Thanks, Gunn

Rating: 10/10 (20 March 2004)

I just saw this movie tonight, and in my opinion, is the best horror movie I have seen in 10 years. The acting from all involved seemed appropriate. The timing in the movie was excellent. It started out with some tense moments in a hospital then moved straight to a pretty intense, fast moving introduction until they got to the mall. Then the action kept up almost to the point where I would have been ready for it to stop, but then it started focusing more on the interactions of a very diverse crowd in a very stressful situation. This went on long enough until I was ready to be scared again, and they pulled it off. Admittedly you have to let yourself be scared by this movie, but if you are like me, you watch these movies just hoping that there will be more than one time that you at least jump a little, and they pulled that off for me. There was also some nice humor scattered throughout, some truly disturbing moments, just an experience overall. Anyway, this might not be as good as the original (I finally found a place to rent it, will watch that this week), but considering that they did not rely soley on special effects and gore to scare you (in fact, they didnt try at all, there was good use of moments where you expect something but you just arent entirely sure what). I'd say this is the best attempt at a horror movie since the 70's. Somebody here really had a grasp at what horror is really about and I'm glad.