“You Should Have Left” (** out of four) was a pallid horror thriller about a screenwriter (Kevin Bacon) and his wife (a gaunt Amanda Seyfried) and daughter (Avery Tiiu Essex) who travel to a home in the remote countryside where strange occurrences begin happening that unearth dark secrets that divide them apart and threaten their family unity and in turn their lives. Elegantly and atmospherically shot by Angus Hudson and does have some creepy moments towards the end but is otherwise an all-too-obvious and logy imitation of “The Shining.” Directed by David Koepp but this is no match for his last collaboration with Bacon “Stir Of Echoes”; this movie just stirs echoes of past horror classics.

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