Horrible pg-13 jump scare schlock fest that relies stupid characters
Spoiler alert:
Let's stay over with mom. We'll set up a montage of putting out extra bulbs, hiding flashlights, lighting candles and setting up the living room as a sort of bunker of light. Then, instead of staying together where there is safety in numbers, we'll have the young boy stay alone in his room with a f'ing candle to protect him.
But the boy doesn't want to sleep alone and asks his big sister to sleep with him in his room, upstairs, by the room with the ghost lady, leaving the boyfriend alone downstairs.
I don't know, idiots, why not stay together?
Oh yeah....the "plot". So after setting up all of the lights, and extra bulbs in a montage what happens? The ghost cuts the power to the house. OK. I guess the montage was pointless. Talk about lazy script writing.
So the boyfriend runs outside to check the street light - because reasons - instead of running upstairs to check on his g/f and her brother. Because plot, of course.
The girlfriend wakes up and decides to go check the fuse box in the basement BY HERSELF and leaves her brother alone, asleep, in a dark room with a single candle to save him. Did the movie establish that Diane won't attack you if you're sleeping? NO? Then why did she leave him alone and defenseless while asleep in a room with a candle?
So the boy wakes up, freaks out (duh) and runs downstairs - after being attacked - and finds the sister in the basement. He tells her "don't ever leave me again". Apparently the kid is the only one with any intelligence.
Sister tells him she won't.
what a liar.
Not but moments later she is ditching her brother by a fireplace to go exploring on her own with a blacklight.
Because "plot".
Formulaic schlop like this is why the horror genre has become a joke. There was no backstory to this movie other than "mom was in mental asylum and met a girl who was not good and then an experiment happened now ghost...don't worry about it".
The jump scares were so painfully obvious they didn't even work and the ghost wasn't even scary when she was on the screen. It was just a black shape with eyes.
Something needs to change in the horror industry. This even has James Wan's name on it (it clearly is more of a liability these days than a boon).
Disappointing, at best.