"That's it?!?"

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 1999)

This is a comment I overhead from a female audience member as the movie ended. I must confess, I felt somewhat the same way. This movie has been "hyped" so much, that it has almost become a "don't miss" movie -- and the viewing I attended was nearly full. Although the film did create interest, and build a certain amount of tension, it never-the-less at times had the feel of an episode from MTV's "Real Life." I mean, a lot of it was about the interactional dynamics among the group members. The supernatural, for me, was almost secondary. The ending is somewhat creepy, but was also hard to follow . . . the cheap, home-movie feel became a bit tiresome after a while. I told my daughter, on the way to the theater, "There is no way this movie is going to live up to the expectation." -- and, it didn't.