1 part Poltergeist + 1 part Amityville Horror + 1 part Exorcist. Directed by this talentless hack. How talentless? He's directing Fast & Furious 7.
Review with some spoilers:
The film opened to critical acclaim, and grossed over $318 million worldwide from its $20 million budget, making it one of the highest grossing horror films of all time.
I don't fucking know how. I'll grant you there are some "jump" moments, but they're telegraphed like smoke signals on an open plain. Additionally, The A-Team had more people die on screen. The plot doesn't seem original in any way, other than it's a composite of a few stories you already know. It's formulaic, it drags, and you start wondering why in the fuck they all aren't wide awake at 3:07am every morning with crosses and holy water at the ready instead of getting caught off-guard or sleeping alone. Ron Livingston looks genuinely confused and scared, unaware of how he got on set, or maybe it's early Alzheimer's.
The real tension in this flick is built on bureaucracy. No really. 90% of the plot line is merely getting approval from the Church to get an official priest to do a proper exorcism. Then the writers said, "Eh, fuck that, we don't need this, do we," and decide to let the other dude perform it.
By the by, the two paranormal investigators in here are based on these con artists, famous for bullshitting about the DeFeo murders, otherwise known as the the shit that actually happened in the house that inspired the Amityville Horror.
Verdict:
If this flick sucked any harder, I'd believe it came from a joint effort of Whedon and Abrahms.
Edited By Malcolm on 1402890533