Short-changed...

Rating: Null/10 (15 June 2003)

A sometimes intriguing and commendable horror thriller that suffers by giving itself away far too easily. Subsequently the ending of the film backfires and undoes any of the good work that has gone before it. The cast are solid, the mood sombre, the rain pours, the thunder, the lightening - all effective enough given the genre. It's not that I'm unhappy about paying to see the film; it's just that, given my initial expectations for the film's treatment and discourse, I feel a wee bit short-changed.