An average haunted house flick, right up until the "great revelation" which has about 50 logic holes, which is when the film turns to crap.
Why didn't the ghost of the murdered infant/woman get revenge on her killer? Jessabelle's adoptive father was in the house all along, yet he was never attacked by the ghost. Why would he get killed after so many years? WHY would Jessabelle's arrival start off the hauntings? She had nothing to do with anything. She isn't even related to anyone there. She is merely "baby substitute" for the murdered girl.
Why didn't Moses's black relatives take revenge on her father for killing him and the baby? They showed a remarkable propensity toward violence when they beat up an innocent man who was trying to solve the riddle. Why didn't they at least report him to the police? Why didn't they call the cops instead of burying the infant? Why does this movie only harass and "punish" the innocent, allowing the wicked ones to walk free?
This dumb film wants to actually have us believe that the killer of an infant i.e. her father gets away scot-free: 1) from the police, 2) from the baby's black relatives, 3) from the ghosts of those he killed or ruined. None of these people/ghosts get him, kill him, or at least arrest him or report him. What's their motive for not reporting any of the murders? A guy kills an infant savagely, replaces it with another baby, then kills a black man, and he gets away with it all despite so many people knowing about it. Sorry, but this isn't set in 1890 or in the Bronze Age, so none of this rings true at all.
Furthermore, how the hell did the couple adopt an infant that quickly? Adoption is a process that takes months. You don't just go into an adoption agency and find an easy "replacement" for your murdered child. It's not Wal-Mart. Who write this rubbish? Again, this isn't 1890 nor the Cro-Magnon age, so I'm not buying any of this nonsense.
Why didn't the ghost take over Jessabelle's body straight away upon her arrival? Why wait? Why would the ghosts of Moses, the blonde loony and their killed baby all blame Jessabelle for the mayhem? I've seen some idiotic ghosts in my time, but these ghosts are imbeciles, nothing they do (or fail to do) makes any sense. You can't just have zero logic in ghost behaviour, under the excuse that "oh well, ghosts move in mysterious ways". Every good movie about a haunting has some kind of a usable motive, ghosts don't simply kill randomly.
The killer didn't notice that his wife was filming him killing the infant? That is dumb.
It's a dumb movie, with a horribly stupid resolution that may be surprising, but only because none of it makes any sense whatsoever. The ideal horror flick for people easily scared, for people who might not be sticklers for logic, and for people who want huge plot-twists regardless how stupid they are.
Why didn't the ghost of the murdered infant/woman get revenge on her killer? Jessabelle's adoptive father was in the house all along, yet he was never attacked by the ghost. Why would he get killed after so many years? WHY would Jessabelle's arrival start off the hauntings? She had nothing to do with anything. She isn't even related to anyone there. She is merely "baby substitute" for the murdered girl.
Why didn't Moses's black relatives take revenge on her father for killing him and the baby? They showed a remarkable propensity toward violence when they beat up an innocent man who was trying to solve the riddle. Why didn't they at least report him to the police? Why didn't they call the cops instead of burying the infant? Why does this movie only harass and "punish" the innocent, allowing the wicked ones to walk free?
This dumb film wants to actually have us believe that the killer of an infant i.e. her father gets away scot-free: 1) from the police, 2) from the baby's black relatives, 3) from the ghosts of those he killed or ruined. None of these people/ghosts get him, kill him, or at least arrest him or report him. What's their motive for not reporting any of the murders? A guy kills an infant savagely, replaces it with another baby, then kills a black man, and he gets away with it all despite so many people knowing about it. Sorry, but this isn't set in 1890 or in the Bronze Age, so none of this rings true at all.
Furthermore, how the hell did the couple adopt an infant that quickly? Adoption is a process that takes months. You don't just go into an adoption agency and find an easy "replacement" for your murdered child. It's not Wal-Mart. Who write this rubbish? Again, this isn't 1890 nor the Cro-Magnon age, so I'm not buying any of this nonsense.
Why didn't the ghost take over Jessabelle's body straight away upon her arrival? Why wait? Why would the ghosts of Moses, the blonde loony and their killed baby all blame Jessabelle for the mayhem? I've seen some idiotic ghosts in my time, but these ghosts are imbeciles, nothing they do (or fail to do) makes any sense. You can't just have zero logic in ghost behaviour, under the excuse that "oh well, ghosts move in mysterious ways". Every good movie about a haunting has some kind of a usable motive, ghosts don't simply kill randomly.
The killer didn't notice that his wife was filming him killing the infant? That is dumb.
It's a dumb movie, with a horribly stupid resolution that may be surprising, but only because none of it makes any sense whatsoever. The ideal horror flick for people easily scared, for people who might not be sticklers for logic, and for people who want huge plot-twists regardless how stupid they are.