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Fairly standard horror movie with a top-tier cast from A-list horror director James Wan. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are a selfless demon-hunting husband and wife team who occasionally give slide-presentations at the local university. Ron Livingston and (the always lovely) Lili Taylor are the hapless parents of five daughters who move into to a large house by the lake which happens to be haunted. Starts off with a genuinely creepy prelude that involves possessed dolls - a speciality of director James Wan - before descending into a routine haunted house tale. Wan’s camera slowly pans and then lingers to heighten the viewer’s feeling of unease, and there are several good scares. Unfortunately gets a little silly towards the end, climaxing in an exorcism performed with the power of positive thinking. Enjoyable, but falls short of James Wan’s last two attempts at supernatural horror, both of which were superior films. As with all good horror movies, based on “true events”. 3/5
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