Surreal horror movie

Rating: 7/10 (25 June 2006)

I expected really goofy, coming from a video game and all, but it was OK. Lots of metal+unskinned flesh monsters, visceral emotions linked with females and their mother-child connections, insane cult worshipers, this film has it all.
The plot is a little confusing, though, and it is all because the story would have been really simple if at all logical. The atmosphere is good, with creepy bloody networks growing all over the place after a strange siren call and a constant ashy rain. The idea of a ghost town sitting on top of perpetually burning coal mines is not bad either.
All and all, I think it is a movie that was intended to both audiences, male and female. Alas, women will not watch it because they don't get married in the end and men won't get it because it's all about mothers trying to find their daughters.
Besides, once you see Alice Krige having a part in the movie, you know where evil is at :) In conclusion, I think it's a fun flick for horror fans. Could have been more gory and less "devily" and with a little less female screams, but all and all it's OK.