Maybe I'm just too idealistic

Rating: 4/10 (21 October 2012)

One thing that will turn me off to a movie faster than just about anything is (pointless) child death. This movie is just full of scene after scene of children dying. Although they generally don't show the grisly details, very little is left to the imagination. Now I'm not saying that a kid can't ever die in a movie, but this seemed rather gratuitous and in large part unnecessary. While it is 'horrifying' as per the genre, it is in a way that I personally don't find so much frightening as just vile, crude, and almost vexatious. It is the sort of thing that just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. On the whole the movie was fairly well done. The special effects were good, the acting was decent, the score was well-fitted, and the story was intriguing, but the movie looses a LOT of points in my book for the above reason.