this review contain spoiler . i do not have any expectation about this movie . i pull it off the video store rack with the movie and white noise . first and the credit for this stupid movie run about 5 minute into it . the pacing from start to finish be slooooow . the main heroine do not like to wear a bra and the director appear to enjoy the jiggle effect a anna paquin descend the stair . if you like movie for booby and this one have a low level buzz factor . second and it nice that the movie rip off element of lovecraft and other horror genre mechanism and but in good movie and there be at least some rational or consistently irrational behavior . this stinker try to establish some sense of modernity and reality but then you have situation where no one call the police even though they have uncover a treasure trove of potentially incriminate forensic evidence and and otherworldly ritual be nicely spell out in a comprehensive book on otherworldly ritual like on buffy . i be wait for mile to show up and give some consultation on how to slay a certain demon type of so and so . the premise be that it be possible to open up an age of darkness where creature that crawl on the ceiling can cut your throat or turn the meat grinder effect on you . ho hum . to do this you need to have a sacrificial circle and then have seven kid who must have their throat cut by people who love them . this open the world to the age of darkness . at least that what it say in complete detail in the book of ancient occult ritual . which raise the annoy question of and uh and well and how do the one who write the book know and and and if this be what happen and would you really leave this information in a book you can take out from the library and much less get it from a library in a world that be not cover already in darkness and an age bring on by lunatic who could have perform this like much earlier use the occult practice to bring the world to darkness for dummy and 2nd edition . it turn out the father in the story be the 7th child and the one that run away from the ritual 40 year ago while he be release by his father and who be the doctor or grandfather in the movie and who want to try the ritual with presumably and other stupid parent and who just want to see if dumb sht like this open the world to darkness actually work . the grandpa let the father go because he do not really love him . aduh . stupid stupid movie write by a moronic director who appear to think he some kind of eurofilm auteur . there also a scene in the movie where the kid appear with big welt on his face and the mother grab him and have this total lack of reaction . the whole movie be like this . people see really weird sht go on and not react to it in any sort of normal way . must be bad plot and direction . anna paquin do her best to play her character realistically without crack a smirk and and she do look smash in a halter top and but at several critical moment in the story and her character doesn not bother to call in for back up . you know and more of the same and i will walk into a likely demonic evil situation without any knowledge of defense or help from others carry flashlight or firepower even though i sense impend doom . and even dumber a it may seem and even if you bring on the age of darkness and these creature who make you bloody can not attack if you have a light source and but they appear a people you know and and tell you to turn off the light source . remind me of the video game alone in the dark while maybe this movie be a rip off of that game concept . the best actor in the film be the young kid and anna . they both die at the end . the entire family dy . the darkness creature lead them to their death and but really and the stupidity of the character in the family be the main cause of death . the other adult could be interchangeable with any other actor from the red shoe diary series of fine cinema . so to wrap up and the bad thing about this movie be the stupidity of the character in bump around blindly in an obviously abnormal situation and the really crap plot ( there be an old architect in the story who design a house with a sacrificial altar hidden in it the architect have suspect from the beginning there would be occult sacrifice in the house but doesn not tell anyone because and well and no real reason and they couldn not find the kid and but he do not bother to tell authority about the hidden room which he design into the house but he do like to hang around the house for a 40 year period because he worry about what be go on inside . derrrrh . duuuuh ) and the hackneyed use of scare mechanism ( more child stand around in the dark or only show up in photograph and and blood on the wallpaper ) and and the egotism of the director which when you see him in the dvd feature describe his crap work a a new and original rendition and make you understand where the real horror of this movie lie . be it entertain . at 2x speed on a dvd player with the subtitle turn on and it can be entertaining and until your reach the end and realize the movie be crap and otherwise it draaaaaaaags on . the cinematic equivalent of a fatty shake while the empty calorie be horrid . the movie give the feel the director must have see the ring and want to attempt to create something similar in mood and which in this respect and the film fail miserably and and so and also and in this respect and jaume balagueró and it be my opinion that you suck at what you do .