ending

Rating: 7/10 (18 August 2006)

This film needed a more climactic ending. When the kids first get to the house, I thought, "nice touch." But nothing that happens in the house is freakier or really much worse than what was happening before (except that the characters finally get killed, presumably). Say what you want about horror movies being freakier when you "don't see" the horror in question (although I would argue this is a formula invented in old horror movies by very artistic directors that does not work well in every situation)--but SOMETHING more needed to happen here--another person/thing in the house who we never FULLY see, for instance. Even a bit more of an extended shot of whatever had happened to Mike would have made this better.