Well some people say

Rating: 10/10 (16 November 2006)

that this is not a real horror film, because it has nothing in it that makes a real horror film, a real horror film. No gore, no slashing, no blood, no scare tactics. Then again I have to say, this is just graphic BS that doesn't really help develop and carry the story. That's why most horror films of such nature are naive and barely watchable.
There are only a few real horror stories out there. Now horror takes place at the same location that sex takes place: in your head. The question is what do you need to get stimulated? To get the ball rolling? The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby are by far the best horror films ever made. They stimulate you on the intellectual part of the spectrum and create an unmatchable horror experience within you, there where it hurts the most. Not the outside, the flesh and gore part, but the psyche, that part that never rests. The part that haunts you at night when you're all by yourself, all alone. Rosemary's Baby terrifies you long after you've watched the film. And it'll come back to haunt you again and in reality it will never disappear.
As opposed to gore stuff, which you forget within the next few days after watching such a film. Visual effects are very weak compared to psychological effects. In my opinion every film company should have a psycho-FX department, because that's where the story really lives, the horror, the nightmare, the possibility of such a horrible thing actually being real.
Save your pigs blood and use your imagination, just like when you think of some one else while you're having sex with your girlfriend. Isn't that the best? That same place is where the true horror takes place. And this film totally hit the bullseye!
(To finish the comparison: gory, graphical films are like masturbation. This one is like having sex -just because on this board I can't use the graphical term for it -. You decide whether you do it yourself or whether you do some one else...)