This kid brother to The Amityville Horror also tries to stake a claim to veracity with its marketing-oriented insistence on being not just “a” true story, but “the” true story of an East Coast haunting, but even a minute amount of research will quickly reveal that most of it has been fabricated entirely. That doesn’t mean the movie doesn’t have some good creepy tensions, especially in its mixing of the supernatural and realistic family trauma. It’s just too bad that it keeps escalating until we have spewing ectoplasm, spilling bodies, and fiery infernos, all of which would be fine it were treated with Dario Argento-style outlandishness rather than the grim seriousness that makes it all too easy to mock, true or not. (Hollywood Jewel 16, Waco, TX)