A decent, disturbing movie

Rating: 8/10 (25 April 2005)

This movie was no masterpiece of acting, duologue, or plot. But it was quite effective at disturbing me, and I couldn't stop thinking about it for days afterward. The sets in the movie are creepy, whether it's a poor guy's dumpy hole, a rich doctor's apartment, a hospital or a police station. The death scenes are disturbing and gave me a delightfully sick feeling in my stomach. The ending was a total surprise. Without giving anything away, I never saw it coming; that could be because (once I thought about it) it didn't make much sense, and was a pretty gaping plot hole, one of many; but the movie, IMHO, did it's job effectively: I was pretty scared and disturbed for a couple hours, and in fact for a while afterward (perhaps I will never get over it!)