The Apparition
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| Directed by | Todd Lincoln |
| Produced by | Alex Heineman Andrew Rona Joel Silver |
| Written by | Todd Lincoln |
| Starring |
Ashley Greene Sebastian Stan Tom Felton Julianna Guill |
| Music by | Tomandandy |
| Cinematography | Daniel Pearl |
| Edited by |
Jeff Betancourt Tom Elkins Harold Parker |
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82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $17 million |
| Box office | $9,627,492 |
The Apparition is a 2012 American supernatural horror film, written and directed by Todd Lincoln, making his directorial debut, and starring Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Julianna Guill and Rick Gomez. The plot follows three college students who, after the death of their friend, must battle a supernatural force they summoned themselves. The film was loosely inspired by the Philip experiment conducted in 1972. The film was a box office bomb and was cited by critics as one of the worst horror movies of 2012. It was also the last Warner Bros. Pictures horror film to be released under its own label before resorting to New Line Cinema to release all future horror movies made by Warner Bros.
On May 21, 1973, six people conduct The Charles Experiment, a parapsychological experiment, in which they stare at a drawing of a deceased man, Charles Reamer, hoping to summon his spirit. Years later, four college students, Patrick (Tom Felton), Lydia (Julianna Guill), Ben (Sebastian Stan) and Greg (Luke Pasqualino) attempt to recreate the Charles Experiment on a larger scale by using modern technology. During the experiment, something attacks the students and pulls Lydia into the wall.
Some time later, Ben and his girlfriend Kelly (Ashley Greene) are living together. One evening, they discover strange burn marks on their counters. Kelly finds both doors wide open, even though they had locked them. They decide to change the locks and install surveillance cameras. Later, Kelly finds a large amount of mold and spores on the laundry room floor while Ben finds even more in a crawlspace. Ben gets 36 "urgent" emails from Patrick that first inform him of a new attempt at the Charles Experiment, followed by a warning that "containment failed" and finally "you are in danger".
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