Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

rcliett My biggest word for this is ridiculous. I don't want to give anything away about this movie because some people might enjoy this sort of thing however the whole thing is rather ludicrous. I just can't say anything else about it or it would spoil the whole thing for others.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Kevin Costner movie in order I come to The New Daughter from 2009Plot In A Paragraph: John (Kevin Costner) is a writer; whose wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to a house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa. She starts sleepwalking clutching a straw doll no one's seen before. She visits the mound often, staying late, coming home covered with mud. As Louisa's behaviour becomes more bizarre, John learns thehouse has a history and seeks out answers.A routine and cliché horror flick, KC does his solid reliable job as always and the supporting cast are all OK too. I'm not really a fan of horror movies though, as I find them routine and predictable. It has a few unresolved plot issues and pacing problems at times too. Although I was amused to see a Freddie Mercury poster on his daughters bedroom wall. KC remains as watchable as always, but these are not two of his better hours.

southernutahlady This was a ridiculous movie and I was so disappointed that an excellent actor like Kevin Costner would waste his time which wasted our time. What parent would allow his children to stay in an unsafe place, ignore scratches on his daughter's back, leave them to talk with a woman when there is danger, and in the end leave his terrified little boy to blow himself up with his daughter. There was no reason to be in the tunnel. Who in their right mind would get out of a vehicle when there is a howling monster in front of them? And then the movie ended like someone pulled the plug and we sat there going what??? There was no point to this movie at all.

bowmanblue Ever since The Ring hit the mainstream market with its American incarnation there have been numerous imitations where something spooky happens to someone's child/children and they have to save the youngster from a killer video tape/cell phone/computer game. In Kevin Costner's case, the killer object menacing his teenage daughter is a mound of earth. That does give you some idea of just how scary the rest of the film is.Perhaps the first problem The New Daughter suffers from is that the 'daughter' in question is just so annoying. She never stops moaning and griping (as most teenagers do I guess), only, because she's come into contact with a mound of earth, she's doing it more than most. About the only good thing she does is 'take out' the most clichéd bully-girl in cinematic history.The first half of the film is just setting the audience up with various apparently-innocent events which will all have some darker significance later on. Kevin does his best to understand his daughter, doing what all horror films' central protagonists do, i.e. look on the internet and phone a local expert who just so happens to live really close and be into just the right paranormal phenomenon that you require help with.The second half things get a little more intense. Not much, just a little. As in all other horror films, the police and other supporting characters are there just to be killed.There is nothing notably wrong with The New Daughter, but there's nothing particular right about it either. We've seen it all before and done better (i.e. spookier arty cut scenes in The Ring). If you've never seen a horror film before (then where have you been?) you may just like it. But I just couldn't get Lisa Simpson's words out of my head when she encountered Kevin Costner in an episode of The Simpsons. She simply said, "Poor Mr Costner - he tries so hard."http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/