I really wanted to like this movie; good horror films are so hard to find. Unfortunately, this was not a good horror (or even a good film). It started out shallow and irritating, but hey - I had sunk money into watching (most readers will know what that means), so I stuck with it, hoping that the story would improve as it went on.

Sadly, it was not to be. The annoying, facile leads persisted in their stupidity; the older "authority" figures barely registered as characters, fluctuating between awkward permissive enabling and half-hearted scolding of the protagonists, depending on the severity of the situation.

In short, this is a threadbare, glib rehash of every horror trope from The Monkey's Paw to Hill House, with none of the character development, depth or humanity that defined those masterpieces. It's a cheap knockoff that ultimately culminates in a victim story; no conclusion, no satisfying payoff - just a predictable "twist" that the filmmakers apparently felt justifies the whole contrived mess. It doesn't.