Great little indie horror film

Rating: 7/10 (31 October 2009)

Saw this last night and it was a great little indie horror film, in the same tradition of other great, low-budget films like Blair Witch, Halloween, (Jack Ketchum's) The Girl Next Door, or the original Clerks. For the posters complaining about how the movie "looks cheap" and has amateur acting well...it was made for $15k in one week and features novice actors. If you go see this expecting the same level of acting and production values as in a typical, big budget Hollywood production, then yes, you may be disappointed.
For what it is, it is quite well-done and is a hell of a lot better than a lot of recent horror films to show up in theaters in a while. I think most of the people commenting on how bad this film is probably have not seen very many (if any) such small, low-cost, independent movies and can only compare it to the blockbusters - hence they are disappointed in the final product because they are used to the big effects and top-notch production values (and I'm not being an indie snob, I don't think a film is automatically great just because it is an "indie". So, yes, if you think that films like "Transformers", "G.I. Joe" and "Saw VI" are great films - you will probably not like this.
I saw a private screening of this and I will say I don't think I would have enjoyed this as much in a theater. In general, I tend to avoid theaters because I hate having idiots around me talking or playing on their cel phones during a movie. But this is a film that is tailor-made to watch at home, late at night, with all of the lights out.