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This movie is getting some attention lately, has anyone else seen it? I ended up doing so, though I did not plan it, because I don't like haunted hosue movies much.

^ Even though I'm not a fan of scary movies much, I was thinking of seeing this because there wasn't too much else I was interested in (and nobody wants to see Pacific Rim with me). What'd you think of it?

I went to see that movie. It was a great horror.

I'm not a big fan of horror, but I did go see this. Didn't find it scary, and the last third was almost cartoonish.

I warn that there are some small SPOILERS ahead, but they do not really mean much. The movie is mostly predictable, with a few exceptions, and what I am putting here is not worth putting the whole post in black.

It was okay. I found a lot of it funny, just because, while it was well done (no music stinger for scares, no stupid jump scares, stayed focused on the family), it also used a lot of things from haunted house/exorcism movies that I have seen a lot. The cluelessness of the father of the family was one example, until things got really bad, he seemed oblivious to all the weird/scary stuff happening every day. After a few days of seeing them in the house, I said "your house is haunted, how can you not see that?"

Another funny moment (to me) is how the demonologists they get to look at this stuff use cameras and detectors, and then show it to a priest. They showed the priest a video of a girl being dragged into the air by some unseen force, and stuff flying all over the room. His response was basically "I dunno, they aren't Catholic...I better ask the Vatican about this. Yes, lives are in danger, but he feels he needs permission. He ends up doing nothing anyway.

Also, why is this house haunted? They look into some history, and find multiple cases of madness and suicide. But it really goes back to some woman named Bathsheba, who lived in the 18th century. She lived there with her husband, and when their first child was born, one day she sacrificed it by burning it in the fireplace, because she was a witch. Her husband saw, and she ran out, somehow got up a tall tree with a rope tied into a noose (did she prepare this or something) and declared her love for Satan before hanging herself. The way that is said in the movie made me burst out laughing from the cliched, ridiculous over the topness of it. Even in movie, the guy told all this just says "uh, yeah, that'll do it."

Also, the exorcism bit shown, as well as the other exorcisms shown in flashbacks, were kind of funny to me. One of their cases had an inverted cross appear, apparently clear proof of demonic possession because SATAN. The movie follows the stereotype that "exorcism is Catholic, even if you are not." The inverted cross amused me because some Catholics have to know that the Pope has an inverted cross, the cross of St. Peter, on the back of his chair. I am picky about facts sometimes, and seeing the inverted cross constantly be misconstrued like this in movies is starting to get old.

All that said, it is more in the vein of an old type of haunted house movie, mixed with The Exorcist. And when the people living in the house finally get out of denial(pretty quickly after they all see the weird stuff at the same time), they act rationally and treat the whole thing like a deadly threat, so not much to nitpick about stupid protagonists, except for that father. Its best moments are actually pretty quiet, you see weird stuff happening and ghosts just in the background, not even noticed. And since the five kids in the house notice first, it remided me a lot of how scary a house like that can be if you are a kid. I would say the scariest scenes were the ones with the kids dealing with the haunted stuff.

totaly loved the film, just so dark and creepy, maybe in my top 10 of horror films

Totally loved this film too! Was so scared I nearly prolapsed my rectum!