Gripping. Very gripping.

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2002)

This was the first movie that I have seen in many years (since watching Alien and Aliens on video as a kid with a bunch of people), that has been able to ... scare me.
It had excellent build up, great realism -- and was just damned creepy ! Top-notch entertainment as far as I am concerned. No idea through-out the movie what would happen next or how things would turn out.
I am someone that likes non-standard endings. I like it when things don't turn out well, when the "bad guys win", so to speak. But I found myself toward the end of this movie thinking deeply that I didn't want the bad thing to befall them, and I really wasn't sure if it would or not. It's rare these days to find a movie [at least with a suspenseful one like this] where you really do care about the characters, this one fits the bill.
I gave it a 9.5 in my head after watching it in theater, and I gave it a 10 on here. Definitely worth watching ... and make sure that the lights are out, and the sound is turned up loud.