The Apparition
A couple is haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment. Desperate, they turn to a paranormal researcher, but even with his aid, it may already be too late to save themselves from the terrifying presence.
16 August 1966, Houston, Texas, USA
13 August 1982, Constanta, Romania
1 June 1972, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
21 April 1965, San Jose, California, USA
21 February 1987, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
22 September 1987, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
22 September 1949, Auburn, New York, USA
19 February 1990, Peterborough, England, UK
4 July 1970, Orange, California, USA
7 July 1987, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
July 27, 2014
None of this matters at all because the main characters are completely unlikable, and the momentum is consistently ruined by poor decision-making.
August 29, 2012
The entity is a ghostly presence amid an even ghostlier absence. This is truly distressed real estate.
August 26, 2012
Might give you a restless night, but only because you fell asleep in the theater.
July 27, 2014
It's frightening to think that a major studio like Warner Brothers would not only release a film this bad into theaters nationwide, but that it would even green light it in the first place.
July 27, 2014
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.
August 31, 2012
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.
August 28, 2012
Something lacking either body heat or visceral suspense.
July 27, 2014
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.
June 30, 2013
From start to finish, the movie basks in horrible horror clichés that will leave viewers straining to find something original in the proceedings.
August 26, 2012
Lights flicker; soap and cactuses blacken; claw marks appear; icky molds gather like hornet nests.
July 27, 2014
Dull, dreary, pointless and bad, sporting shock scenes that don't shock, a grisly premise that doesn't make sense, and a meager cast of mostly uninterested-looking Hollywood lookers.
August 26, 2012
For casual viewers desiring a few scares, some suspense and a sustained sense of dread and malevolence, you could do worse.
