The Most Over-Rated Movie of the Decade

Rating: 2/10 (22 August 1999)

My expectations were understandably high from the hype. I paid >$9.50 (the going rate here) and couldn't have been more >disappointed. It's not scary. OK the last 2 minutes are mildly scary, but not even grab the arm rest scary. The acting is bad. They don't seem like real people. It's not believable. I can suspend disbelief, but the things the characters do are unrealistic. It's boring! It goes from incredibly boring (during the days) to just plain boring (at night), etc., ad nauseam. I wanted to leave, but was hoping for an old fashioned slasher movie ending where theses annoying characters were butchered. It's horribly shot. It does not look like a real documentary student film. I've known film students and seen student films. The camera is way too shaky. Real documentaries and student films do not look like this. It should have been a 7 minute short on Saturday Night Live and then it would only have been fair. 1:20 or however long it was (it seemed like I was in the theater the as long as they were in those woods) was much too long. That night I went to a bar and told everyone I spoke to not to see it. Most of them already had, and didn't like it (only one did).