THE APPARITION

RYAN: This new horror film stars Ashley Greene, Alice Cullen from the Twilight movies and Tom Felton, Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potters. 

KIM: …and that’s about how exciting it is.

RYAN: I like the casting.  They’re good actors but this is one of the biggest wastes of time.

KIM: I thoroughly agree.  Ashley and Tom are great.  And there’s also Sebastian Stan who was in the movie The Covenant.

RYAN: I love that movie!  He’s really cute.

KIM: He’s adorable but they didn’t bring their best to this movie.  I think the script was cheesy.

RYAN: The acting was okay.  Ad yes it was the script that was just so poor that they didn’t have anything to work with.  This material is lame.

KIM: It was almost laughable at times.

RYAN: The strangest thing about this movie is that it’s only an hour and fifteen minutes and it still managed to seem long, slow and boring. 

KIM: There wasn’t a lot to see.  It lingered on certain shots of doors and horizons.

RYAN: Because if they didn’t do that, the movie would have only been thirty minutes long.

KIM: [laughs’ Exactly! I think they added forty-five minutes just on the lingering.  It didn’t really hold your attention.  It’s not scary.  Nothing made us scream or jump.

RYAN: No terrifying images and the story was so unrealistic and absurd that it didn’t work.  For a supernatural haunting story to work, it has to at least be suspenseful and creepy; draw you into the story and make you feel threatened.  This movie didn’t at all.

KIM: I feel like there almost wasn’t a story.

RYAN: It was about a seance gone wrong.

KIM: Yeah and whatever they conjured, it didn’t make sense.  We’re left with too many questions.

RYAN: It’s a total cop out on behalf of the filmmakers – like seeing an alien movie where they never show you the aliens.  There’s no reveal in this film.  It’s majorly disappointing.

KIM: The concept wasn’t fleshed out enough.

RYAN: I did like seeing Tom with dark hair and glasses.  That was funky.  And Ashley’s a hot little number.

KIM: I was trying not to drool over her.

RYAN: Some of the art direction was cool but what was supposed to be frightening imagery actually looked more artistic, like Salvador Dali paintings.

— BOTTOM LINE —

KIM: This was not scary.  It was silly and not worth the time or money to see.  I wouldn’t even recommend this as a dollar rental from Redbox. 

RYAN: Aside from the actors and some cool art direction, there’s nothing to see here.  All I ask of a scary movie is to do just that… scare me.  Even if it’s just manipulative with music and editing to build suspense.  This movie fails.