Seance

It's really silly, but I think that's it's saving grace.

A genre treat.

With leaden performances and puzzling camerawork, it's hard to feel in tune with the movie's frights outside of the occasional jump scare.

When the film does choose a genre, it occasionally sticks the landing, but "Seance" ultimately feels jumbled.

"Seance" proves a disappointingly boilerplate retro slasher that's pedestrian on every level from concept to execution.

Mostly, Seance is a paint-by-numbers horror tale, and the paint is running dry.

Not a riff on slasher, nor an homage, but a straight up repetition, complete with all the banalities therein.

A future slumber-party classic.

Even bad horror can be entertaining in its own way. But Seance manages to be not just bad. It commits the cardinal sin of the horror genre: it's boring.

Nothing quite gave Seance the spooky atmosphere it cried out for.