Great Student Film. A complete rip off at the theater.

Rating: 2/10 (21 October 2002)

The concept of making a movie from the spliced together films of a missing film crew, is a very clever concept. And if you are in a college film class, I think you would be deserving of all of the praise and accolades possible. However, when you release that student film as a movie, then you are ripping off people to present it as a real movie. There is about enough material for a good 20 - 30 minute film, maybe. But, stretching this one act play into a movie made it tedious and redundant. And while the idea is clever, it wears thin when stretched out. Everyone has their own tastes, but I was surprised by the number of people who actually found the movie scary. There are some things going bump in the night... but... nothing to really suggest you couldn't have defended yourself with a nice pointy stick. I'm usually hiding under my coat in horror movies, but I was looking at my watch as this one was winding down. *Yawn*