Michael Bay apparently loves making horror films. With the Chainsaw and Amityville remakes already under his producing belt, he has decided to branch out by getting David S. Goyer, the co-writer of "The Dark Knight", to pen and direct a horror film set in Chicago with a young starlet who looks a lot like a certain Bay actress (i.e. Megan Fox) in Odette Yustman. Then you bring in a poorly placed Gary Oldman (come on Gary really?) to add legitimacy, and you might have a "hit" on your hands.

Sadly, this is anything but.

Though the film goes for the same vibe as multiple Japanese counterparts, it really falls short. This is yet another horror film that tipped all of its creep out scenes in the trailer, leaving next to nothing for the actual film or the audience.

Casey is a hot college student, who has a good looking boy friend in Cam and a good looking best friend in Romy. Are we getting the Michael Bay vision yet? Might as well call the man the "Hitler of Cinema". Speaking of which, the film revolves heavily around the holocaust and Kabbalah. Yeah, the religion Madonna practices.

Casey was born, but her twin brother was not. She comes to find that her mother killed herself because she was overcome by the horror of a dybbuk, which is a spirit that wishes to live again, and the best vessel to do so is in the body of a twin. Why? I don't know, I don't make the fucking rules.

Casey tries to get information from an old lady named Sofi, a holocaust survivor who happens to know a thing or two about dybbuks and what it is like to be a twin. Casey then comes to realize that Sofi is in fact her grandmother. Tadda! Now we're cooking with gas.

A rabbi and a priest confront a barely legal woman. This isn't a setup to a joke, this is this film's climax. (No pun intended). The exorcism goes wrong - but hey, if you want to know more, watch it and waste your time, money, etc.

My question is, where is the father in all this? Okay, a better question is, WHAT THE FUCK IS COMMISSIONER GORDON DOING IN THIS? I did enjoy the Billy Walsh sighting (character from Entourage played by Rhys Coiro), but that's about it.

There are other hot ladies out there, so that really isn't a selling point that works either.

If there is one decent bit from the film, it comes from the amazing cinematography done by James Hawkinson. It may be time for him to get a real job.

The underlying theme is obvious. Abortions are bad. They cause eventual remorse, and given the films ending, make it even more obvious. Practice safe sex people.

If only the studios did the same.

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