Fabulous, and actually kinda scary. . .

Rating: 8/10 (28 March 2000)

This movie worried me like nothin since Candyman, which also featured the gloriously creepy Tony Todd. After seeing this, I took the back roads and avoided the highway all the way home from the theater so there would be fewer semi trucks to skid and fulfil death's plan for me. While some of the effects were laughable (the head, etc), I thought that the film took an interesting premise and developed it almost enough. It fell a little short sometimes with the logistics of how Alex was enlightened on the plane, but the scene with the mortician/Death character (the aforementioned Tony Todd) was, I felt, quite necessary and well done. Acting was fairly shaky, especially on the female end, but the beauty of this kind of movie is that it can be absolutely enjoyable without being technically great, or even that good. Despite the flaws in its formal aspects, I give it an 8.5/10.