Draco Malfoy wears a scarf and summons ghosts in The Apparition (2012), a weak, disjointed horror film from Todd Lincoln.
Your hands….taste…terrible
A group of college kids (including Patrick, played by aforementioned Harry Potter alum Tom Felton, Lydia-Julianna Guill, some guy named Greg who never really resurfaces and Ben, played by Sebastian Stan.) perform some sort of ‘college experiment’ and manage to use some laughable science to summon an apparition. This results in Lydia’s immediate death by……well, being sucked into a wall.
Cut to a few years later, Ben muddles through a job he hates and tries to live a normal life with his girlfriend Kelly, played by Ashley Greene, whose overuse of bedroom eyes becomes tiresome in about ten minutes. Ben and Kelly go about their mundane video game playing, Costco shopping lives until odd things begin happening in their house.
Strange burn marks appear on counters, doors open of their own accord. Dogs randomly die. Nests of mold appear in corners. Ben stabs the mold nest with a broom (yes, really) while Kelly whimpers and glares and offers nothing useful.
Sooner or later the truth comes out that Ben summoned up some ghostly business that ate his ex girlfriend. Kelly’s pissed, Ben’s a moron and Malfoy doesn’t exactly pull off youth with that forehead and receding hairline.
This movie is lame, it offers nothing memorable except maybe a few laughable moments that leave the audience thinking ‘really?! Come on’. The entire thing feels clunky and inorganic. The random images of ghost evidence we are given don’t seem to flow together at all. One minute were focused on a giant mold ball, the next the sheets are attacking the characters, the next, some very pathetic specter crawls out of a washing machine in grey body paint.
Poorly constructed and poorly edited, The Apparition is not going to last in your memory. The characters are unfathomably dumb, the music (yes, I’m complaining about the music) is distractingly overreaching and theatrical, and the story is barely even a story. It’s weak and nonsensical, filled with laughable psuedo science and painfully obvious shots.
Not worth the time. No redeeming qualities, except maybe Ashley Greene in her underwear, if you’re into that.
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