km_staple It wasn't completely awful. The worst scene of all was the flashback with the priest and family around the table. Some of the worst acting and dialogue I've ever heard. It had some good moments so I don't feel like I wasted the whole time.

annlaabs This was an interesting idea undone by too many subplots.

middleearthmusic Within the first few minutes you'll realise you this going to be terrible. The acting is on par with a school play, every line is overdone, the cast are so aware of the camera and seem to be playing to it, I think one of them was trying to do a Jack Nicholson shining copy even the nasally voice. The script was terrible as well. Each line is unoriginal, just badly written junk. I continued watching however because I find bad movies amusing. Then comes the story. Some bizarre nonsense about the Codex Vaticanus (A bible manuscript held in the Vatican) basically the script writer just cooked up something to sound clever but made himself sound like an idiot in the process. Anyway, an excuse to bring in all the demons and special FX which were okay but not scary at all. By this time I was fast forwarding through the rest of the movie to key parts. I refuse to waste my time on this garbage and it is a shame people are conned into watching it because of faked IMDb ratings. This movie is a 3/10 at best.

the_wolf_imdb There is one huge sin in horror movies: You should never ever reveal too much nor too little. The best part of the horror movie experience is trying to understand what is going on. Give too little explanation and you will end up with something really annoying as no one could understand the movie. Give too much and the movie just stops being scary at all.The best way is to reveal the background only in small pieces and maybe to build a misleading theory that falls apart at the end. The best mixture could end up like Sinister: You will see the point at the end but it is too late for the hero. And even after ending of the movie you will have no clue how the end could be prevented. It leaves chills and unpleasant uncertainty.This movie fails in the second way: It simply explains too much too soon and becomes silly. In the middle of the movie you will know pretty much everything - what is going on, what is the cause, how to resolve everything. Everything is explained by the bunch of conveniently placed videotapes in excruciating and really unnecessary detail.And exactly at that point the movie just stops to be scary at all. It is not that terrible, it is just an opportunity wasted by the author of the script who seems not to be familiar with basics of horror. It could be so much much better - all it needed was to reveal less background, use less cheap scares and focus more on the process of discovering what is really going on.It could be as good as The Autopsy of Jane Doe. It failed because authors have no clue about story writing and they decided to focus on primitive and cheap Matrix style scares instead. They could save 80% of special effects budget, they could make a lot simpler story AND make the movie way much better.In that sense it is quite a fail. The movie is not that horrible, it is just an opportunity horribly wasted.