Director: Todd Lincoln
Writer: Todd Lincoln
Stars: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan and Tom Felton | See full cast and crew
Once You Believe You Die...And If You Don't Believe You Won't Die For 82 Minutes In The Movie Theater.
A couple are haunted by a supernatural presence that was unleashed during a college experiment. He has not let his girlfriend know of his past involvement in the controversial parapsychology research nor what drove him to leave the research group.
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 force. -- (C) Warner Bros. 
Watch out for spiders Kelly says as Ben enters the crawl space under the house to find out what is going on under the kitchen floor. The linolium has cracked and been pushed up by some sort of mold or something has grown in the spot where the neighbor's dog came in earlier, stopped, stared at a spot on the wall and then just dropped dead.
When a film says it's a thriller or scary...it dang well better be or it's going to get slammed by the critics. This film has received nothing but bad, tepid at best, reviews.
How stupid is this? The couple are too afraid to sleep in the house because of all the scary, threatening stuff going on inside so they retreat to the safety of a tent pitched on the patio in the back yard. He hears noises so he leaves her sleeping in the tent and goes off to investigate. While he is gone the security cameras break free of their brackets and snake their way into the tent...wooo...so scary.
A huckster in the Warner Bros. marketing department came up with the tagline "Once you believe, you die." he should either be fired or given a raise. It is an interesting ploy in the trailer but is really a bit of 'bait and switch' since the premise isn't really used in the plot. 
This is a poor attempt at a 'scary movie'. There are a couple of cheep gotcha moments but that's about it. The Apparition is illogical and pointless. The film sat on the shelf at Warner Bros. for over a year apparently waiting for a slow opening weekend when it could be sprung upon an unsuspecting public and it would have minimal competition.
When paranormal activity starts in the house where the young couple lives one might get the hope that perhaps this thing could work out to be a little spooky but it soon devolves into illogical stupidity like you expect in your common garden variety 'dead teenager movie'. By about the 60 minuet mark the wheels really fall off of this train wreck. 
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