It's not what you expected...or is it?

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2002)

First of all,let's say what this film isn't.It's not as the box says,'in the tradition of Stir of Echoes or Final Destinaton',nor is it a 'Sixth Sense' knockoff[and BTW I knew THAT film's surprise ending 5 minutes in]!What it is actually is a story of how the 'moral majority' ended up corrupting the generation they thought they were saving!Why did the director set the film in 1988 instead of the present?My guess is that he heard the stories of the teens who were driven mad allegedly by heavy metal music and wanted to show the real causes of the insanity!It's no coincdence that all the so-called moralists are depicted as uptight extremists,dig deep and you'll see this is not a horror movie,but a political statement!The ending is sort of a Hollywood cop out,but the message is there if you look for it!