This movie sucked. That's not unusual for the genre, and it's not unusual for a movie I wind up seeing, but it's probably more interesting to figure out exactly WHY it sucked. And it sucked some serious suckitude.
For starters, there's the annoying fact that everyone keeps saying that person X died in the apartment or person Y died in the apartment. Only one person ever died in the apartment according to everything we hear (not including actually in the movie). Everyone else died on the pavement 13 floors below. Yes, these little things bother me, and especially when they are supposed to be accompanied by spirits who haunt the place because of their death 13 floors below. These women should be haunting a manhole cover.
Okay, that's not actually the worst sin of this movie, but I had to put it out there. Now, on to the acting. Well, I say there is acting, but there are few actual "actors" in this movie. Even Rebecca De Mornay doesn't bother to deliver what you might call a "performance" in any way. And yet, she was the best of the bunch. Mischa Barton is possibly the worst actress I've seen in any movie made in 2013.
The story is complete and utter crap. I've seen lots of these movies where someone moves into a haunted house where the spirit wants to get rid of them, and I've never seen it done so poorly. I guess they decided that you could get more scare by having the ghost actually push people and hit people and generally just be like other people except they are dead and sometimes disappear. At one point, a ghost drags someone through the room, and the woman being pulled had to not try too hard, as they didn't bother with the special effect that makes the ghost seem super strong.
The sets and cinematography have to be lumped in together for the horrible shot-on-a-first-generation-iPhone dark and sterile look and feel to the whole movie. The sets look like they were built with balsa wood and tooth paste while the camerawork would be better if it was a GoPro attached to the collar of a happy dog.
The idea of the creepy girl with hair in her eyes is not new. It was probably best done in The Ring, and it is... not done well here. The girl is, for one, too old to make it effective. She's just a whacked out teenage girl, and quite honestly, most teenage girls are like two degrees away from this level of whacked out in the first place.
Directing was bad
Acting was horrific
Cinematography was horrendous
Effects were crap
Story was horrible
0.25/5