VividSimon Simply Perfect

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

NateWatchesCoolMovies The New Daughter is an odd one, a creepy Kevin Costner vehicle that almost seems like an M. Night Shyamalan idea that didn't quite take flight from the drawing board. Nevertheless it's a good enough time at the movies, and there's genuinely skin crawling moments too. Costner, in solemn mode, plays a father who relocates to South Carolina with his kids. As if an obligatory adjustment period isn't bad enough, soon his teenage daughter (Pan's Labyrinth's Ivana Baquero, skillful but an odd choice to play all American white boy Kevin's daughter) starts acting strange, and I mean Stranger than your usual garden variety brand of pubescent restlessness. There's something out there in those rural woods, something that's drawing the girl's attention and slowly start possessing her. Father Costner is creeped out and desperate, seeking help from anyone he can, including a professor of far flung urban legend mythology (Noah Taylor), the creepy previous owner of his new home (screen legend James Gammon in his last living film role) and his kid's foxy local schoolteacher (Samantha Mathis). It's a spooky enough little flick, albeit cobbled together from several other better movies. There's creature effects later on that score some points, and atmospheric cinematography, but ultimately it's average, middle ground material.

bjwoodyear A well made movie. Very watchable until I lost patience and had to fast forward the last 20 minutes in 30 second chunks. Costner underplaying it to an insulting degree as usual. His almost zero reaction to everything going on around him was annoying and he leaves his children alone just a little too often! Great directing, make-up and special effects.This could have been a great movie with a different lead actor (maybe a deadpan lookalike of Buster Keaton!)

Leofwine_draca Another year, another film about a single father and a his offspring moving to a new home and becoming involved in some creepy antics typically involving the daughter. The last one I saw like this was Robert De Niro's HIDE AND SEEK but they seem to make them all the time, and THE NEW DAUGHTER is no different from all the rest. I expected more from director Luiso Berdejo, the man who wrote REC.The story is of the usual content: Kevin Costner and his annoying kids move to a new house with a haunted reputation. Some interest arises from an ancient burial mound in his back garden, but the plot is so ambiguous that the viewer never really gets to enjoy that side of it. Instead this mediocre film just sort of burbles along aimlessly. The cast are okay but going through the motions here. Costner has his usual likable everyman charm but his character is a dour bore and the kids earn no sympathy from the viewer.Samantha Mathis and Noah Taylor play in support as a teacher and professor respectively, but are wasted in minor parts, particularly the latter. The film works hard to remain realistic throughout with mere hints of shadows and the like but blows it with the silly, typically over the top climax. The abrupt ending is a kick in the teeth. Overall this is another disappointment from Hollywood.

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.