The Apparition (2012)
Average Rating: 2.2/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 51
The Apparition fails to offer anything original, isn't particularly scary, and offers so little in the way of dramatic momentum that it's more likely to put you to sleep than thrill you.
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 8
The Apparition fails to offer anything original, isn't particularly scary, and offers so little in the way of dramatic momentum that it's more likely to put you to sleep than thrill you.
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When frightening events start to occur in their home, young couple Kelly (Ashley Greene) and Ben (Sebastian Stan) discover they are being haunted by a presence that was accidentally conjured during a university parapsychology experiment. The horrifying apparition feeds on their fear and torments them no matter where they try to run. Their last hope is an expert in the supernatural, Patrick (Tom Felton), but even with his help they may already be too late to save themselves from this terrifying
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Cast
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Ashley Greene
Kelly -
Sebastian Stan
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Tom Felton
Patrick -
Julianna Guill
Lydia -
Luke Pasqualino
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Rick Gomez
Mike -
Anna Clark
Maggie -
Tim Williams
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Marty Martulis
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All Critics (53) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (52) | DVD (2)
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.
Top CriticThe 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.
Lights flicker; soap and cactuses blacken; claw marks appear; icky molds gather like hornet nests.
Might give you a restless night, but only because you fell asleep in the theater.
This new supernatural thriller by first-time director Todd Lincoln has stinker written all over it. In indelible ink.
The apparition, because it's lame, spends a lot of its time tying clothes into knots, moving dressers, and opening doors.
When I finally get around to writing a textbook, this is going to be one of my primary examples of how not to make a horror movie.
Instead of a genuine story line, 'The Apparition' asks us to sit and wait for something to happen. And wait. And wait. (Blu-ray edition)
I like a good ghost story, but 'The Apparition' is nothing like a good ghost story. It's more like a Syfy Channel show where they try to scare people in a darkened room.
A thinly sketched paranormal thriller stripped almost bare of anything that might provide some color, complication or personality.
The Apparition is a rare example of filmmaking failure that is so complete, it will exacerbate its audience in nearly every way possible.
Every fo paux The Apparition commits stems from a general atmosphere lacking any vibrant heartbeat, creating characters and conflicts which are tragically birthed on life support.
Todd Lincoln, in his directorial debut, shows the restraint of a young Val Lewton. Things go bad oh-so-slowly ...
When you look into this abyss, it yawns back at you.
Plants wither and furniture is rearranged, as if the demon were an inconsiderate housesitter.
The whole ordeal only lasts 82 minutes, but that's still too long for a film with no ambition aside from lightening your wallet.
Doesn't offer anything new, let alone entertaining.
A run of the mill horror flick that gets worse and worse as it progresses
It's simply one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen in my life; such a waste of time being in that theater. It's so wholly awful it's almost an acheivement how bad it is.
Audience Reviews for The Apparition
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- Patrick: If we can pull this off, we'll prove that anything supernatural when people believe in them.
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- Maggie: Your house killed my dog.
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- Patrick: Just wait until my father hears about this Potter!
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- Patrick: It knows you're afraid.
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- Kelly: Well, what does it want from us?
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- Apparition - Dunkle Erscheinung (DE)
The whole idea for this film is silly and the few scares it has own their debt to other better films and especially J-horror masterpiece Pulse. There were moments when there was true sense of dread in the air and some scenes do have feel uneasiness in them, but most of the time this film seems to be in autopilot. Lincoln's approach is visually flat and in the final third when the suspense should be rising it all just gets kinda boring and duller than expected.
The Apparition also suffers from a weak screenplay. Basically this film just ends up being a story about a entity which does want to break into our world. That is the deepest we get with the story. We do learn that it has something to do with electricity and black fungus but that's about it. When the film reached it's weak conclusion i just felt confused and disappointed.
This film could have been turned out something so much better than it ended to be. Production values are mostly quite good but what do you need them for if the screenplay does not work at all. The Apparition has nothing new to offer for the fans of horro genre.