Please save your money. -SPOILER WARNING-

Rating: 3/10 (29 March 2015)

I am no contemporary horror fan. Clearly this is the case. I say this because of all the smashing reviews this movie has received. I like many were excited at the premise that the trailer for this movie portrayed. So like hungry consumer monkeys we shelled out hours of our life earning the money to watch this movie as well as wasting the time to watch it. Now we will begin with the tale of how it most definitely sucked. For those of you with some image in your mind that this movie was in any way revolutionary are quite absurd. I say this because this movie begins with the same original recipe for teen horror movie trope. Attractive girl runs from yet unseen assailant and the camera pans drifting about the street centering said girl. It continues to follow all the said normal articles for what is considered a suspense horror and does so poorly. Basic jump scares and suspenseful music to make up for the lack of character development and much needed explanation for the world that these people were living in. Let us begin with the tale of the magic compact kindle. Friend number 2 whose name I cannot even remember even though seeing this movie last night(great character development)throughout the process of the movie read from a pink seashell compact. I'm sure the director was hoping that she somehow would breathe some sort of amazing performance from cryptic poetry she was reading that covered the inevitable destiny known as death. This like many other things fell short, but this is not what i truly have a problem with. In the setting the attire,hairstyles,and vehicles were very akin to the era of the 1970s. The televisions and radio announcers as well as the countless electronics thrown into the pool in that oh so anti climactic scene were all seemingly items from the 50s. Then we have out touch screen compact reading device that stands out like a sore thumb in the middle of all this period architecture and technology. Like the friggin phones attached to walls...in houses. This more than anything really bothered me about this movie. Because no real judgment could be made to as when these things occurred. The characters lacked development and were one dimensional throughout. I could go on for many many many many more paragraphs about how much this movie was exactly what horror does not need. Let me just save you the trouble of wasting more time reading this rant that something purely horrible spawned and tell you to please....save your money.