THIS is a lacklustre companion piece to Tom Elkins’s 2009 supernatural horror, which once again relies on spooky documentary footage. Large portions of the film take place in darkness, in part to conceal workmanlike special effects.

Emily Alyn Lind cries and whimpers up a storm – she is livelier than her older co-stars, who go through the motions. David Coggeshall’s script trades in hoary cliches. When the winsome child stares at her ramshackle home and asks, “Who lived here before?” and her mother cheerfully replies: “Nobody honey. That’s why the bank gave us such a good deal,” the stench of impending doom is overpowering. Mild scares, which take the form of shadowy figures moving unseen behind protagonists, are repetitive and unlikely to jolt viewers out of a soporific stupor.