A Movie for Psychological Thrills and Abject Horror

Rating: 8/10 (3 August 2005)

Watching the movie is a guilty pleasure like coming upon a car wreck, you can't turn away! It has the horror, blood and gore aspect without being cheesy. It does borrow from early slasher films with a touch here and there of the morality play (do a bad deed get punished) but even that has some unexpected twists. There was more fun in just enjoying the emotional acting than to spend the energy to identify the culprit. The mix of more well known actors like Danny Glover and Monica Potter playing secondary roles and relative unknowns in lead roles was refreshing. Any movie where I catch myself talking out loud to it and exclaiming random expletives got the reaction from my psyche I look for in a film. Worth watching and talking to others to see if you both came to the same conclusions regarding the ending. If you watch late at night be prepared to stay up after for an hour or so to clear your mind or if you enjoy nightmares go directly to sleep, we all have choices. The mind can dismiss the evil and horror of what is questionable in it's possibility of occurrence. It is much harder to see the evil that men hold in the hearts and act on and say it couldn't happen. Highly recommend to those who enjoy being taken to the edge, but watch with someone!