MOVIE REVIEW - A Haunted House

WOW, the new A Haunted House is pretty vile, so I'll keep this tidy.

AHH is the new parody movie of the Paranormal Activity series, and a few other supposedly scary movies.  There are some laughs, a few really big laughs and some other guilty pleasure laughs But that's all the fun and games this can muster.  Overall this is really not very funny.

What this movie does is take the PG-13 rated Paranormal series and turns it dramatically rated R.  This is flat out gross at times with things that no one really wants to see.  This is also very sexual in nature from the first frame to the last.  That of course is fine if that's the direction they want to go.  But this is amazingly inappropriate for kids.   And I saw a bunch of them there with their parents.   I saw kids as young as 8 there today and I was shocked the adults would sit through this with them eating popcorn.

If you are late teen or young adult, then this is fine as far as the appropriateness is concerned, but that's about the cut off.   The language all the way through this is laced with profanity, and worse.  And many of the things on screen seen, are envelope pushing to say the least.   This was actually a funny idea since the Paranormal movies have been so big, but it is a complete sell out to the lowest and I mean the lowest common denominator.

I also find little humor with watching and hearing the family dog get smashed by a car, but they seem to think this is funny.  Because it's right up front, first 5 minutes of the movie.   Gets to ball rolling I guess.  Then it goes on more to offend most groups of people rather than lampoon Paranormal effectively, and that's the real crime here. It doesn't even do what it set out to do.

A Haunted House.  Adults and young adults only. Don't let the kids talk you into it.  Not kid friendly.