Scary and very flawed.

Rating: 3/10 (28 April 2006)

First off, you people reading so much into this film need to think again. Confusing does not necessarily mean deep. Donnie Darko and the Machinist come to mind. Confusing for the sake of being confusing--so the audience will think, Wow, I don't get it, so it must be brilliant. Lynch can get away with this, but not many other directors can. Maybe Chronenberg. Gans has fallen to the level of Uwe Boll in this film.
Yes, it was terrifying. Twice. Those burning baby things almost made me sh*t my pants, but only because the sound was so deafeningly booming, it was almost in the range of the brown noise.
The CGI was mediocre at best, a little bit better than the game. And that really takes you out of a horror movie. Ooh, those graphics are really scary. Never heard anyone say that before. Made me long for the days when Harryhausen's clay animation from Clash of the Titans was state of the art.
The game was a lot scarier. Because you are the character. You are immersed in the game. You don't want to die. In the movie, I didn't care if whats-her-name (that's how much I cared for her character) lived or died.
Also, why so many little girls? And what the f*ck was with Red Pyramid? I thought the little girl's vengeance created all that (and wouldn't that be a useful skill?), so where did he come from? The ending was super lame, also. If they were going to end it with Rahda and her daughter still in that other plane or dimension or the mist or whatever, they should have at least turned that air-raid siren on and had the screen fade to black. That would have been the sh*t, because that siren was the scariest part of the freaking movie.