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I watched it yesterday. And for me it seemed like people built it up a bit too much..So many people told me it was scary and I sat in the dark watching it expecting to at least jump once or twice. Didn't happen. It was a pretty descent movie over all. Just wasn't as scary as I was lead to believe.
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Agree with this 100%. I was expecting (maybe the right word is actually 'hoping') to be scared silly, and I came away without jumping in my seat once. There were a few effective scenes, which I will expand upon below.
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1. The creepy ghost-woman on top of the cupboard was pretty well done. I jumped a fraction of a bit.
2. The clapping game was also effective as a suspense builder (though I have read it is derivative of a film called The Orphan-- which I haven't seen.)
3. I thought the end scene with the sheet over the mother was pretty frightening.
Apart from these though, I thought it was maybe hyped up a bit too much. I also think that hype is particularly harmful to horror movies, because if I go in expecting to be scared, I'm usually not. Yet when I go in thinking the movie won't be that scary, I usually do get scared (most recent example of this is Paranormal 3-- the only good one in the series, imo).
Anyway, that's the end of my two cents.