fantastic and awful oral projectiles

Rating: 8/10 (8 November 2009)

This film is so good in many ways that it seems churlish to be critical but I feel I have to mention a slight problem I have. This is so fast and furious that there is little time for us to become involved with Alison Lohman's character. There is all the annoying stuff at the Bank but somehow this doesn't make us particularly sympathetic. Then all mayhem breaks loose and incredibly jumpy and violent it is but for me, when there comes a pause and I'm catching my own breath, I'm not thinking of how she might escape. So then all the seeming silly fortune telling and séance stuff have no resonance for me. Mind you even if you are a little on the outside, this will still make you jump and even turn aside at some of the fantastic and awful oral projectiles. Very gooey, violent and relentless with some nice touches and a considerable nod to the much earlier b/w classic, Night of the Demon. If you enjoy violent thrashing horror you will love this, I just think it could have been even better. I've just realised that there is no sex in this movie, which I guess is a bit unusual. Possibly in the absence of character involvement, interrupted sex scenes might have done the job, not very original, I guess. And although there are obvious influences from other films, there are enough most original bits and bobs to make this well worth seeing.