Still giving me the chills......!!!

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2000)

I am such a complete wus! I'm a 32 year old male who's seen the lot - 'The Evil Deads', 'I spit on your Graveses', 'The Cannibal Shnannibal' schlock nonsense, but THIS FILM truly gives me the willies (that's an English expression). I cant explain it.
I saw it at the Edinburgh festival last August - its British premier. I had been to the web-site (which also freaked me out) and new the story and background. I was expecting it the be a whole heapin' lot scarier than it actually was. At the time.
As the months have gone by the intensity of the film has gnawed itself indelibly into my brain. Images and sounds around me constantly remind me of it - birds in trees, babies crying in echoing shopping centres, conversations on crackly mobile phones, playing Silent Hill on the playstation. And its all down to 5 minutes of film culminating in that terrifying final shot - that blurred, out of focus (nearly out of frame) image still sends shivers down my back.
It's a fear that what I can't see may actually be worse than what I can. Show me the full gore, give me traditional jumps and jolts, let rivers of blood run from the screen - just don't make me go into that basement again.