So there's gory things and...?

Rating: 3/10 (28 April 2008)

When my friend got this movie out of her room, my initial reaction to the cover was "Oh, a horror film. Lovely." However, upon watching it, I rapidly came to the conclusion that it was not a horror film, but instead a "drama." However, the fact that it was not a horror film did not necessarily make it a good movie. About halfway through the movie, I came to the conclusion that the same theme had been repeating throughout the entire movie - she is in a town, it gets dark, things attack. Lather, rinse, repeat. As far as I could tell, there was no plot beyond "Shadow creatures BAD." So, when a plot finally did manifest itself, it seemed lame and tacked on. The flashback scene seemed especially pointless. While the back story it provided was important, it could have been giving in a better medium than flickering film memory.
In short, this movie has little to no plot until the end, at which point it really doesn't matter anymore.