Could have been the best horror movie of ALL TIME

Rating: 7/10 (30 October 2011)

First off, not up to the hype. It's not as scary as people make it, no matter what you read. I was terrified by it before I actually saw it. Then I was like: really ?!...ok cool, I'm sleepin good tonight.
But then, the pros and cons must be distinguished: Pros: * Incredible intro/theme. Very subtle, the perfect intro/credits ever for a horror. * Good use of the music with the momentum of the scenes. * Good ideas for the scare scenes. * A killer plot that had tremendous potential. * Excellent vision for the "Further". The perfect nightmare.
Cons: * Borrowed or simply copy/pasted a lot from many movies before it. * Acting, direction at times, script and just feel overall too Hollywood, too unreal, too polished - actors are playing mere pre-written characters as opposed to real human beings who react to a horrible reality. * Could have been much scarier given the pieces they had to their puzzle. * Some aspects in bad taste (long haired fiend...) * A bit too unrealistic towards the end.
All in all, just like Inception this film touches on subjects of astronomical potential and importance - the realms of dream, reality-meets-fiction, eternity and infinity - and fails like the latter to deliver a complete, whole picture of its monumental failed ambition.
Because of the great and the good in this movie, and because of the efforts on the artistic side to make this more than just a polished, soulless Hollywood creation: I'll be generous and give it a 8/10, though a 7 could be in the discussion. But there's no way this movie earns less, and it just doesn't have what it takes to get to 9 or 10.
Fully developed and less Hollywood, less commercial - this has the potential to have been the best horror movie of all time...too bad.