A blood bath I never wanted to take

Rating: 2/10 (6 September 2006)

Let's get started, when I first saw the preview's for this I found it laughable. A mother loses her daughter and must go to Hell to retrieve her. However then I started hearing people saying how spectacular it was. Well I decided to wait for the DVD release none-the-less and I'm glad I did. This movie wouldn't even be worth the $1 theater. Mind you I did not make the mistake of wasting my hard earned money on this. I made my neighbor waste her's then I borrowed it.
The movie starts out fairly decent and goes downhill from there. I'd just like to take this moment to say that if your child is having nightmares, sleepwalking to the edge of cliffs and calling out the name of a ghost town do not, under any circumstances, go there! When Rose first enters the town it does look promising, it's creepy, it's deserted, and it's raining ash. Then all of a sudden those alarms that make you want to cut off your ears begin ringing. She follows who she thinks is her daughter into the basement of some building. I honestly think if it was her daughter the kid would have stopped, anyways, suddenly things change. She is walking through a maze of gates and heat, much like some sort of sweat shop. Next thing you know she finds half of a man strung up on one of these gates, and then these molten midgets start groping her. I have yet to find what is scary about this aside from the CGI. I'll admit there were some half decent CGI effects, which is why I gave this two stars. The movie monsters just get worse and worse. Like the guy with a large triangular head and giant knife, the over-sized roaches, the zombie janitor who appears to be doing yoga, the armless thing that spites black goo, and yes they've saved the best for last, the Thriller nurses. I kept waiting and waiting for the song to start playing, but alas I was let down yet again.
The movie is very broken, it takes you down a road of pain and misery, dragging you over barbed wire, open flame, barbed wire, knives, and yes more barbed wire. The main weapon of choice in this film seems to be barbed wire. This movie is straight out of the twisted mind of someone who should consider checking themselves into the local asylum. Since when did barbed wire become related to the devil? People need to learn that children, and witchcraft films have been overdone. Take The Ring, mix in the worst witchcraft film in your mind and set them on fire, you will have this movie.
This film left a lot of things unexplained, like how exactly did they pass through into the world they were stuck in? When did that occur? Why did it take the cop with them? Why was this town never touched after the night of the fire?
DVD worthy? Well if you really really want to see this, which I suppose if you enjoy self inflicted pain then this is probably your cup of tea. I'd say borrow it, don't buy it, and don't rent it. Why not rent it you ask? Even if you have one of those $1 rental places? Because as I said in the beginning it's not worth it.