Root for the bad guy!!

Rating: 9/10 (3 May 2006)

This was, by-far, one of the best scary movies I've seen in a long time. It resembled a TOOL video. It had all the matching elements, twitchy dead people with sharp pointy weapons, smoldering tar babies, fire, blood, and the occasional disemboweled corpse or almost corpse anyway. The build was quick and long lasting. I found myself questioning the plight of the characters at the end of the film. The ending perplexed me as I tried to piece together the circumstances that lead to such a conclusion. There was also a bit of subtext, a quality you don't often find in thrillers. Such as, the lengths a mother would go through to save her child, was evil really evil or was were the "good" really bad...etc. I really liked the predominantly female cast. It added a greater emotion to the film, another rare trait of thrillers. Also, women can be far more vindictive, harsh, cruel, evil, than men, it's just in our nature. My only issue was the choice in costuming for the female cop. Her wardrobe was a bit distracting. Her skin tight leather pants and huge chest didn't really say authority, more like stripper. Don't get me wrong, she was hard core and kicked arse but her attire made her less believable as a police officer. I highly recommend this film.