An honour to the craft

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2008)

For some time now i've been searching for a horror/suspense/slasher/whatever type of film that would give me the same sort of spine tingling shudder that Stephen King's IT once gave me when i was 10 years old. Now some 13 years on i've found a film which made my spine shudder so much it almost locked. This could've been because of the setting i was watching it in, the early hours of the morning, in the dark... but it wasn't! Mikael Halfstrom eases you into this, making you question every frame suspiciously right from the start, then slowly easing your tension as it progresses until, like a roller-coaster reaching it's peak, all you've left to do, is clutch on for dear life until the end. This film is truly an honour to horror films past and present. It sets such an overpowering sense of impending terror in the most subtle of ways. If you truly love horror films, here's one to watch once... then build up the courage to watch it again. I rented this film but it will definitely be on my Christmas list this year and someone else's if they rub me up the wrong way. lol. I'm not going to describe any part of this film as you really have to watch it to appreciate it. Truly Harrowing, Truly Remarkable.