the ultimate horror film

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 1999)

Got to see the prelim release of this at the Mayan theater in Denver on Friday night, and it became apparent to me that so many people missed the point of the movie by the number of people who were booing at the end. It seems so many people have to see a monster or have something jump out of the darkness to think a horror movie is good. If you're going with that idea in mind, you will be sorely disappointed. This isn't the kind of movie that really scares you when you watch it, but comes back to haunt you the next time you find yourself alone in the dark. Instead of showing a monster, you spend the whole movie imagining what it could be, and that constant imagining will stay with you long after you see it, scaring you each time you try to ponder what it might have been. I can honestly say that with the notable exception of "Seven", this is the only horror movie that's ever managed to scare me out of my mind...