary movie whereas, however desensitised I may be to the majority of scary movies, I feel that it is a lot less scary than it could have been. Please do not get me wrong, a good portion of the movie was scary, tension-building or/and interesting but then far too much of the movie was comical. For me, the movie felt almost like a ramped-up Ghostbusters.

This doesn't mean to say that the movie was not entertaining, I was very entertained and I felt that the movie was good, just not necessarily what was advertised.

I thought Sam Rockwell was largely mis- cast as the father of the family and felt that his role needed a much more commanding performance. It would have been interesting to see somebody like Christian Bale in that role. Rosemarie DeWitt did well as the mother of the family. Kennedi Clements performance was excellent and beyond her years as Madison and Kyle Catlett possibly shone as the star of the cast with his showing in the part of Griffin. Saxon Sharbino was just annoying and unnecessary as the elder daughter.

I loved the effects that were used as nothing looked too unbelievable.

Overall, this is a solid movie with a good script but expect to chuckle more than jump.