An average movie

Oh dear... It was even worse than I thought it would be. I mean, I didn't have some really high expectations concerning this flick but even so it turned out to be a huge disappointment. Indeed, it must be one of the weakest haunted house movies I have seen so far... Basically, you wait during the whole thing for something scary to happen but nothing remotely frightening happens during the whole duration. I thought it was some king of mix between 'Saw' and 'The Haunting', expect it was never unsettling or scary at any moment. Even though the cast was actually decent (Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras), the performances were quite terrible going from very cheesy to just plain annoying. Even though it seemed to be an interesting idea to remake an old horror flick (I haven't seen the original version), they couldn't have made a more terrible job than this. Compare to this, the remake of 'The Haunting' which was released the same year almost look like a masterpiece. At least, it had some decent special effects which wasn't the case here at all. To conclude, it is a very weak horror feature, I'm actually being really generous with my rating here, and it is not really worth a look whatsoever.

5/10