Haunt 2014

Sara Stewart, New York Post: There is virtually nothing in Mac Carter's horror flick that deviates from the standard haunted house plot (or, in this case, plod). Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: I've had bigger scares from the windows at FAO Schwarz. Read more

Peter Labuza, Variety: A classical haunted-house thriller with perhaps little that's out of the ordinary for the genre, but occasionally inventive execution. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: By the time the final act unleashes its revelations and peril, "Haunt" has felt more like an exercise in formal spookiness than a full-blooded story of lingering malevolence. Read more

Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News: There's lots of mixed film stock and screeches on the soundtrack (as in the credits for "Seven"), but this gets annoying, as do the predictable twists. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Making a virtue of unoriginality, this clammy little ghost story, confidently directed by Mac Carter, conjures a whole heap of atmosphere from little more than clever camera angles and bedsheet apparitions. Read more

Zachary Wigon, Village Voice: The frustration here comes from the filmmakers' inability to present characters with dimension, so that we might come to identify with them and their fears. Read more