The Apparition

This horror movie from Warner Bros. is nothing special, but it's nice to see a modest genre entertainment buoyed by a major studio's resources.

When you look into this abyss, it yawns back at you.

The whole ordeal only lasts 82 minutes, but that's still too long for a film with no ambition aside from lightening your wallet.

The entity is a ghostly presence amid an even ghostlier absence. This is truly distressed real estate.

Something lacking either body heat or visceral suspense.

For casual viewers desiring a few scares, some suspense and a sustained sense of dread and malevolence, you could do worse.

Overall, The Apparition is merely okay. It delivers a few shivers, but it's mostly a case of style over substance and scares.

Devoid of scares and energy, the picture is all bumps in the night and has nothing to set it apart from its other forgettable post-Japanese horror contemporaries.

In so many ways a missed opportunity, The Apparition looked like it could conjure a few scares in telling the story of a couple haunted by an entity they helped release, but this Ashley Greene vehicle fades into the void with a yawn.

None of this matters at all because the main characters are completely unlikable, and the momentum is consistently ruined by poor decision-making.