A writer and his family move into a house where the prior occupants had been killed in the backyard. His plan is to write a book about the one person whose body wasn't found - the youngest girl. After finding some home movies in the attic, he finds that the footage is both of the family having a good time, followed by their murder. And it seems that there are a handful of other, similar videos.
I had been looking forward to this, since it seemed to be made in a similar way to Insidious, which I remember liking, and probably should revisit.
This is a good movie. It covers some dark material, and while much of it isn't explicit, it's obvious exactly what's happening. The methods of death are interesting, in that they're mostly unique, but just clever enough that it's clear that some thought went into it. Do we have a reason why the deaths are this fancy? Not really, but they do play out well, with some appropriate tension.
The main story, of the man discovering all of this, is good, but it doesn't reach the same heights reached by The Ring.
The other thing to watch out for with this movie is that it has a dark ending. In a certain way, it isn't satisfying, but it seemed like it was coming. How can you fight a Pagan god?
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