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I thought this was rather good, as far as haunted house movies go. It does well with the tension and unsettling scenes, and there is a little gore but nothing over the top. The standard-issue teens behave reasonably sensibly - trying not to split up, running away rather than seeing what is under the sheet etc.. The worst thing about the movie is that it has that flat TV-show look rather than the cinematic depth of a real movie, and this lessens the atmosphere. If I were being super picky I would also fault it for a fairly random string of set pieces, most of which are taken from other films, that have only a tenuous link to a witchcraft theme; however, it's all done rather well and no-one was probably expecting originality here.