overrated

Rating: Null/10 (25 April 2006)

this was a marginal 2 star pic...it does little to amuse and/or provoke any psychological suspense other than to visually shock. roth's direction is average...however, he failed to capture any momentum from his graphic subject matter...to sum up, this is a relatively new Hollywood movie category, rock-shock, - rock star mentality coupled w/ shock horror...and to be perfectly honest w/you, even the unrated version is not really scary...roth should remember what makes good horror is artistically exploiting a strong psychological factor...he had the factor in torture, but failed to make any progress in this or any genre...this movie has nothing on the vanishing (original) or exorcist (again, original) or any other champion of the horror/suspense genre...