The Apparition

The ideal flick for midnight. It’s short and striking, just the way horror movies should be. However, I felt really sorry that despite the atmosphere it created, it ended in disappointment. The ending was really useless. In fact, it was as if the creators cut off the movie at its best moment. And that’s a lot to say, because from what I’ve seen it wasn’t a cheap movie either. A budget of 17 million dollars for such a small-scale film is quite a lot. (18/05/2014)

I’ve watched it twice. The first time, I wanted to go to sleep after ten minutes and I didn’t care at all how it would end, which clearly tells how much The Apparition managed to engage me. A derivative ghost story without ideas and scary scenes, and quite stupid sometimes (scaring with a dry cactus), plus the utter incompetence of the creators (how to explain what is going in? With a voiceover, of course). This is just a futile effort and a waste of the money the studio invested in it – it would have been better spent on a party for the big shots, at least it would have made them happy; this film can’t make anyone happy. (16/11/2012)

The Apparition is not a revelation. It’s a completely classic contemporary horror production that hopes a few favorite stars will save it, but they can't when everything else is done poorly. This is a film that hopes its scary scenes alone will ensure the audience feels scared, but without necessary buildup and scene construction, it simply can't end well. This is just a case of everything being thrown together without rhyme or reason. (09/04/2014)