Not too sure about this one . . .

Rating: 7/10 (12 January 2006)

This is a film that kept me watching, but I never really identified with the protagonists or their dilemma. Although I found myself squirming a number of times, I didn't find myself racked with tension or fear; and, unfortunately, the visual displays of torture were a bit overdone. Suggestion works the imagination much more than graphic-ness. I can't put my finger on it, but I just wasn't put in the characters' place, as a good horror movie will do. The feel of the film is "nice," in the good, gruesome way of good horror films--dark and foreboding. But there is something too familiar about the movie's plot: It tends toward the formulaic and never goes beyond the Puritan shadow cast by Hollywood, which makes it, I'm afraid, unmemorable.