I went into this film expecting nothing special but it was far better than anticipated with a good twist at the end. For me the lead actress did a good job in portraying the story along with a great performance from veteran actor David Strathairn who is good in all he does. Some good surprises along the way enhanced this cool mystery horror which most certainly keeps your attention throughout.

The only good thing I can say about this movie is Elizabeth Banks, but that still doesn't help this film out at all. She should just stick with comedy and what she is good at because after seeing this, horror is definitely not her strong suit. And the two girls that played the sisters were just horrible actors. I watched this with my girlfriend and every scene I could call out what was going to happen next and 99% of the time I was right. Other than them, the plot points had nothing to do with each other and this movie made no sense at all.. Horrible movie. The 40 year old virgin was more scary than this. Do not watch unless you want to be disappointed.....

I was so angry that I wasted this time in my life, hoping this film would get better and make sense. You would think with Spielberg's DreamWorks attached that would have been a real possibility. However, I was left with an empty feeling of HOW DOES A FILM LIKE THIS GET MADE??? I figured this film out in the first 9 minutes and it never scared me, shocked me, surprised me or above all impressed me. It was plain predictable drek with so many devices being used one wonders what the "real screenplay" read like?So disappointed. Spend your time more wisely and don't waste it on this piece of flotsam.

Returning home from a time in an insane asylum, a young woman and her sister's ghostly experiences convince them something isn't right with their father's new girlfriend, and take it upon themselves to figure out the truth behind the situation.Overall this here was quite the impressive and overly enjoyable remake. Among the better qualities here is the fantastic atmosphere present, which makes this one far more chilling and suspense than expected not only in the film itself but inside a film of this rating. The opening revelation back-story of the journey through the woods, coming across the corpse in the trash-bag and being up in the house before the explosion makes for make for a solid opening along with the fine questioning afterward where it fills in on why its important, while what happens at the house is where this really gets going. Following up the hallucination in the outhouse is the stellar sequence in the living room seeing the ghost materialize from the floor in the middle of the absolutely dark, creepy room and then crawling over to her horrified in the corner while the dream she has about her boyfriend as her flashback to the diner scene with the creepy children before seeing him crawl through and change into the deformed being that mirrors his real- life condition. These fun scenes give this one a wholly fun and enjoyable build here to the engrossing mystery at the heart of the film, from their search into her name and the connection with her previous job using the online pictures and reports combined with the ghostly prompting from her visions at the funeral create a really strong sense here that goes hand-in-hand with the stellar twist at the end here for a really great story. Though the twist itself seems so obvious when looking back on the scenes after the fact but comes off incredibly well and shocking here with the really startling manner it flashes back at the end with the encounter in the house being shown what really happened and how the girl got everything done in real life which gives this some nice bits of action as well as clearing up a lot of the other lame story lines. These here all make this one quite fun and enjoyable enough to help hold this up over the few minor flaws here. The biggest issue here is the film's rather decided lack of ghost action throughout the course here, as there's so few scenes here that it really tends to get overlooked here in this kind of story to the point of even wondering whey it was included. There's no importance placed on their appearance, there's no information gleamed from them and it doesn't really put them in a position to really put it's twist into motion by really offering all that much to suspect that. As well, the film's continual insistence on threatening her with the return to the asylum over whether she's insane or not is rather tiresome and repetitive and there's little about it that's appealing. Otherwise there's a lot to like here.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and a brief, mild sex scene.