What the...

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2001)

Wow. I thought this movie was going to be another lame teen horror flick in the vein of I Know What You Did, Urban Legend, the Scream sequels, etc.. but I finally decided to give it a try. It started out great and set up a very cool idea for a horror flick. Immediately after establishing the fact that this was (hopefully) going to be a good movie, though, it dropped suddenly and became another stupid teen horror movie, much like the aforementioned films (only without the killer with the scary mask and scary knife). It seems almost like some Hollywood studio exec said "Make this more of a teen flick, with tons of idiotic dialogue and over-explanations." I'm hoping that was the case with this film, because If the writers wrote this solidly then I feel very sorry for them. Whoever was responsible for the casting, though, did a great job. In particular, Daniel Roebuck as one of the FBI agents and Tony Todd as the mortician were a pleasure to see. I also have to give them credit for having a group of well-known young actors/actresses play roles that I couldn't picture them playing (and actually doing a good job at it). A well-made film, marred by terrible writing. I'm losing faith in the horror genre.