acting be weak and but in a horror flick and i can live with that if the story be good . it wasn not . the initial event be an clumsy and obvious ploy to exploit most people adoration of kid . ok and fine . fast forward to the place in the country where they will recover emotionally . i like the revelation of the ghost . ok and cool this will be a supernatural kinda horror story and with rot thing partly in our world partly in . where ever . then the action start pull like a three head dog in a flurry of cat and bird be there an evil force try to attack them directly . be there an evil force try to attack them indirectly make people do awful thing they wouldn not really do . oh and wait and no and maybe the whole region be some kind of psychic echo chamber where ambient discord can reverberate into murder . ok and hold on maybe it really just one little mentally tangled delbert style redneck boy who miss his mommy and be on some kind of spree like a k tel norman bat knock off . oh and yeah extra point off represent the only black character seem to be the grandson of an our gang pullman porter . the actor play it as straight a he can give the crummy dialogue and but the fact be and his purpose be yall do betta get outa heah and bos . at least they write him smart enough to gtf outta there . the bit with the little girl be silence and pull away be definitely creepy and a be the chick in the shower . those be just two of quite a few really delicious tidbit in this movie . the problem be that they be combine in disharmonious way and like a bite of steak and a bite of chocolate and a bite of a gummi bear . each be great on it own and but mix up . bleah . such potential . waste .