Tame stuff, this.

Rating: 5/10 (12 June 2009)

Its an homage to Hammmer films. These type of horror films don't float my boat. Its well made enough, but not intellectually challenging and actually a bit hammy (intentionally, I know), and it has a 'b' movie feel to it (again, probably intentional). The scares in a film such as this are immediate and full -on, and often fantasised by the victims. There is no real sense of building anxiety, and the end was a real damp squib. Compares poorly with the claustrophobia of 'The Orphanage' or reality -shock -horror of 'Eden Lake', or the black comedy of 'The Chidren', for me the three great scary films of the past year... Also the story, while reasonably well told, is hardly original. Very overrated on the whole, though a passable night out.