THE APPARITION | FAMILY MOVIE REVIEW INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND KIDS

"THE APPARITION"
(2012) (Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan) (PG-13)

QUICK TAKE:: Horror: A young couple must contend with an entity from another dimension that's after them.

PLOT:: Kelly (ASHLEY GREENE) and her boyfriend Ben (SEBASTIAN STAN) have just moved into her parents' investment home in a new community. She works in a veterinary office and he does audio-visual installation work, which comes in handy for the surveillance cameras they have installed on the place. But Ben has kept some of his former equipment secret from Kelly, including some designed for paranormal research. Years earlier, he, his girlfriend Lydia (JULIANNA GUILL) and team leader Patrick (TOM FELTON) tried to recreate -- high tech style -- an old experiment from the 1970s.
Both were designed to prove that ghost, entities and other such supernatural phenomenon actually exist, and that by focusing their mental energies, they'd be able to manifest such a being. It worked, Lydia was sucked into another dimension, and now Ben has tried to put that in his past. Unfortunately for him, Patrick has continued but intensified the experiment, thus opening a door between this and another dimension and letting some malevolent entity to pass through. And it's now set its sights on Ben and Kelly. As spooky things progressively escalate in the house, the young couple tries to figure out what to do.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?: They might if they're into supernatural films along the lines of "Paranormal Activity."

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13: For terror/frightening images and some sensuality.

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