Can a PG-13 horror movie be good?  

This is a movie about how moving and middle children are scary.  The victims are adults, but the movie is written for medicated middle schoolers in the way it doesn’t trust you to pay attention.  

In an early sequence, the camera lingers on the baby monitor. Like, this baby monitor should consider putting up No Loitering signs the way this camera was lingering on it. A few cuts later, oh man guess what something scary happens with the baby monitor, it like gets possessed, though that’s not really how the hauntings work in this movie which has its own desperately detailed system of how the scary things happen which I assume means now there are a lot of internet message boards filling up with Insidious fanfic and Sticky Posts at the top that explain how you’d better get The Further right or be perma-banned and if you have any questions check the wiki or PM the mods. Just in case you missed how it’s scary to move house, they move to yet another house in the middle of the movie.

A boss demon is set up but they don’t really deal with him, opting for a twist where the marginal dad character steals the show and it’s pretty sloppy how they have to resort to another flashback to explain the last thing. This movie ends mid-flashback.  A lot of the compelling tension early in the movie is based around the peril of the baby and brother, but they get shipped off before the finale.

My favorite part was the two Geek Squad assistants, because they made me feel like I was watching a different movie, with good dialogue.

I liked this one well enough. It was decently scary for all its faults, and I fell asleep with the lights on.

3 of 5.