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Weak adaptation of the Jay Anson book is decent haunted house shocker starring Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George who, along with George's three children, move into a house where several murders were committed just a year before, by a man claiming to have been influenced by "demons." A film with more negatives (including the addition of a tiresomely trite new backstory focusing on Native Americans) than positives, yet which delivers purely cathartic chills more consistently than many other movies of its type, several of which will no doubt occur to you as the scenes in this film play out. Subtle, it ain't.
Weak adaptation of the Jay Anson book is decent haunted house shocker starring Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George who, along with George's three children, move into a house where several murders were committed just a year before, by a man claiming to have been influenced by "demons." A film with more negatives (including the addition of a tiresomely trite new backstory focusing on Native Americans) than positives, yet which delivers purely cathartic chills more consistently than many other movies of its type, several of which will no doubt occur to you as the scenes in this film play out. Subtle, it ain't.