It went from interesting to ridiculous...

Rating: 4/10 (18 August 2012)

Are you kidding? This was one of the worst horror movies I have had to sit through.
The story is about five people heading out to a remote cabin in the mountains, isolated from the outside world. During the stay in the rundown cabin, a cellar door opens up on its own, and the people go into the cellar to discover what is going on. Here they find a book from which one of them reads aloud some ancient Latin words. With these words read aloud, zombies are unleashed, as is something else entirely...
What? Wait, let's back it up here. Can anyone say "Evil Dead"? This was either tribute to the cult classic or a shameless and utter rip off. It was everything repeated from "Evil Dead", but just added with some extra stuff.
This movie's plot line and story was such a lame copy that it was an embarrassment to witness and a pain to behold. There wasn't a single scary moment in the entire movie. And when you finally are let in on what is going on, you just sit there is disbelief and shake your head at the ludicrous ridiculousness of it all.
The characters in the movie were so stereotypical that it was bordering on being generic characters just copy+pasted into the movie. As in any slasher movie, you have a jock, a nerd, a virgin, party-lover, and a girl with no morals. Could it be any more stereotypical?
But it wasn't all bad, there were some good parts to the movie as well. There was some really great creature effects in the last third of the movie. Plus there was zombies - anything with zombies is a notch upward in my book. And the scene when Sigourney Weaver entered, that was just the high point of the movie, the most climatic scene in the entire movie. And finally, as the movie ended, Nine Inch Nails was being played. Oh, and not to forget that in the last 20 minutes or so, there is a great amount of gore and mayhem, which almost, just almost, makes it worth suffering through the entire movie just to watch. That was actually some of the best parts of the movie all together, at least it was what caught my interest.
This movie was nothing at all as to what I had expected it to be. And it was actually a rather boring and dull experience to sit through. A very anti-climatic movie, and once you are let in on what is going on there, the movie just goes from being boring to being downright ridiculous. I have nothing but respect and awe for the Great Old Gods, but this was just insulting.
If anything then the creature effects would make it worth watching the movie, or the less than 5 minutes that Sigourney Weaver is in it. Or for the fact that you have references to almost every slasher movie throughout the last 30 years stuffed into this movie. The rest of the movie is just a waste of time and effort. I am giving this movie a 4/10 rating; 1 point for Sigourney Weaver, 1 point for the creatures, 1 point for the bloodshed and gore in the last 20 minutes, and finally 1 point as the base minimum score that must be given. Had it not been for those, I would have opted for a 1/10 rating.