If you have some familiarity with made for television movies from the 1970s, you will probably see that this movie got inspiration from the 1974 made for television thriller "Bad Ronald". To their credit, the makers of the newer movie did manage to change a lot of things so that their movie couldn't be labelled a blatant rip-off. But during the course of their changes, they almost completely stripped away anything that could make this movie good. I don't really want to list any spoilers, but I will say that there are a significant number of plot holes that someone during the production should have spotted and have patched up before filming started. (For example: How did the antagonist get food when there were periods where no one was living in the house?) But what really sinks the movie is how boring and uneventful most of it is. After setting up the situation in the first few minutes, the next hour or so has practically nothing happen that advances the plot - it's just one mysterious incident after another, none of which is particularly scary or creepy. Things do start to happen in the last twenty minutes, but it isn't enough to save things. If you want to see a superior movie that was inspired by "Bad Ronald", look for the Gary Busey movie "Hider in the House" instead.

The beginning was quite slow, seemed like a boring C list cast- made for TV thriller. But the last half hour made the movie! They should have added much more of the thriller suspense than boring "after school special" talks between step mom, dad, and typical acting out teen.

I liked the actors! However, the storyline was a tough one to buy into in today's setting. Anyone with an engineering or construction background would laugh at this. I'm sure the real estate professionals are having a good laugh also at the holes in this story! I'm not sure how the writers can think that their viewing audience could possibly be this dumb! It's too stupid to be scary.

This movie is sooooooooo boring. Family moves into a house where the previous family died, hears noises in the wall, the cat is freaked by the noises in the wall, things are moved... hmmmm what could it be? Pretty freakin obvious. The most ominous thing that happens after the first 30 minutes is a picture falling off the wall... ooooh so scary. It takes another 30 minutes -- a full hour into the film before you see anything mildly interesting. The concept is just so overdone and you will see it coming a mile away. Waiting for the family to figure it out is so incredibly dull. It doesn't even get interesting until the last 15 minutes and the ending is a real eye-roller since it's pretty obvious what's got to happen to the family. Yaaawwwn. If you want to save some time, watch this movie on fast forward until the last 15 minutes. Oh trust me, you won't need the dialogue to figure this one out pretty quick on fast forward and you will save yourself a lot of time.