Incredible piece of film making

Rating: 10/10 (6 November 2014)

Initially I was fairly surprised to see this film only sitting at only a 7/10 on IMDb, but then, having thought about it and the demographic that probably reviews films and maybe their expectations about what this film was on the way into the cinema - its probably not that surprising.
Its difficult to write a review about this film without giving a huge spoiler, and I really don't want to do that because to do so robs the film of some of its power... but let me just say that this film isn't really a horror film at all in many ways. If you go in expecting a horror and some mindless entertainment - then this isn't what you are going to get or at least this isn't the core of the film - this is just its clothing. I've watched a lot of horror films and this trumps every single one of them by a country mile but not as a horror film - in that sense its fairly ordinary and at no point did it scare me at any rate.
I re-watched this shortly after my first viewing, and knowing the premise of the film at the start - made the second watch a different experience - I was fully able to understand what the film was really trying to say.
Its an incredible piece of work from start to finish, on many many levels.