Take one part Poltergeist, one part The Exorcist, one part Amityville Horror and one part Terms of Endearment, mix 'em all together -- real vigorously now -- and you get this blasé horror cocktail that has one or two good scares but mostly is a way to lay waste to time you never really wanted back anyway. A few creepy moments here and there, and a cheap scare or two (what's that at the window?!), and gobs of color-free, gloomy doomy atmosphere fill out this tale of a cancer-stricken boy whose family moves into a former funeral home where bad things once happened. Guess what? The boy starts seeing dead people. And they ain't happy. Rated PG-13. 92 minutes (feels like 9,200). Area theaters. TWO STARS (Randy Shulman)
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Take one part Poltergeist, one part The Exorcist, one part Amityville Horror and one part Terms of Endearment, mix 'em all together -- real vigorously now -- and you get this blasé horror cocktail that has one or two good scares but mostly is a way to lay waste to time you never really wanted back anyway. A few creepy moments here and there, and a cheap scare or two (what's that at the window?!), and gobs of color-free, gloomy doomy atmosphere fill out this tale of a cancer-stricken boy whose family moves into a former funeral home where bad things once happened. Guess what? The boy starts seeing dead people. And they ain't happy. Rated PG-13. 92 minutes (feels like 9,200). Area theaters. TWO STARS (Randy Shulman)
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