Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.
Provides the familiar cheap thrills but with a salsa tang.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
3 Jan 2014
rotten:
This fifth in the series further diminishes the promise of the 2007 original, replacing mystery and suspense with predictability and misogyny.
– Peter Keough,
Boston Globe,
6 Jan 2014
rotten:
The leads are appealing but the best scares will be familiar to anyone who has seen the previous films - or, for that matter, the trailer.
– Clark Collis,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan 2014
rotten:
The plot is a confusing, derivative mishmash of half-baked supernatural cliches, and the total absence of characterization makes it hard to care what happens.
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out New York,
8 Jan 2014
rotten:
There's no getting past the nonsense formality of taking that camera everywhere.