I give credit to James Wan and Leigh Whannel for making a good modern horror movie

Rating: 9/10 (13 February 2008)

I've said this before and I'm saying it right now, there are not very many horror movies which I consider good. "The Ring", "The Grudge" "Darkness Falls" are examples of how pathetic the horror genre has become. This movie is different. There's no cheesy immortal killer, no huge name actors who you KNOW are gonna make it out as the 'Big Hero'. This movie has no bias toward any character, each one can be killed at any time, can only do so much to survive this, and only knows so much. Writer Leigh Whannel was good as the paranoid, crazy, pessimistic Adam. Cary Elwes wasn't half bad as the observant, intelligent Dr. Lawrence Gordon. And of course my favorite actor in this film was Danny Glover. He was very well cast as the determined Detective Tapp. Over all, I recommend this movie to anyone with a taste for good horror, by that I Don't mean The Ring, The Grudge, 2003 version of TCM, etc. This movie is not for the weak minded/stomached.