Hmmm… very mixed on this horror movie. On the one hand, it’s a rather dull series of setups and spook moments… nothing you haven’t seen before and all set in a bitchy CW girls’ school. On the other hand, I really like the main character (she’s abrasive and doesn’t put up with the mean girls’ games) and the ending – not the reveal but the resolution – is pretty good. But… too much of the movie is drab and unoriginal and just not scary.

So Séance is about a girls’ academy where one of the girls falls out a window one night after a fake séance. Her replacement (played by Suki Waterhouse) isn’t impressed by the mean girls or their reindeer games. But then something does start to haunt them and the body count starts to rise.

One of my beefs with this film is that it seems to confuse darkness with atmosphere. There are numerous sequences and shots that are simply just too dark to see anything clearly. And this is on my big screen at home so I’m not beholden to weak projector bulbs at the theater. It’s annoying, it’s distracting, it’s no fun and I just want someone to turn the damn lights on.

Otherwise, like I said, much of the time-wasting spook show moments are just mundane, repetitive, and unoriginal. I did like the ending but felt the explanation or solution to the haunting mystery to be pretty whatever. Like… sure… if you say so, Mr. Screenwriter. Could have been that or a bunny vampire that drains carrots for all it really mattered. But since the lead character is so strong, Suki Waterhouse manages to ensure a few extra points on the score.

Score: 68