The Apparition (2012)

• Year: 2012
• Released: 24 Aug 2012
• Country: United States, Germany
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433822/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/The_Apparition
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-apparition
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Runtime: 82 min
• Writer: Todd Lincoln
• Director: Todd Lincoln
• Cast: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton
• Keywords: ghost, supernatural, experiment, disappearance, haunting,

	4.1/10
	18/100
	3% – Critics
	24% – Audience

The Apparition Storyline

On May 21, 1973, six people conduct The Charles Experiment, a para-psychological experiment, in which they stare at a drawing of a deceased man, Charles Reamer, hoping to summon his spirit. Years later, four college students, Patrick (Tom Felton), Lydia (Julianna Guill), Ben (Sebastian Stan) and Greg (Luke Pasqualino) attempt to recreate the Charles Experiment on a larger scale by using modern technology. During the experiment, something attacks the students and pulls Lydia into the wall. Some time later, Ben and his girlfriend Kelly (Ashley Greene) are living together. One evening, they discover strange burn marks on their counters. Kelly finds both doors wide open, even though they had locked them. They decide to change the locks and install surveillance cameras. Later, Kelly finds a large amount of mold and spores on the laundry room floor while Ben finds even more in a crawlspace. Ben gets 36 “urgent” emails from Patrick that first inform him of a new attempt at the Charles Experiment, followed by a warning that “containment failed” and finally “you are in danger”.

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The Apparition Movie Reviews

Average horror movie, but did you really expect anything else?

If you are true horror fan you have most likely come to terms with the fact that a “Great” horror film is fairly rare nowadays. For the most part in the horror world all we get is remakes, reboots, and sequels. When we finally do get a stand alone movie it is easy to say that it will most likely just be an average movie (especially with ghost movies).

I for one am far past expecting horror films to scare me, so I was not very disappointed when I realized “The Apparition” was not going to be scary. There isn’t really much scary stuff out there that hasn’t already been done in some other film, so it is incredibly hard to surprise audiences with good scares. Nothing in this movie is going to really catch you of guard or makes you shiver with fear, but you will most likely be entertained through out.

The story is interesting enough, I never really found myself bored or wanting the film to end. It is also very short, which is actually a good thing in this case, since if it would have gone on for much longer I probably would have started to get fairly bored.

I see people saying this film is terrible, boring, horrible, etc. I wouldn’t really call it any of those things. Its very average, and as long as you go into this expecting that you will not be letdown. It won’t be a film you will rush out and suggest to your friends, but it is still entertaining nonetheless and if you find yourself bored on a Friday night this will do a good job of occupying a little over an hour of your time.

5/10

Cookie-cutter ghost stuff

THE APPARITION is yet another CGI ghost film from the good ol’ US of A. Apparently, producers haven’t cottoned on yet that the general viewing public are sick and tired of these clichéd, poorly written products, so they keep on churning them out. This one’s the work of Dark Castle Entertainment, who first came to light with the remakes of HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and THIRTEEN GHOSTS at the turn of the century, but whose horror fare has steadily deteriorated ever since.

The plotting of THE APPARITION is entirely boring for the most part. It involves an unlikable and self-centred couple who discover their home is haunted by the traditional CGI spook. Cue lots of CGI-augmented scare scenes and not much sense. Ashley Greene and Sebastian Stan make for the most boring, vapid leading characters I’ve seen for a while in a film, and I was hoping they’d be bumped off by the vengeful spook early on in the proceedings. No such luck.

Where THE APPARITION has promise is in its filmed back story, taking place during the 1970s, where a team of university researchers manage to conjure up the spook. Tom Felton (13HRS) is on hand and as a whole this is very interesting stuff, based on documented records. If the whole film had been set in the 1970s and stayed with these characters (a la THE CONJURING) then it might have been more interesting, instead of the usual generic mess.

unoriginal unscary horror

In 1973, a group of paranormal psychologists called on their deceased colleague Charles Reamer. College students Patrick (Tom Felton), Lydia (Julianna Guill), Ben (Sebastian Stan) and Greg (Luke Pasqualino) try to recreate that experiment and something horrible results. Young couple Kelly (Ashley Greene) and Ben start to find strange occurrences in their suburban life. Ben is notified that the attempt to contain the entity has failed.

There is nothing new in this movie. That’s not a major problem by itself. There are countless horrors being made and the vast majority are derivative of earlier horrors. The problem in this one is that there isn’t anything scary. There aren’t even good jump scares. There’s nothing here. The use of suburbia and the box store derive no compelling style, tense isolation or creepy undertones. The movie sets up a few interesting visual ideas but none of it is scary.