The Apparition

What a whole lot of nothing. Oh,brother, regrets. We have all had theatrical regrets; follow the gut, it normally doesn't let you down. It didn't here, either, but I took the chance anyway, and this is what it got me. Ever watched a movie that seemed to have footage and story missing? This is one movie that had a whole ending that seemed to indicate that more was intended but left on the cutting room floor. An entity (I honestly don't know what else to call it) is released by tech kids into proving the supernatural exists, the expensive technology at their disposal to hopefully succeed. A "rift" is opened by them, and those involved with the seance (or whatever it is) are *haunted* by *it*. Ashley Greene, a stunning beauty whose petite body is showcased in lingerie at one point in the movie, her beau a hunk for the chicks who happen to attend, is tormented in her new Phoenix suburban home because boyfriend was part of the paranormal group who opened the rift and let out the evil. That is as good as I can explain it. This movie is a mess and never is quite given much in the way of a satisfactory exposition. And the movie is over too soon to really invest in the scenario of paranormal activity plaguing our lead heroine and those who brought the terror literally inside her house. This is another of those movies where we see a female ghoul crawling out of a corner like one of those ghost girls from Ringu flicks. Mold and something hideous forming in a corner of her house, the evil entity shows itself in various forms, trying to enter *our world* out of  *the other side*. Energy can be used in reverse to possibly *send it back* to where it wishes to exit. Maybe, just maybe, the entity can be returned before it's too late. It was frustrating leaving the theater because I truly felt this movie left a lot to be desired absent from our eyes. It felt like skeletal remnants from what was to be a full-fledged fright flick never to form. We get small-scale "paranormal outbursts", a few *aftermaths* where Greene and boyfriend find their house in a state of disorder, and a new seance that is supposed to rescue them from future terror. From what I could gather, it is supposed to toy with victims' fears and cause them to doubt their senses. I guess I ultimately felt like this movie takes ideas from other films, throws them into a heap of jump scares, sound effects, and recognizable cliches, and never offers us anything especially compelling or worthy of real attention. You get Greene scared a lot, her beau concerned yet often in a state of denial, and special effects to try and tie us over despite anything remotely interesting behind them.