This horror movie from Warner Bros. is nothing special, but it's nice to see a modest genre entertainment buoyed by a major studio's resources.

| Aug 31, 2012

When you look into this abyss, it yawns back at you.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 31, 2012

The whole ordeal only lasts 82 minutes, but that's still too long for a film with no ambition aside from lightening your wallet.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/5 | Aug 29, 2012

The entity is a ghostly presence amid an even ghostlier absence. This is truly distressed real estate.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 29, 2012

Something lacking either body heat or visceral suspense.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 28, 2012

For casual viewers desiring a few scares, some suspense and a sustained sense of dread and malevolence, you could do worse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2012

Lights flicker; soap and cactuses blacken; claw marks appear; icky molds gather like hornet nests.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 26, 2012

Might give you a restless night, but only because you fell asleep in the theater.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 26, 2012

The Apparition is not a great or even good haunted-house movie, but it does have the advantage of a memorable setting.

| Aug 26, 2012

The movie loses goodwill early on by killing an adorable dog, resulting in a lack of an identification point, since the canine has better intuition than the humans.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 24, 2012

Mild scares and a go-nowhere climax haunt this suburbs-set debut.

| Aug 24, 2012

If you listen closely enough while things go bump in the night during The Apparition, you might also hear the scraping of barrel bottoms.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2012

The story is a worthy one, but the film lacks any daring expressive touches that might have made it, at the very least, noteworthy.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 24, 2012

An incomprehensibly garbled, derivative attempt at a horror flick from first-time writer-director Todd Lincoln.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 24, 2012

It's a potentially creepy setting that would give an innovative director a chance to do a lot with a little. Unfortunately, Lincoln isn't one of those.

| Original Score: D | Aug 24, 2012

80 minutes of generic jump scares involving generic people who are largely to blame for their generic problems.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 24, 2012

At one point in the film, a cute neighbor dog wanders into the house, looks creepily into a corner of the laundry room, and dies. With the poor mutt's ridiculous death, we've lost the most likable character in the story.

| Original Score: 0.0/5.0 | Aug 23, 2012