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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 23 Aug 2012

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

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 23 Aug 2012

The shortest flick this summer is also one of the worst, a ghastly ghost story that fails to deliver its generic goods on any level…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 23 Aug 2012

It's just more of the same old, same old haunted house style material we've seen countless times before, and usually far better than what's…

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By Sara Maria Vizcarrondo (199) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 23 Aug 2012

The soulless-ness of their empty plot of track homes and super-store existence invokes both Poltergeist and Employee of the Month…

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By John Defore (1,351) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 23 Aug 2012

Lincoln's script has no knack for the pacing of cinematic exorcisms, and the truncated climax he does offer is short on action and scares…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 23 Aug 2012

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

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 Aug 2012

It's a potentially creepy setting that would give an innovative director a chance to do a lot with a little…

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By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Aug 2012

This enervating muddle of paranormal nonsense manages the difficult feat of seeming frenzied and lethargic all at once, while building toward…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Aug 2012

The Apparition turns out to be nothing more than a series of feebly constructed Boo! scenes tacked together to achieve (barely) feature length…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Aug 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…

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By Heather Wixson (312) for Dread Central (388) on 22 Aug 2012

The movie isn't scary and plays it way too safe, making for an underwhelming experience for this horror fan…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 22 Aug 2012

The good news is that it only clocks in at a mere 74 minutes before the end credits kick in…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 22 Aug 2012

The trailer for The Apparition contained more story than the picture it was promoting…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 22 Aug 2012

It's so terrible that there might actually be more tension in the numbing first act of monotonous chores than there is in anything that follows…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 22 Aug 2012

I don't know how you defeat ghosts, but smacking them with a bat would not be my first guess…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 22 Aug 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…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Aug 2012

A ghastly 'Paranormal Activity'-inspired ghost story with Lovecraftian overtones...[and] the worst ending since 'The Devil Inside…

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