ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE

Rating: 1/10 (6 February 2000)

Saw this a while ago in a movie theater, in the hope I would be treated to a truly terrifying horror film. My expectations were high....
Oh dear. I actually forgot to be scared, it was replaced with disbelief, and finally total boredom. In the so-called terrifying ending scenes I yawned and tried not to fall asleep. Reason? This movie used every horror-film cliche known to human-kind!
WARNING! A TINY SPOILER OR TWO HAS BEEN LOCATED ON THE HORIZON! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE!!
This whole flick is based loosely on something to do with worm hole travel (to Hell, apparently) and is really a haunted house story set on a space ship. A group of scientists try to find out why their brand-spanking-new space ship goes belly-up and vanishes off the face of the universe then reappears some 5-or-20 years later minus its crew. It has brought back a bad evil ghost instead....
While far from original, it does boast some nice computer effects. This is then completely ruined by silliness of the juvenile kind. We have space ship interiors that look like torture chambers, people floating around in space with no space suits on and not imploding (golly gee!), mundane acting by the cast, and the most awful cliches e.g. blood spewing down corridors - oh, puh-lease!!! And the ending was particularly cliched.
A few gruesome, bloody scenes are thrown in for lets-shock-the-audience-before-they-fall-asleep measure and some pointless running around in dark corridors from a evil space ship mind. The plot was wafer thin and riddled with holes (cheesy ones!)and I got the impression the cast were uninterested and bored with their roles. The audience I sat with seemed stunned by the entire horrible thing....
MY CONCLUSION: watch it on video! With a barf bucket next to your armchair!