What a huge disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (4 June 2006)

I'd definitely rather clean the cat box than watch this again and I'd like 1/2 of my rental fee back because I had to fast forward through about that much of the film.
If this had been made in black and white by a film noir director, without all the so very red gore, it would have made a crackerjack 1 1/2 hour film. The setup is very clever and so is the end. The problem with this film is that it lingers so lovingly on all the human-on-human violence that it loses its plot and its atmosphere.
This is not just a female reaction--my male partner was so horrified, bored and disgusted that he was angry with me for insisting on fast-forwarding to the end.
Not my definition of a "horror" movie and definitely not escapism. More like living a cat box horror movie and being forced to watch really gross stuff. One feels that one's mind has been violated somehow by a good plot and its perfectly unnecessarily gory execution.