...now *that* was truly terrifying (not?)

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2000)

Not the traditional horror flick at all. Certainly not scary in the usual sense... It's basically a psychological suspense-thriller based on the unknown; the obvious occult bits simply appeal to our tendency to associate the unknown with the supernatural (for all I care the antagonists could be a bunch of downright sadistic and smart pranksters). So the expected chills were there, but they were mainly lurking in the back of my mind while I found myself thinking aloud over their actions (at one point I was laughing with ridicule at the whole situation; now *that* was truly terrifying). Ending smells slightly of a cop-out, but would make good fan-theory fodder. Good film to catch, if only for the novelty of it (even if the nausea-inducing camera work didn't help the fact that I'd just had my meal) but by no means a great one. (7/10)