I need a bath

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2007)

This movie is horrendous. Incredibly violent without even the coherence of Quentin Tarentino, I'm disgusted that I wasted money on it. The violence is graphic, gratuitous, and frequent. (The LA Times reviewer who claims that the violence gives us something to fear is completely off the mark. This isn't violence cleverly used to instill fear, it's just pushing buttons. Apparently Del Toro thinks that to create a real sense of fear you crush somebody's face with a beer bottle...a scene btw that is in the first 10 minutes of the movie, and fully rendered on camera...). To add insult to injury, the story is simplistic, unsophisticated, uninteresting, and ultimately boring. Sadly, if you've seen the trailer you've pretty much seen all the images worth seeing. The rest of the imagery is brutal and unnecessary. It's gonna take a lot of scrubbing and a lot of soap to get this crap off my brain...