Not Scary But an Okay Movie

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2012)

The movie starts out like your stereotypical horror movie- teens are joking around and having fun; about to go on vacation.
You have your main character- the little innocent girl whom you just HAVE to feel sorry for. The whore who is as dumb and self centered as can be. The idiot jock with muscles but no brains. The stoner kid/loser/loner/weirdo all wrapped into one whom you just KNOW would never actually hang out with these type of people. And the brain/the nerd who thinks things through at all times.
For quite some time it's your average movie about kids being killed in a cabin in the woods.
But little things like the weird company and computers and people watching these kids, the odd force field that kills a bird, and chemicals being sprayed to alter a person's brain make you think "Okay then.. whatever.."
It's not until close to the end when the lady mentions "if we don't do this then the ancients will rise.." and that the people who are partying in the office get a call whilst celebrating for some unknown reason that you finally scratch your head and say "What the hell is this crap?"
The movie was pretty boring and you don't get the weird twist until the end, when, SURPRISE! The virgin AND the stoner are alive! That's when it finally becomes semi-interesting enough to kind of wake you up.
But, THEN, it's just kind of like "UH... WHAT?!!" Because from the time that you discover the stoner kid is alive- the rest of the movie almost doesn't make sense.
The facility below them houses a series of monsters and nightmares that the people in the facility used to try to get sacrifices. Basically- every culture around the world uses this technique to keep "ancient gods" who used to inhabit the Earth from waking up and destroying everything.
This part is the ONLY good part- In my opinion. Mainly cause the mass deaths of people at the hands and tentacles and whatever you wanna call em.. of monsters and creatures that are ode to famous creations from books, movies, TV shows, games, etc.. is just AWESOME!
That- and the whole Ancient Gods waking up at the end and killing everyone thing- Is the twist. And while it was cheesy and ended abruptly, I felt it was quite different than a lot of the same ole same ole stuff from today.
People who say the movie was predictable can't POSSIBLY have guessed that the whole plot was centered around keeping ancient gods asleep by sacrificing the stereotypical young adults from movies in a computerized and biological fashion by using props to call upon monsters from a vast assortment of creatures stashed in an underground facility and that every culture has to do this so that humans don't fail and that the ancients don't wake up to destroy Earth.
I felt the movie was OKAY. Not great, not scary, not stupid. But, Okay. It was definitely worth either Red-Boxing it or Netflix-ing it. But not seeing it in theaters.
While I did semi-like it- I red-boxed it. And was glad I made that decision after hearing what people were saying.