Thrilling with a slow start

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2008)

It looks like Manhattan is the source of all evil and unspeakable things, on screen and off. I wonder how this feels when you actually live there? This movie starts pretty slowly and you find your mind really wandering during the warm up section but all goes to plan when their world is ripped apart by a god awful beast. It was refreshing to see some "real" camera work where the monster itself was shown in fleeting glimpses and for the most part they had very little idea what was going on. It would have been nice to get a little more at the end, but actually nice to be left to wonder how the future panned out and what that thing actually was. The spider like creatures were a masterful piece of horror, who wouldn't shudder and recoil at the site of Labrador sized beauties sticking their fangs in. After the slow start you spend the next 90 minutes on the edge of your seat totally engrossed and grossed out. Great!