This one stays with you!

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 1999)

I went to see this film in DC this past weekend. What a great experience! I think I personally overhyped the movie a little bit, but it was still an excellent movie. During the movie I was not as scared as I had expected to be. There were times that I gasped, closed my eyes, and felt my heart race, but somehow I expected more. Word had it that people were running from the theatre screaming and getting sick at the showing before ours. What I didn't expect though, was the very gradual sense of horror that grew in the hours after I left the movie theatre. What I saw in the last few moments of screen time stayed with me, in a way I have never experienced before. All in all, as an experience, this film did not scare me the way I thought it would, but it did creep and freak me out in a way I never imagined possible.
As to the film itself, the gritty, amature feel of the camera work was amazing! The acting bowled me over as well. This was an incredibly well made film in addition to being an experience unto itself. Maybe I am being unrealistic, but this little film deserves recognition from the Academy.