There are several scenes in the film that are unintentionally hilarious...and when that happens in a horror story, you're movie is dead. Take the scene where the family moves into a new house and Rose Byrne peeks in through the window and sees a ghost dancing to a song. Or how about when Patrick Wilson goes into the Further and is attacked by a huge ghost. He's then told that he's stronger than the ghosts and angrily pushes the ghost out of his way. Or when the ghosts start to cross over and are coming out of the closet and one of the ghost-hunters closes the closet door on them.
Scenes like this take you right out of the film.
Leigh Whannell and James Wan have great moments and know how to deliver suspenseful sequences. However, you have to be able to do it throughout the entire film. They had the same problem in DEAD SILENCE.
Ultimately, the film fails. POLTERGEIST did the similar theme so much more innovatively and intelligently.
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