"The Apparition" Review

"The Apparition" begins with a couple who is haunted by an entity that is conjured during a college experiment. The college experiment goes wrong and one of the people involved goes missing. This movie stars Ashley Greene as the slightly naive, but supportive girlfriend named Kelly who's boyfriend Ben (played by Sebastian Stan) was involved in the original experiment. He had never told her until things went from bad to worse. His friend Patrick (played by Tom Felton), comes into the picture as the proprietor of the experiment and tries to help as much as he can since he is also haunted by this entity.

Now, I am a huge horror movie fan. Especially when it comes to ghosts, and from the trailer I was expecting it to be a very good movie, but I changed my mind halfway through. The movie was slow and predictable, along with somewhat cheesy writing and (even though I do love this woman as an actress) Ashley Greene's acting was almost as bad as the movie itself. I found myself extremely bored even at the movie's "scariest" parts.

When you watch the trailer you expect an excellent example of an excellently written horror movie, but all of the best parts were in the trailer which left nothing else to the imagination. My boy friend even said the best part of the movie was Ashley Greene in a neglige, and to be honest, I would have to agree with him. Sebastian Stan's acting was much better, and I'll admit I am a huge fan from when he starred in "The Covenant." Tom Felton's acting was also on the same level, but I have to admit I liked him since he co-starred in the Harry Potter films.

There were some things about this movie I liked, but that was few and far between. And to avoid spoilers I won't go into any detail about them. Really though, if you want a terrifying movie that will have you jumping, screaming, and sitting on the edge of your seat this is not the movie for you. To be completely honest, I was yawning through the whole thing, and walked out very disappointed.