Brilliant horror-thriller, kept me gripped until the end!

Rating: Null/10 (21 June 2003)

I didn't know that much about this film before I saw it, but i knew that it supposedly contained some great twists so I went to see it and hoped for the best.
The film i saw wasn't the best, (my favourite film is drive, but that's another story), but it was up near the best of them in my opinion. I have to say that I hadn't seen a film that gripped me to the screen so compulsively for its whole running time for quite a long time.
The film starts with a load of strangers ending up at a Motel in a storm after a pretty nasty accident. Each charachter seems to hold their own stereotype, the hooker, the strange geeky man, the boy who hasn't talked since his father died etc and this may force people into thinking that the film is merely standard horror fare. But that's the point, that's what the director wants you to think, and this makes the ending all the more twisted. Everything comes together in the end, which of course, i won't ruin for you as the journey until the nerve-jangling climax puts you through more twists and turns that a rollercoaster.
Don't at any point in the film (until the end) try to convince yourself that you know exactly what is going on, because you won't, and you won't until the end.
Overall, a ramming good snog of a film and i really recommend it to those who like their films nasty, creepy and a bit more on the intellectual side of things, a real first class movie.
Oh and you get to see the hooker in her bra, which is nice.