Struggling to keep up with her daily demands, a single mother trying to keep her family together finds a vicious spirit is out haunting their house and keeping them there which forces her to turn to her new boyfriend to help aid her in stopping the tormenting experience.This overall is a rather typical and clichéd haunted house story. What really tends to work well here are the intense and genuinely frightening scenes of the ghosts doling out the scares here which happens to be somewhat interesting. The fact that we're let on fairly early into the film that he hauntings have been continuous for awhile, as the initial scene of it appearing behind her in the living room coincides with the revelation of not wanting another encounter to occur again before ripping its face off for the terrified viewer, the scenes of it appearing to be a sort of imaginary friend to the daughter offer up some rather tender moments and the rather obvious scenes of the figure coming out of the walls or floors of the house give this a decidedly creepy feeling. Even the later scenes, showing the creature manifesting itself in the home in front of her and the boyfriend gives this some nice action with the way in which they get chased through the house in quite fun manners while the defense barricades used are the probable cause into letting the twist of the film come about which is admittedly quite nice. While the film does have a nice final confrontation in the house where they get to fight it one last time on their own terms, there's not much else to this one that really works as the film as a whole is quite flawed. The biggest issue here is the fact that the film goes for drama rather than horror, so the majority of the film is determined to go for the other exploits of the chosen drama rather than scares. Since she has all these outside issues to deal with, from the house being in foreclosure to the fact that she obviously recently lost her husband and is dealing with her kids' own behavior that it just feels like too many story lines that don't really belong in a horror film since these drag this to a halt after exceptionally chilling sequences in order to deal with these slow- paced sequences. That also has the other big detrimental factor of giving this one a really jarring tone which really disrupts the supernatural antics since that turns the scenes into rather useless moments because they don't offer any kind of impact if the film moves on from them quite readily. The twist is also problematic, offering up a rather needless change away from what had worked for it leading into the moment and it leaves this one feeling pointless after a while. These here really lower this one considerably.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Language and children-in-danger.

If a horror movie goes on for 30 minutes and nearly causes a split vein out of anger owing to its utter lack of talent and vision, it can't be very good, at least not for someone who actually loves the idea of a scary ghost movie and has seen a few that qualify. This "effort" was almost unbelievably bad, displaying pretty much every single mistake a horror movie should never contain. Anyway, that's just my opinion. Main flaws: there was nothing scary; the special effects were miserable; and there seemed to be no heart involved in any aspect of this film, except when filming the various attractive physical forms of Ali Larter, which seemed to be the director's main focus of attention.

Decided to watch a random film tonight just to pass the time, and I can seriously think of so many better things or films I could have watched, wooow that was terrible. From the beginning the film has a week opening and an extremely convoluted, messy, and incoherent plot that actually makes no sense. The performances, dialogue and character interactions are awkward, I actually tried to just turn my brain off and enjoy this as a fun and cheesy thrill ride, and I felt that way at first...then the story began to unfold...OOOOH BOY!! I'm just going to have fun and dissect this movie now.. So entities show up and cause things to float around like ghosts or poltergeists, their are what 3 of them but turns out they are prisoner/test subjects from the future. Where do they get their "ghost powers" from? and why does the final villain during the climax not use this ever again, it feels as though that aspect was used to fool the audience into believing this was going to be a paranormal film, but then it is never justified or explained. The entire last act just made no sense, the premise was clever and had potential but it fell apart way too quickly and irreversibly, the editing was also messy, the transitions between scenes felt pointless at times, as if to simply set up for the next creepy moment of some loud sound or jump scare that never delivered.. and I mean never, not once did I even flinch or twitch. The characters do the most laughable things in this movie it had me scratching my head, for example the mother played by Ali larter rescues her kids in one scene from the villain, brings them in another room, then leaves them there to go somewhere...just somewhere. That scene alone was ridiculous because her actions were just to have the kids become vulnerable in the most unjustified, nonsensical way, and scenes like this one are littered throughout the movie its seriously unbelievable.Characters separate for no reason, the other monsters don't really serve a purpose, and the other supporting actors other than the boyfriend really don't need to be there.The movie was just a lousy effort, I give them respect for using practical effects at times, but then that is overshadowed with terrible CGI and the monsters that are created with practical effects again are under utilised and don't serve a purpose. The premise was interesting at best but even so, many other films have taken similar ideas with mixing horror and time travel and have done it much better. Even on a night where I just wanted to kick back and just have something to watch just to pass the night, I still cannot recommend this movie, it had a cool cover art...umm yea that's about it. Don't bother with this movie.

This movie tries to hard and fails miserably at being a horror, (?) or even to make sense. It is beyond dull and will lose your interest within 15-20 minutes. The 'entity' is neither scary or convincing. The effects/makeup are overdone and look very plastic and cheap. The direction is terrible and it seems as if they couldn't decide on what genre they wanted to make this movie to be...Horror? Sci-fi? Suspense? There are plenty of movies that can pull off the multi-genre pretty well. This is not one of them. This movie pulls off nothing in fact. I really could not recommend this movie to anyone other than someone who is having a hard time falling asleep. This would be sure to cure anyone with insomina. Yes, it is that bad....