I had high hopes for this movie, because the previews had it all, creepy mansion, brat kid, creepy crawly things, ethereal voices, and darkness. I even made it past the fact that Katie Holmes (Kim) played the new girlfriend trying to win over the brat kid Sally (Bailee Madison) and hoping to still have her life unaffected with recently burdened Daddy (Guy Pearce.) Isn’t this always the way these scary little kid movies are?
New girlfriend tries to befriend brat kid without wanting to ruin relationship with the Baby-Daddy, but when the kid gets into supernatural trouble, no one believes the kid which leads everyone down the path to their destruction. Kid gets diagnosed by local shrink, everyone ignores insane child’s claim and eerie similarity to missing/dead previous owner’s story, crap hits the fan, kid wasn’t lying, everyone gets their butt whooped, the end. Well my friend this is no different.
I can only assume Katie played the awkward yet irritating, child ignoring even after putting all the pieces together, oh crap now the beasties are gonna get me, girlfriend so well because of her experience in the Cruise household. Though this movie does have the typical scares during the dark flashing lightning scenes, once the creatures’ true nature is found out, it’s all downhill from there. The kid, the family, and the critters themselves become irritating and not so scary. I kept hoping to please get to the end. The creepy creature voices even lost their eeriness towards the end. Whisper… whisper… oh shut up with it… then the grand finale dumb ending followed by the cliché “this may not be the end” closing.
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