A horrible mish-mash of almost every horror/slasher genre

Rating: 2/10 (21 August 2012)

I grew up with "classics" such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Christine, Bad Taste, Phantazm etc. Even before my time audiences were treated to original movies like White Zombie, Dracula etc. Always something new always something of a muddled lens of the camera trough which director managed to have all of his creative shine get trough. It was back in the day when budgets were very tight an imagination of the writer/director had to account for a movie's success. Here however the movie not only goes trough a cliché routine of establishing this "just your average all-American teens" characters, but steadily strolls (or trolls perhaps?) trough all known horror genres really chewing trough pretty much every trick in the book. We are talking of a really low level here, no creativity what so ever. The part where my gag reflex went off was when I saw a very badly CG animated "eagle" fly above a steep cliff side. From there on it just rolled downhill. Almost every scene was predictable, the plot with a few exceptions had surprises in it and I give it a rating of 2 stars for making me laugh when I saw a unicorn impale a man. That was about the only part of the movie I enjoyed. The ending makes no sense, I am almost surprised they didn't rip that off any other movie... but I might be mistaking. IMHO the horror movies work best on kids and young adults. Not much can scare a grown person, but every once and a while come movies like Saw (NOT to be confused with its useless sequels) that makes the audience not only scared, not only sick to their stomach but also give a grand finale in the end that makes everyone scratch their heads in disbelief. This movie did none of that. I guess the high ratings come from either kids who are not critical of it at all, or people who just have no understanding of horror movies.