This is an old fashioned ghost-y story which does not hold together very well. It is really too scary a movie for small children, but the protagonist is one. Nor does it capture the innocence of youth. More or less, Mom and Dad leave the kids home alone for the weekend with a big scary hole in the back yard. Some mildly creepy things happen. Stephen Dorf was pretty good as the precocious demon fighter. Made in the mid-80's it is visually and aurally a period piece. It is refreshingly relatively free of gore. Nightmares and the devil worship "associated" with heavy metal music are the horror idioms of choice. Sex and slashing are minimized.
