AAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
What were they thinking? 
The original was, well, original. A corny, entertaining, parody of a ghost story. There was a whimsical feeling of genuine threat alongside the comedy. 
This is dreadful. It has nothing. And when it starts to have something in fleeting moments, this is stamped on. It's so badly put together. It clunks as though 5 different directors had done bits and tried to stitch them together.

And those are its good points!

It's odd that something can be released in that state. I know that most film execs don't give a stuff about anything but money, but in this case it feels as though it was only viewed before release by people who were so involved with working on it that they couldn't see the wood for the trees. A bit of editing would have helped. Maybe it was rushed out so fast there wasn't enough to edit.

And bizarrely good reviews...