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spoiler alert! Don't waste your time, horrible contrived acting, and the ending turns into a total bible thumper fest. The last 15 minutes or so, turned into a sermon. You can see the whole point of this cheaply made garbage, was to get in your face at the end, get a point across and try to shove something down your throat. So mad I just wasted hour of my life on this garbage. Horrendous acting and direction, a lot of it had the feeling of cheap porn acting. If there was was a negative rating scale, I'd give it that instead. And on top of it, they need to change the guidelines on this site to less than ten lines, because for a junk movie like this, coming up with ten lines is impossible!

I didn't expect this to be the best horror movie of the year when I started watching it, but it turned out to be far worse than I had ever thought possible. There wasn't even a cheap jump scare at any point to set the mood.

It started off all right. I thought the Laura Love's last moments before she put the gun to her head were done well, and I thought her friend's anguish at learning that she may have killed herself was rather moving; but it quickly went downhill from there.

Like, straight down.

When Lindsay Parker made her appearance, I checked to see if I was still watching the same movie, because it seemed so utterly removed from the preceding events. I decided after a quarter of an hour that Lindsay Parker was the actual protagonist of the movie. It was incomprehensible, because her paper-thin characterization was showing no signs of becoming other than paper-thin.

Lindsay's the new boss of a "Corporation" that people tie themselves into knots to avoid naming. Always "the Corporation", "our company", "We want to be number 1 in the industry". What company? What industry?

The acting and plot overall were so bad and unconvincing that this review would run into the length of the movie if I gave examples to illustrate my point. Let me list a few, at any rate:

1. The scene where Lindsay's boss says, "I couldn't help overhearing (that you were looking for a house)," and hooks Lindsay up with the realtor managing Laura's house. The house in question happens to satisfy exactly the criteria Lindsay was looking for, and she puts down a deposit on the same day and moves in.

2. Lindsay's running commentary to herself. Yes, the audience can see that the diary that she threw out twice has reappeared on her nightstand, and we can see that she's upset without the need for her to say these things out loud.

3. Her unwillingness to leave the house that she moved into just a couple of days ago when the hauntings begin in earnest.

4. When her secretary suggests she invite a few people over for a housewarming party and include the three gossipy break-room employees (unfunny comic relief) among her guests, Lindsay says, "Who cares if the ghost eats them?" Really?

5. Her walking up to the three break-room employees after the housewarming party (at which weird things did happen) and saying, in paraphrase, "If you thought THAT was bad, wait until you hear what happened next. There was blood on the wall..." She hardly knew them. That's now how you start off a conversation with your coworkers.

6. She was willing to accept that her house was haunted after the first draught of cold air passed her, but heaped scorn on the suggestion that she hire a psychic to check the place out. Right, because THAT'S crazy.

7. The fact that, despite being a protagonist, we learn LITERALLY NOTHING more about her over the course of the movie than we knew when she made her first appearance. Nothing about her past, no love interest, nothing.

8. And, of course, the ending, where she accepts Jesus into her heart, destroys the spirit, and moves her "company" up to Number 1 in "the industry" - all in one fell swoop.

Paper-thin plot, paper-thin characters, more loose ends than you can count.

If I could give this movie a 0, I would.