Fantastic!

Brilliant and touching

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The film opens with kind of a creepy, promising narrative given by the actress (Jackie Weaver) who played the daughter in All in the Family whose haggard appearance is perhaps the most frightening aspect of the movie. Here's how it pans out: main 18-year-old dude goes for a good old fashioned stroll through the snowy woods and finds a girl in the freezing cold with no jacket crying about something she won't reveal. Next night, she ends up in the bed of our main guy—she sneaks on in there, by the way, and he wakes up to find her there, and is just like yeah, sure, no problem, and promises to protect her. Two jump scares and a cheap CGI character aren't enough to hold this movie up, and by the time you get to the end, nobody's motivations make any sense, living or dead, and are inconsistent to say the least. STOP now if you want to be surprised, because here comes the spoiler, and while there are several plot holes and unanswered questions, this is the one that irks me: if that girl from the woods is the daughter of Jackie Weaver's now-dead husband and his mistress, the fact that the girl says her mother died obviously holds up. The fact that she has a drunk dad who beats her...that's clearly not her birth dad, right, because the ghost comes for the birth dad too, in the movie's cold open? And we don't get to see the dad's face when the kid comes to check on the girl for a reason, as it's very obviously blurred, making you think that it will somehow become relevant. It doesn't. Did someone decide "meh, that's good enough" when they went back and realized they had to cover their tracks when it came to one of the most important plot elements of the film—which, seriously, leads to nothing—the fact that her dad beats her? Also, um, for what reason does this ghost want to kill the 'biological' dad in the beginning? Weren't they in love? What did he do wrong? I'm gonna give her the benefit of the doubt and guess that it's because he sat there like an idiot watching his wife about to slit this woman's throat without making a move to stop her.Then again, I sat there like an idiot watching all 87 minutes of this nonsense, so I guess that makes us even. Oh, and the ghost lets one person live: THE WOMAN WHO KILLED HER. REALLY? YOU'RE KILLING INNOCENT CHILDREN BUT SHE'S GOOD TO GO? Also, way to go framing your daughter for murder and getting her sent to jail, ghost lady! You are totally crushing it when it comes to getting that vengeance of yours on everyone except the one person you should be concerned with.IFC Midnight is really starting to drop the ball.

I agree with some of the reviewers > stre3xHCCH and > gavin6942 they both had good points, The movie start really interesting in terms of narrative and plot, mysterious enough and creepy, but end in mediocrity.All starts when a family the Morello's moves in a classic beautiful house for a new beginning, full of hope with a great business prospective, but that short lived as all ends in tragedy, when their young children all teens and their father die of violent death in the house (and out)..Anyway time has passed and a new family whose the house is sold to, moves in and they also have three teen children, one of them Evan, the quiet one, meets this young girl in the woods one night going for a walk, named Sam, whose we don't really know or learn anything about her, except she has a violent father and until the end, we get just a glimpse, and not enough to satisfy the building up of the beginning of the story, imho. When Evan and Sam found this radio and mess about, then things begin to manifest,and not in a good way, which would usually mean that the fun begins, but I felt like it was just rushed and not give the time to explore why and what had really happened in the house to all those people. I thought when both go to see Mrs Morello to know more, that the best was to come, but unfortunately that was not the case,the rest of the actors were not exploited enough to add intrigue, suspense, for more possibilities to produce a more entertaining and satisfying story. Even Mrs Morello who practically got away with murder (God knows for how long, we only figure that out towards the end) when we understand who Sam really is, could have been done more with her, and her family as a back story, but they failed. This movie had a lot of potential,and very good actors, and it really frustrates me, to see people behind the camera to blow it, why i gave 4stars. What a shame, all i can say...

The Asher family buys an isolated manor where a tragedy happened with the previous owners, the Morello family, when the father and his three children died. The only survivor, the pediatrician Janet Morello (Jacki Weaver), sells the house to Alan Asher (Brian Wimmer) and his wife Emily (Ione Skye), and they move with their children, the teenagers Evan (Harrison Gilbertson) and Sara (Danielle Chuchran) and the girl Anita (Ella Harris). The shy Evan meets the teenager Sam (Liana Liberato), who is abused by her father, and they start to see each other. Sam finds an old radio- like apparatus used to communicate with the dead in the attic and they decide to use it. Soon they learn that they have unleashed an evil force that is haunting them but Evan's parents do not believe in ghosts. "Haunt" is a weak horror movie of haunted house where the only thing new is the apparatus that is a radio to communicate with the dead. The screenplay is boring and gives the sensation that something is missing to be a good story. Watching this movie is a waste of time even in a rainy and cold Saturday afternoon. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "A Face do Mal" ("The Face of the Evil")

For me the opening part of the movie was very decent ,there one decent creepy moments , near the start but as the movies goes onI was so bored by it , it never got me back into it , when those scare scenes , were so bad, I actually thought they were funny.I thing seeing the ghost so early on and far to many times , that the creepy factor away, Far too boring and far to scarce less and a very predicable endingThe acting was really good , the egoist effects were not at all, I kind of find the ghost a bit cute lol , i am kidding I am going to give 4/10