Simply Perfect

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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.....

This movie was fairly easy to watch. It kept me interested enough to want to continue to the end, but didn't require much effort from me as a viewer. It's the horror equivalent of a Sandra Bullock romantic comedy--it moves along, it tells its story, and then it's done. It's about a girl coming home from a psych ward after the death of her mother. She lives in a sprawling New England lake home with her sister, her father, and her father's new girlfriend. The daughters don't like the new love interest--they're pretty sure dad was involved with her before mom even died, even though she was the nurse hired to take care of her. The girl sees ghosts and believes that they are trying to tell her the new girlfriend had something to do with the mother's death. It ends with a twist that viewers will either be trying to guess or not see coming at all, and then it's out. Not that memorable, but easily digested. I did have a problem with the way the girl moved as slowly as possible, just like every other character in every horror movie, whenever there was a noise she needed to examine. I thought this movie was at least smart enough to get around the clichés, but when I saw how they ended it, I realized they were never worried about being original.

Okay, finally a movie that made me scare :D The scenes are perfectly directed, the lights, the camera views, the effects, the acting, the storyline. These all are made this movie a really great piece! I was happy to see it, and it kinda made my scare away, couse i was more glad to have a good horror than actually being scared XD I loved the scenes where i felt like it is my room, and it can happen to me as well. It made me feel better the fact that she is not a dumb, and the whole movie is not based on a stupid love story. I appreciated that the movie is not on anyone's side, it lets the viewer to decide who to believe. The events are reasonable, not just a bunch of events cut together in a chaotic line. No useless scenes, i never wanted to go out to the bathroom just to make something happen XD

Anna (Emily Browning) returns home from a psychiatric institution after her suicide attempt. She's been struggling after her mother's death in a fire. Her mother was ill and the caretaker Rachel Summers (Elizabeth Banks) is now her father Steven (David Strathairn)'s girlfriend. Her sister Alex (Arielle Kebbel) is convinced that Rachel killed their mother. She keeps having visions of 3 little kids. Her boyfriend Matt is killed presumably in an accident after she sees him in a vision. Her father is getting remarried to Rachel. The girls discover that Rachel is using a false identity. Anna suspects her to be Mildred Kemp who killed the 3 kids in her vision and disappeared.Emily Browning is great as a distressed teen and I like everybody in this. There is a moody ghostly sense through out the movie. This boils down to the ending. I completely understand if some people throw up their hands at the final twists. I personally scratched my head at first. In the end, I accepted it and like the movie. I could have easily gone the other way.