unique, but that's about it

Rating: 5/10 (9 October 2000)

This movie had a lot of hype to live up to. Worse than not living up to it's hype, however, is the fact that the movie doesn't live up to its own suspense level that it builds up as it goes. There's nothing worse than a let down ending for a horror movie.
There were moments in the movie where I thought it was going to go somewhere really terrifying; but in the end, it turns up that it's more like a haunted house, a little startling and scary while your experiencing it, but nothing to think about after it's over.
The movie has a certain edge to it that is brought on by the manner of filming, and the looseness with the scripting, but those same points were also points of weakness at times. It's interesting, up to a certain point, but there's a reason why most movies are not filmed and scripted so loosely.
Bad dialog and shaky cameras can get pretty annoying.