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Title: Predictable
Review: Horror movies don't work for me if the characters are unlikeable - and that's the greatest flaw in this movie. The father is grumpy, stubborn and self-centred, the mother/step-mother is unbelievably acquiescent to his paranoid demands and the surly teen-age daughter is ... well, a surly teen-ager. Only the timid little boy in the family struck me as sympathtic.So immediately I don't feel overly concerned about the fate of the leads. Add to that a clumsy script, cheap looking effects and a plot you've seen many times before, and there's not much to recommend this one.I wonder if some of the the positive reviews for this are coming from fans of the currently popular television show "True Blood" which features the talented Stephen Moyer. He's a likeable actor and certainly brings something to the role, but it's not enough to make this a success.
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