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Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2012)

TCITW is a much-needed refreshment, in a genre that is dominated by clones. It's a sort of tribute to all types of horror films, a semi-parody, and a wild, imaginative, unpredictable ride, all rolled into one. All those who pathetically attempt to trash this film, futilely trying to find something to nitpick about, have to be out of their silly little minds. There are plot-twists, there's an original premise, violence galore, and a wonderful finale. What do you want more? A B-J from the movie? So if you're a deluded creature that is forcing yourself to hate this film just because another great horror film was finally made, and that annoys/upsets you for some reason, be my guest: I can smell your desperation from a thousand miles away. Haters of TCITW are the same people who rank "Avatar" as a masterpiece.
For those of you who knew the essential premise/plot in advance, you only have yourselves to blame; I never watch trailers, nor do I care for the very staged/scripted/moronic interviews with actors/directors while they're hyping flicks, talking about what an "honor it was to work with him" and about how "generous" their co-stars were. Hence any movie can surprise me - provided it does actually have surprises. I knew absolutely nothing about TCITW, aside from the spoiler-devoid movie poster and the unusually high IMDb rating (for a horror flick), which actually made me suspect that this might be a major piece of crap, given this site's track-record i.e. taking into consideration how the average movie-going zombie "thinks" and votes.
Even the obligatory comic-relief sidekick isn't half-bad. I can't remember the last time that an annoying buffoonish horror-film clown had an iota of a quality gag coming out of him. This one is interesting and actually serves a purpose in the story. And he doesn't spit one-liners all the time, smirking like a cretin, but actually shows real fear when a situation calls for it.
TCITW gets a point off for the absolutely ridiculous wolf-kissing scene, and for including the vastly overrated, amazingly ugly Sigourney Weaver. As if it weren't bad enough that she infested four "Alien" movies and "Ghostbusters". Retire the damn nepotistic 6-foot witch already! Let her play mothers of trolls in half-a**ed fantasy Disney flicks.
I would also have edited the movie in such a way as to give the viewer more time to believe that they're actually watching yet another "Evil Dead" re-hash. The introductory scene with the lab people gives away little, admittedly, serving more to confuse than to reveal anything, but it does hint that the events surrounding the five "teens" aren't what they seem. I would also have taken out the invisible force-field bird-disintegration scene; that way, when the "hunk" runs into it his demise would come as a total shock. In fact, I wouldn't have revealed the existence of the underground labs until the first half-hour is over. But this isn't a major criticism; no movie is perfect.
There is definite regret that the movie finishes just as the end of the world is starting, but I suppose that something does have to be left to the imagination.