26
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonThe helmer generates suspense with shrewd pacing, deft emotional manipulation and efficient use of familiar tricks -- jittery editing, flickering lights and unsettling sounds -- common to haunted-house pictures.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckActually offers some decent scares before descending into typical horror film bombast.
- 42Film.comWilliam GossFilm.comWilliam GossTo the film’s credit, it doesn’t waste much time in doling out shadowy figures and fake-outs for the gullible and easily goosed, and the cast as a whole dutifully delivers its panicked looks and cries in the night.
- The storytelling, from a script by David Coggeshall, is at times nearly incoherent and relies too often on random scares.
- 20Time OutNick SchagerTime OutNick SchagerThe story is ultimately nothing more than a decrepit vehicle for the moldiest of scary-movie clichés: screechy specters, inane character behavior and jump scares that a toddler could anticipate minutes ahead of time.
- 10Village VoiceScott FoundasVillage VoiceScott FoundasThe rotting corpses, projectile insect vomit, and creepy geezers in black arrive pretty much on cue, as does the great Cicely Tyson as the obligatory old blind woman who "sees" more than most people with two good eyes. It's her upper bridge, though, that's truly the scariest thing in the whole movie.