After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Blistering performances.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

I love watching true story haunting movies and after reading a write up on this movie and reading the history of the house, I was eager to watch it but I was very disappointed, In my opinion it is a total waste of time and money, not only for me but the actual movie itself.The acting was so lame a group of normal people could have done better. And after watching the whole movie I cannot for the life of me figure out where they got the story from considering it is supposed to be a true story.If anyone can figure out how they got the story I would be interested to hear from them.I would also go as far to say that is the worst movie I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of movies in my time as I am no spring chicken.

Oh no. I wasn't going to write a review because I don't really like writing negative reviews - however ...This film is so awful. I can't begin to describe how awful it is. The acting, the effects, the story line ... Everything. The acting is so bad, I don't know whether the actors were terrible or the script was terrible. Maybe it was both. It wasn't even funny bad acting; it was just plain bad. Cringe.The effects were so bad I was shocked to learn this film was made in 2009. Seriously, the 80s had better effects. The ghosts weren't scary, the noises were irritating and let's face it, stupid. Nothing creepy about this film.The story line ... What story line? I don't know why the house was haunted. I don't know why things were happening. I was irritated by the characters and hoped that horrible things happened to them.The film needs far more work. It has the basis for a pretty good film, but it just feels so rushed. Sorry to any writers, directors, actors etc of this film; you did a bad job I'm afraid. I wish I could give less than 1/10.

Despite a low budget and mediocre acting with blue screen effects that make you laugh, this movie is actually quite good. Not many movies these days are actually scary. In an age where sawing someone's head in two makes people yawn, it seems time to bring back some old fashioned scares. Based on the legendary Winchester house this movie provided those old school thrills with very little gory violence. The threat is consistent and sustained allowing the viewer to feel threatened where other horror movies would back off. Despite all the negative aspects to the film it is enjoyable to watch and the fact it is so cheap actually helps. Hollywood often gloss over horror making it unscary, this goes the whole way to provide good entertainment.a worthwhile watch

Okay there were countless reasons why this movie was atrocious. But i can honestly say that it was placed in the wrong genre. I really think it belongs in the comedy section of a movie store / netflix. The acting was HORRIFIC. The movie was supposed to last 1 hour 25 minutes but it took my sister and I almost 3 hours to watch because we had to stop and rewind and continue to laugh at the terrible acting attempts. First of all the family that arrives at the house moves in, eats dinner and falls asleep. When they wake up in the middle of the night they are WEARING THE SAME CLOTHES!!!!!!! not sure why no one notices this, but it definitely adds to comedy aspect of the movie.The daughter was supposed to be 7 years old or something but she was taller than the mother and looked like she was about 17 years old. And WTF happened to that woman who flew backwards into a tree after creating the magic dove soap circle. Or the trashbag baby car seat.The fathers side burns where awkward as hell and the mother sad to say was definitely the best actress in the movie which pretty much says it all.This movie was LOL funny and if it were in the comedy section I would give it a 10 out of 10.