Unbelievable!

Rating: 1/10 (20 April 2011)

What a load of rubbish! Having been led to believe the film was a thriller with a ballet background I couldn't believe the third-rate Hammer movie it turned out to be. Sex and gore - what a bore! The plot in this movie is almost non-existent and the characters sketched very poorly. The rehearsal room scenes gave no real indication of the blood, sweat and tears involved in producing a professional ballet - it takes more than a few shots of bloody toes and dancers breaking in their ballet shoes. Would a ballet company allow a dancer to have a dirty great tattoo plastered across her back? I don't think so. And one gets so tired of seeing daft girls wandering about places in the dark frightening themselves to death. Why an actress won an Oscar for spending most of the movie gazing vacantly at the camera with a half-open open mouth beats me. Save your money.