ChikPapa
Very disappointed :(
Sharkflei
Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
Scotty Burke
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Rammsteinen Sarah
OK, now, let's get started. Plot: The story itself is actually good, which is unbelievable for this movie. Plot is telling us that the weird things are happening in the house, and the environment is disturbing as well. But the rest of the movie... oh my god.Cast: Actors are really... um, awful. They don't know how to act. They don't know A N Y T H I N G. No expressions, idiotic dialogs, I think that the 'actors' got 2 dollars in the end, since the movie is so god damn awful. Why is it released anyway? I would die full of shame. Effects are scary, but overused. So overused that they become hilarious in the end. (Black guy chasing ghosts with a thing which looks like a condom; GHOST can't find the woman because she's hiding behind him while hugging another ghost; they are walking with a CANDLE around the house; at one time outside is SUNNY, and in the second scene... darkness. I mean, seriously?; The guy is DYING and in the next second he's like running without A N Y trace of B L O O D which was boiling out of him 2 seconds ago; black guy using soap to make a circle etc.) So, if you want to watch something and die of laughter, watch this.
mysticnox
The acting is so so, the special fx are actually pretty good for what they are, and there are a few places that were actually scary. My biggest problem is the little girl. Annie, I think her name is. The constant crying "mommy, daddy". Seriously? The girl that played this kid is 13 when this movie is made. No 13 year old child calls their parents "mommy" and "daddy". Its mom and dad. She sounded like a 6 year old. Especially in 2009.As for the house, I doubt they were able to film there even though the outside shots showed it. The pictures were kind of cool. Wish it had explained more of the history and stuff thats supposed to happen there.
poizenregisters
Please for the love of god never take the time to watch this movie. Its really not hard to make a good movie from low budget that will ACTUALLY scare you, take Paranormal Activity for example.The house is the only thing true about the story, which is cheesy to mislead people into watching it when they expect something totally different. Whats worse is the portrayal of the Winchester house from the outside totally looks like a scaled down version dollhouse with horrible blue screen special effects behind it. To think the movie starts with, like many horror movies of this genre, that it is based on true events is a shame.My opinion - this movie should of gone straight to DVD, and someone should have used those DVD's for shot-put practice.=============Please Read This Part If Anything=====================I only watched it because it was on netflix, and when i looked up the trailer on youtube, the reviews there were good. However, i noticed all of the reviews talked about a scam site, which luckily i never visited. The site is known as sitemoovis.co.cc and i STRONGLY advise you do not visit it. I was smart enough not to do so, i went ahead and did some research to see if anyone got any malware or bugs from it and apparently some did. I should of been more suspicious when every review with that sites name in it was VERY good, and i realized something was off when the movie was VERY BAD. I just thought the IMDb community should know of this scam and stay away from it.
karllacey1
OK this plot had more holes in it than swiss cheese...the effects were lowsy, the storyline was awful - but it did have something and I will explain at the end. The acting When the Fedex girl arrived, the acting was OK; then there was the first lady introduced an English actress and here acting was terrible, and from thereonin, the acting went downhill especially the wooden guy. He was the worst of a bad bunch of actingCasting Now there are 3 main characters, the mother who looked maybe 27 tops, the father would could have gotten away with 30 tops; then the daughter who looked like she was maybe 13-15 but switched from being a teenager into the mommy mommy thing. I think she was supposed to be about 8 years old and anyone with a pair of eyes could see that she was NOT 8 years old. Inconsistencies The father actually coughed up blood a few times because he had acquired TB; where no one knows??? And then he was fine the next minute; then he wasn't - was he sick or not ?? and more to the point; if he was dead (spoiler sorry) then how would he get sick ??? Quite often he would cough up blood, then the shot would go onto his wife, then back to him and hey presto no blood. Anyone editing crew who watched this movie should be ashamed, hell I felt ashame for them. Scary? Absolutely not, the majority of scary moments came when one of the main cast was looking at the camera and someone would walk behing them in the distance - which is OK once, alright twice, three times? four ? man it happened about twenty times. The end The end was OK actually; not for the reasons you probably think, but the storyline picked up towards the end despite everything else being awful. I am guessing the writer wrote the end of the film then thought 'hey that's a great ending...how do we get there?' Now I have absolutely ripped this movie to pieces because it is truly truly a huge piece of garbage, how can I convince anyone to watch this movie? Well I can't really but if you switch your mindset from this being a horror movie to a comedy; you will have a real laugh. I was going to turn this off, but my wife said comon let's watch it because she was laughing like crazy. So I did and I got what she was laughing at and that was it, we spent the rest of the time pulling the movie to piece making fun of it. That was the most enjoyable part. On a footnote, it also comes in 3D! on DVD....I watched the 2D version and I cannot say I will be watching the 3D format. In summary, I am struggling to find a worse movie..
