After a boatload of sequels to the 1979 original, there was really no way of wringing more blood out of this horror franchise other than to start back at the beginning with a remake. Ryan Reynolds stifles the wisecracks as the husband and stepfather who succumbs to the demons of his new haunted mansion. The movie is jumpy enough until its overwrought, bloody climax, which seems a bit silly considering things could easily have been avoided simply by moving out.
