Slightly scary

Rating: 5/10 (18 April 2006)

After letting myself get swept up in a bit of the hype this movie has amassed, I must confess I was quite let down. The true horror just isn't there..The movie has a few tense moments perhaps, but it all feels a little too Hollywood to truly infect that dark disturbed part of your brain, despite the film's blatant attempt to be there..Kind of sad really, because this could have been such a terrifying premise; imagine the results if executed by a more mature, less clichéd, foreign (sadly!) filmmaker..Would have truly made us Yanks stay out of Europe..Instead we essentially get a traditional Hollywood Horror film with a bit of a unique setting..For all of it's dilapidated and gritty "realness" some of the scenes attempt to exemplify, the far fetched plot twists, and archetypal Hollywood heroism's water down an already merely amusing premise. A good scream for the younger set, I suppose.