Cusack in a Horror Film

Rating: 7/10 (2 March 2008)

My daughter seen this one in the there when it first came out, and she told me that it was lame, too corny,, well i watched the previews, took her review with a grain of salt and bought it,, The first half of the movie is pretty good no doubt.. i think most people would agree,, now some of the stuff that happens in the second half of the movie, well we've seen before, and is quite over the top,, i think a lot in the movie was never fully explained, or left too much to the imagination. supposedly this was based on the writings of Stephen King,, well whoever the heck did the screenplay failed somewhere, cause i own many Stephen KIng books,, and his books are better than this,, and lot's of his adaptations have turned out better than this. Anyway back to the movie,, John Cusack had to carry this movie on his back practically the whole way,, yeah Samuel Jackson was in the movie,, but not nearly long enough,, he has a great screen presence and should have had more stuff to do in the movie, i think the movie had the right idea,, but got stuck in the trap of too many special effect and not enough actually scares,, not bad but could have been much better.