Works if you are easily impressed

Rating: 3/10 (13 December 2004)

This movie just doesn't deliver whether you like blood and gore, a real "home run" plot or scary cinematography.
The whole way through this movie I kept wondering when they had discussions about keeping the level of actual bloodiness down to get an R-rating. This was a recurring thought because the flick was set up by the script to deliver extreme violence yet instead it came up short at every new scene demanding such an end.
Then there was the actual visual look of the movie which became more and more annoying with its choppiness that seemed like a desperate attempt to achieve something original without any spark of an idea behind it.
The makers of this production suffered from an acute case of gutlessness. They never made a really bold decision, instead going for these cheap tricks with the camera and lighting and manipulative setups that just never achieve any power.
The villain of this attempt at scary film which also lacked any dark humor- is ultimately unbelievable in the extreme as a victim of a brain tumor, and the film itself looks like a movie directed by Hitchcock just a few weeks away from death by the same illness.
While the film makers may have wanted Hitchcock and Dr. Lecter on screen what they made is something that looks like a student film funded by a millionaire daddy.