“The Parish” (*1/2 out of four) was an enervatingly routine and solemn horror melodrama about a recent widow (Angela DiMarco) who moves with her daughter (Sanae Loutsis) to a small town which is (what else?) filled with twisted sickos and psychopaths that turn both their lives upside down. Umpteenth movie about the dark-side-of-suburbia combined with the haunted house genre is stale and flat; this plays like a fizzled cocktail of “Blue Velvet”, “Twin Peaks”, and “The Amityville Horror” that is no longer fresh.

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