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The Apparition
PG13 (SINGAPORE)
2012
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Positive Reviews
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1.2
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1.5
But sometimes suggestions just hang in the air pointing nowhere and virtually nothing happening feels like just that.
Av Club
1.3
As for the screenplay, Lincolns writing is nothing but a stale rehash of haunted house cliches and little innovation.
We Got This Covered
1.5
Nods to better films (Poltergeist, Flatliners) and borderline better films (the Paranormal Activity franchise and its crapshoot offspring) do little t ..
Austin Chronicle
1.5
Giannolis script delicately subverts the journalistic mystery thriller by making Jacques the dog ever more likely to catch the car, without ever askin ..
Austin Chronicle
0.0
Like its titular haunt, the film is a tease that irritates more than it does anything else.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
While it doesnt center on a single house thats haunted and doesnt tell its story via a found footage conceit, The Apparition nevertheless tracks close ..
Screen Daily
1.5
The photography itself isnt particularly impressive, but whats on the screen looks great.
Collider
1.5
If enough people truly believe in something supernatural, itll come to fruition.
IGN
1.0
The good news is that it only clocks in at a mere 74 minutes before the end credits kick in. The bad news is that it makes viewers work for every sing ..
E Film Critic
1.5
There is no worse thing for a horror movie to do.Either the ludicrous pseudoscience needs to be on full display the entire time with machine building ..
Cinema Blend
0.5
The Apparition is a rare example of filmmaking failure that is so complete, it will exacerbate its audience in nearly every way possible.
Screen Rant
2.5
The Apparition is not a great or even good haunted house movie, but it does have the advantage of a memorable setting.
Village Voice
1.3
Wafts out of the ether like the ghosts of bad movies past, the very picture of the cinemas dog days of August.
Rogers Movie Nation
1.2
However, maybe a brief stay in multiplexes is a positive thing, allowing those with heavenly B movie patience to sit down and decode the bungled filmm ..
Blu Ray
3.0
This horror movie from Warner Bros. (2012) is nothing special, but its nice to see a modest genre entertainment buoyed by a major studios resources.
Chicago Reader
0.6
The Apparition is an incompetent exercise trying to generate scares from an exhausted premise.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
Unfortunately, the believing equals death bit never really plays out in this lame spooky wannabe that has one positive selling point.
Screen It
1.0
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
3.1
But for casual viewers desiring a few scares, some suspense and a sustained sense of dread and malevolence, you could do worse.
News Day
1.9
The second thing is a true inspiration on the part of writer director Todd Lincoln.The Apparition is the first Great Recession horror movie.
Boston
1.2
With more telegraphed scares than Samuel Morse on Halloween, it still might give you a restless night, but only because you fell asleep in the theater ..
Ew
0.5
Todd Lincoln tries for a weirdly menacing tone but its uneven, even when amped by Tomandandys techno score.
Susang Ranger
2.0
What actually happens in the movie seems to be left over from some kind of rigorous cutting session. Its less of an arc than a flatline.
Common Sense Media
0.6
Its a worthy subject, but the film lacks any daring expressive touches that might have made it, at the very least, noteworthy.
Slant Magazine
0.5
This thoroughly inept horror film really makes one question the ways of Hollywood.
Reeling Reviews
1.5
Lincolns script has no knack for the pacing of cinematic exorcisms, and the truncated climax he does offer is short on action and scares.
Hollywood Reporter
1.0
There is something haunting The Apparition, stalking its dark corners and lying in wait to make itself seen.
Los Angeles Times
2.5
Theres a lot of bellyaching by horror fans about the PG 13 ification of horror films, and that can be troublesome.
7M Pictures
1.3
Devoid of scares and energy, the picture is all bumps in the night and has nothing to set it apart from its other forgettable post Japanese horror con ..
Movies Tv Guide
1.5
THE APPARITION is such a minimalist haunted house story that it takes on a strangeness that makes you wonder if they intended more than reaches the sc ..
Maki At The Movies
0.0
Pretty much every other sceneOK, that one tooreeks of the sort of nonsense that easily turns a horror movie into an accidental comedy.
Red Eye Chicago
2.5
Lights flicker; soap and cactuses blacken; claw marks appear; icky molds gather like hornet nests.
Ny Times
1.9
May run just 82 minutes (and that includes drawn out final credits), but the pictures brevity cant hide what a toothless waste of potential it all is.
Dustin Put Man
0.0
Its a pretty great concept once you believe in something, it can kill you.Its reminiscent of A Nightmare on Elm Street; one of those primal, inescapab ..
Big Picture Big Sound
1.3
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Sltrib
0.0
It is poorly acted, horrendously written, choppily edited, and lugubriously paced at even just 74 minutes before credits.
Hollywood Chicago
2.5
If after all this youre expecting a Big Scary Payoff, youll be disappointed.
Bitly
2.0
Apparition is unfocused and overdeveloped. bogged down with heavy exposition, lack of rules, and a lackluster performance from Sebastian Stan.
Bloody Disgusting
0.5
Its simply one of the worst horror movies Ive ever seen in my life; such a waste of time being in that theater. Its so wholly awful its almost an ache ..
Schmoes Know
1.5
But the film essentially drops this idea after introducing it, as it does most of the elements it introduces.
Movie Line
0.0
An utterly pointless and inept mashup of Paranormal Activity and Final Destinationwith a bit of Ringu thrown in for bad measureThe Apparition does hav ..
Ear Of Newt
1.0
Dull, dreary, pointless and bad, sporting shock scenes that dont shock, a grisly premise that doesnt make sense, and a meager cast of mostly uninteres ..
Movie City News
0.5
From start to finish, the movie basks in horrible horror clichs that will leave viewers straining to find something original in the proceedings.
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