Shining

Well, he is a writer and ...no, that's it.

Yes. The shots of creepy children standing in the hallway definitely remind me of Shining.

I picked up on it too

No, you're not. I saw elements of The Amityville Horror and The Shining.

You're not alone. My mom and I just saw this and she said the same thing... The Shining. Just... a very poor copy though. Of the elements, that is. The children in the corridor weren't half as frightening. And Ethan Hawke is no Jack Nicholson.

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Fear not for the future; weep not for the past -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Yes, because the father grows increasingly agitated as the film progresses. He also happened to be be a writer.

No! I was thinking that right at the beginning. The story made me think of Pet Semetry too.

It's definitely there. The college Tshirt Ethan wears. The second I saw it I was like, does that say Stovington College?? It said Bennington, but still. His speech in the bedroom was very similar to Jack's speech about his job at the overlook and how he could really write his own ticket by working a car wash or shoveling our driveways etc. And just the child spirits thing in general.