Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Benas Mcloughlin Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

dragonkeeper-07401 The movie had potential but was poorly executed. Started out interestingly enough. But quickly became boring and I lost interest. More attention should have been paid to the actual experiment. I was completely lost when Patrick was explaining how they were going to get rid of the ghost. Like, what? Don't get me wrong it had some thrilling moments but I would hardly classify this as a "Horror" If I could take back the last 2 hours of my life I would. The only redeeming quality is the cast... But barely. Dont waste your time. If you want horror might I suggest: The House of The Devil, The Thing, The Omen and basically any other horror movie that isn't this.

Milk_Tray_Guy Someone apparently decided that 'Paranormal Activity' + 'Pulse' + 'The Grudge' = good movie. Sadly in this case the math was way off.There are interesting ideas here but the execution is lacking. Credit where it's due; Sebastian Stan gives an impressively edgy performance and Tom Felton shows there's more to him than Draco Malfoy (it's a shame he isn't given more to do). Ashley Greene... looks pretty in her underwear. In all honesty she wasn't given much to do here - despite ostensibly being the lead. The cinematography is good - and that's about it.What should be a straight-forward plot is jumbled by unnecessary elements and images that seem to be included simply because someone thought they'd 'look cool'. It's not enough to take inspiration from great and/or successful horror movies, you need to understand why they were so great and/or successful - and first-time director (and writer) Todd Lincoln apparently doesn't. The opening five minutes hold promise, but it's downhill from there. I like atmospheric chillers, but this is short on atmosphere and the chills are non-existent. 5/10

Leofwine_draca THE APPARITION is yet another CGI ghost film from the good ol' US of A. Apparently, producers haven't cottoned on yet that the general viewing public are sick and tired of these clichéd, poorly written products, so they keep on churning them out. This one's the work of Dark Castle Entertainment, who first came to light with the remakes of HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and THIRTEEN GHOSTS at the turn of the century, but whose horror fare has steadily deteriorated ever since.The plotting of THE APPARITION is entirely boring for the most part. It involves an unlikable and self-centred couple who discover their home is haunted by the traditional CGI spook. Cue lots of CGI-augmented scare scenes and not much sense. Ashley Greene and Sebastian Stan make for the most boring, vapid leading characters I've seen for a while in a film, and I was hoping they'd be bumped off by the vengeful spook early on in the proceedings. No such luck.Where THE APPARITION has promise is in its filmed back story, taking place during the 1970s, where a team of university researchers manage to conjure up the spook. Tom Felton (13HRS) is on hand and as a whole this is very interesting stuff, based on documented records. If the whole film had been set in the 1970s and stayed with these characters (a la THE CONJURING) then it might have been more interesting, instead of the usual generic mess.

hillshaw-1 Don't know why some people didn't appreciate this film. The action, spooky effects, begin early and keep up right to the end - and do not miss the graphics at the end with the credits either. The film is like Paranormal Witness on steroids. And the weird post-industrial landscape with pylons and desert where the film is mainly set in just adds to the atmosphere. Definitely one to watch, especially in a dark room with just the telly on. What happens to the house, even the furniture, is just amazing. You've really got to watch what happens to the stair banisters and that sideboard towards the end, and before that the guy on the ceiling, well that was really tense too. And the bit where the camera is dragged towards the tent in the garden. Also when this woman ends up in a deserted DIY type store but there's just something not quite right about how the store looks, apart from being weirdly closed yet she got in there somehow. Any way as said above this film is just one scare after another and must be seen.