Powerful

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A young couple, Lisa Younger and Jared Vandenberg, escape the Los Angeles rat race for the quiet life in Joshua Tree, California but paranormal visions and voices turn the house of their dreams into a house of nightmares. They enlist the help of a spiritualist, Alex Damiano, to help exorcise the premises but this only awakens and angers the demonic presence that lurks within. When the town Sheriff, Dennis Woodruff, becomes involved, he discovers that another family mysteriously disappeared 10 years earlier without a trace and he also becomes entangled in the web of evil horror.What is surprising about this movie is not how total bad it it. Nor how it appears to never rise above the quality of a 15 year old's home movie, but that some of the "actors" have actually gotten other film work! Look for them in Barely Legal and some other quasi porn flicks.It's horrible. The plot drags on with really badly taped scenic shot of Joshua Tree and highways to no where.OMG! The only consistent thing about the film is he horrible acting.For artistic value a couple scenes are taped in sepia tone. Wow. Did you pull that out of film making book or just flip the wrong switch on your $200 camcorder?Something all you home film makers have to really start thinking about - - you need to either get a better camera than the one from Costco you're using, OR you need to spend a couple bucks in post production to soften the harshness of your HD taping. It's not appealing. Especially in a movie about the supernatural. The mystic in this movie truly cannot act her way out of a paper bag. The entire production feels like it was made on the fly. -- "Hey! I just got a new $200 video camera -- let's have another beer and make a movie!Biggest prop cost in the film? Looks like the spent about $15 on candles! Don't expect much more!

I really am not sure where an appropriate place to start for this Title is. First of all, just to give a little perspective, I am a die-hard horror film fanatic. Perhaps its a natural inclination to the twisted and terrifying, or the elements of survival, or maybe the atmosphere. I have watched horror from every sub-genre, every decade, shot in every style, and from every country it seems like. In the last one/two year(s), I have watched 200+ horror films EASILY. Almost in every single case I have been able to find a redeeming quality or SOMETHING enjoyable about the film.Not with "cold creepy feeling". Don't get me wrong, it was terrifying. I was terrified that I might gouge out my eyes after watching an hour and a half of this piece of garbage. I am really not trying to be mean either, like I said, I am the most generous horror movie fan you will ever meet. The acting was terrible and forced. Especially from the lead actress, who was annoying and came off as fake and incompetent in her role. The script was cheesy and absolutely juvenile. The plot was old, tired, old, tired, old, and tired. The camera quality and filming was the worst I have ever seen in any movie, including any other indie film. And finally, the ending. I am not going to "give anything away" in the off chance that you make the horrible decision to waste your brain cells on this film that looks and feels like it was made by someone in prepubescence. However I will say is was the sour icing on this mud pie of a movie. It was rushed, didn't follow a logical train of thought, and was just plain awful.

i do not understand IMDb's rating system. i wrote a review last night for this terrible awful movie and there were no other reviews. come back today to find four one star reviews and mine is nowhere to be found. as of yesterday this film was a 9.9 with six people who rated it. now there are ten people who rated it at i assume the last four are the four that gave it one star and left scathing reviews and is still at an 8.8. as the other reviewers say, don't bother with this "film". it was literally 40 minutes of drivel before they even get to the haunted house and the movie is only 86 minutes total.watch the trailer and you will wish you wouldn't have even wasted the 60 or so seconds doing that.

I got really exited when I seen this film especially with a 9.9 rating (being the highest I've ever seen on IMDb) so I put it on and oh my god I would not even give it a 1 out of 10, I turned it off after 5 minutes probably not even that the acting was dreadful and it looked like it had bed shoot by a kid with a home video camera! sorry for being so blunt it just I was really looking forward to watching a good horror and I really thought it would be with it hight rating and instead I got this rubbish I was very disappointed :( I really would not wast your money or Your time on this movie if you can even call it that! Just watch the trailer it says it all!! wish I had before I wasted my time on it :(