After the birth of their daughter, a young couple trying to settle into their new parental roles finds that their daughter has the ability to see and communicate with demonic spirits which soon puts them in danger when their efforts to protect her fail and are forced to try to stop them.
This was quite the unimpressive and overly bland effort. What really tends to hold this one down is the long stretches of time where nothing much happens to make this one feel like a genre effort. The fact that it never tries to tie in the initial stages of their parenting with the idea of something actually happening due to the baby being there, as the films' highly cliched storyline proves rather continuously throughout here. With the idea of them being new parents being subjected to supernatural forces being dropped in favor of them undergoing the protection rituals for several years in what amounts to normal behavior on their part, the film brings about an unduly sense of boredom where nothing much is happening and that gives off a restrained first half which has nothing going on. The ease with which they resort to the supernatural to explain everything gives this a rather odd feeling as well with the instant approval of their fathers' sayings as gospel which simply gives this the kind of hackneyed setup that forces a confusing air around it to where it's hard to believe that had any real impact on the film itself with the total lack of explanations for what's going on around them. Likewise, the film's odd sense of jumping around to different time-periods with no warning or notice makes this one even more jarring as there's no warning or knowledge of what's happening. From finding her being pregnant at the start to immediately seeing the two in the delivery room with her the next second and suddenly then being with the six-year-old daughter in the middle of the scene creates a jarring sense to this that really could've been easily avoided. The last real issue here is the exceptionally dull finale where it tends to keep the same pace going in regards to the family forcing her to undergo the training for her skill-set which manages to really just feel incredibly bland as the endless scenes of them out in the woods or wandering around the house doing nothing which really doesn't bode too well here. These here really hold it down from the few fine points to be had here, which mainly revolve around the few haunting scenes at its core. The first attack in the house is a solid sequence, as well as the later scene where they find out her antics have brought a vicious creature into their midst. As well, once it moves back into the house in the woods where the creature attacks them staying there, it does have some solid moments with the chilling creatures coming into play and bringing about some fine brawls and encounters that do serve it well. These, though, are all that really work for this one.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence and continuous children-in-jeopardy.
This was quite the unimpressive and overly bland effort. What really tends to hold this one down is the long stretches of time where nothing much happens to make this one feel like a genre effort. The fact that it never tries to tie in the initial stages of their parenting with the idea of something actually happening due to the baby being there, as the films' highly cliched storyline proves rather continuously throughout here. With the idea of them being new parents being subjected to supernatural forces being dropped in favor of them undergoing the protection rituals for several years in what amounts to normal behavior on their part, the film brings about an unduly sense of boredom where nothing much is happening and that gives off a restrained first half which has nothing going on. The ease with which they resort to the supernatural to explain everything gives this a rather odd feeling as well with the instant approval of their fathers' sayings as gospel which simply gives this the kind of hackneyed setup that forces a confusing air around it to where it's hard to believe that had any real impact on the film itself with the total lack of explanations for what's going on around them. Likewise, the film's odd sense of jumping around to different time-periods with no warning or notice makes this one even more jarring as there's no warning or knowledge of what's happening. From finding her being pregnant at the start to immediately seeing the two in the delivery room with her the next second and suddenly then being with the six-year-old daughter in the middle of the scene creates a jarring sense to this that really could've been easily avoided. The last real issue here is the exceptionally dull finale where it tends to keep the same pace going in regards to the family forcing her to undergo the training for her skill-set which manages to really just feel incredibly bland as the endless scenes of them out in the woods or wandering around the house doing nothing which really doesn't bode too well here. These here really hold it down from the few fine points to be had here, which mainly revolve around the few haunting scenes at its core. The first attack in the house is a solid sequence, as well as the later scene where they find out her antics have brought a vicious creature into their midst. As well, once it moves back into the house in the woods where the creature attacks them staying there, it does have some solid moments with the chilling creatures coming into play and bringing about some fine brawls and encounters that do serve it well. These, though, are all that really work for this one.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence and continuous children-in-jeopardy.