History Film / TheApparition

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''The Apparition'' is a 2012 horror film starring Creator/AshleyGreene, Creator/SebastianStan, Creator/LukePasqualino, and Creator/TomFelton.

It opens with a group of college students attempting to resume a parapsychology experiment from the 1970s, in which a deceased researcher was successfully contacted. After the experiment meets with seemingly disastrous results, the focus abruptly shifts to a young couple who soon begin to suspect that something is very wrong within their brand new home.

* ApocalypticLog: Patrick obsessively makes audio and video recordings of his struggles against the creature.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Moving to the desert and getting a new job and girlfriend does not keep the monster's attention away from [[spoiler:Ben]].
* ChekhovsGun: The [[spoiler: tent, twice]].

* HopeSpot: When Ben and Kelly reach Patrick's safe house. [[spoiler: Except the power starts to flicker, almost as soon as they're inside it, enabling the entity to enter as well.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: The entity at one point manifests as a StringyHairedGhostGirl a couple of times to freak out the protagonists even further.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Each of Patrick's attempts to dispell the creature come down to trying the same thing only with more power. Each time the entity just comes back stronger and more aggressive.

* ProductPlacement: Early in the film, the character go to a Costco-like shopping center, and later Kelly returns to it to try and hide.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: What the apparition entity manifests as to scare the protagonists.

* DarkWorld: The destination of the Apparition's victims is apparently [[spoiler:a washed-out, empty version of our own reality]].
* DownerEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler: Kelly trapped in the DarkWorld; friendless, but with the Apparition [[RightBehindMe right behind her]]]].
* EldritchAbomination: According to Patrick, this is what The Apparition actually is. And considering [[RealityWarper its power on the environment]] and the ways [[HumanoidAbomination it likes to manifest itself]], he may be most definitely right.
%%* FinalGirl: Kelly was nailing the door from the wrong side all along and simply wasn't allowed to see it until it was too late.]]

%%* ChekhovsGun: The [[spoiler: tent, twice]].

%%* MadScientist: Patrick.

%%* NothingIsScarier: ''The Apparition'' is actually kind of a misleading title.

* {{Goth}}: Ben has a Bauhaus T-shirt.

'''''The Apparition''''' is a 2012 horror film starring Creator/AshleyGreene, Creator/SebastianStan, Creator/LukePasqualino, and Creator/TomFelton. It opens with a group of college students attempting to resume a parapsychology experiment from the 1970s, in which a deceased researcher was successfully contacted. After the experiment meets with seemingly disastrous results, the focus abruptly shifts to a young couple who soon begin to suspect that something is very wrong within their brand new home.

* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler:The Apparition pulls this on Kelly, trapping her inside the room she has just nailed shut. However, it is also stated that the Apparition can confuse its victims about what is real so it is possible that Kelly was nailing the door from the wrong side all along and simply wasn't allowed to see it until it was too late.]]

* DarkWorld: The destination of the Apparition's victims is apparently a [[spoiler:washed-out, empty version of our own reality.]]
* DownerEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler: Kelly trapped in the aforementioned [[DarkWorld Dark World]]; friendless, but [[RightBehindMe not alone.]]]]
* EldritchAbomination: According to Patrick, this is what [[spoiler: the entity]] actually is. And considering [[RealityWarper its power on the environment]] and the ways [[HumanoidAbomination it likes]] [[MultiArmedAndDangerous to manifest itself]], he may be most definitely right.
%%* FinalGirl

%%* StringyHairedGhostGirl

'''''The Apparition''''' is a 2012 horror film starring Creator/AshleyGreene, Creator/SebastianStan, and Creator/TomFelton. It opens with a group of college students attempting to resume a parapsychology experiment from the 1970s, in which a deceased researcher was successfully contacted. After the experiment meets with seemingly disastrous results, the focus abruptly shifts to a young couple who soon begin to suspect that something is very wrong within their brand new home.

'''''The Apparition''''' is a 2012 horror film starring Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, and Tom Felton. It opens with a group of college students attempting to resume a parapsychology experiment from the 1970s, in which a deceased researcher was successfully contacted. After the experiment meets with seemingly disastrous results, the focus abruptly shifts to a young couple who soon begin to suspect that something is very wrong within their brand new home.
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* FinalGirl

* StringyHairedGhostGirl

* WrongGenreSavvy: Patrick's scientific theories would probably work brilliantly if he were in the [[spoiler: GhostStory]] he thinks he is. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he doesn't realize until far too late that it is actually a [[spoiler: CosmicHorrorStory.]]

* EldritchAbomination: According to Patrick, this is what [[spoiler: the entity]] actually is. And considering [[RealityWarper it's power on the environment]] and the ways [[HumanoidAbomination it likes]] [[MultiArmedAndDangerous to manifest itself]], he may be most definitely right.

* EldritchAbomination: According to Patrick, this is what [[spoiler: the entity]] actually is.

* HeyItsThatGuy: You'd think [[Film/HarryPotter Draco Malfoy]] and Alice Cullen from {{Twilight}} would be better at coping with the supernatural.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: the tent.]]
** [[spoiler: Twice.]]

* DarkWorld: [[spoiler: The destination of the Apparition's victims is apparently a washed-out, empty version of our own reality.]]
* [[spoiler: DownerEnding:]] [[spoiler: The film ends with Kelly trapped in the aforementioned [[DarkWorld Dark World]]; friendless, but [[RightBehindMe not alone.]]]]
* [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination:]] [[spoiler: According to Patrick, this is what the entity actually is.]]
* [[spoiler: FinalGirl]]

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler: Literally. Both the trailer and the movie poster depict the very last shot of the film.]]

* ChekovsGun: [[spoiler: the tent.]]