Nothing special

Rating: 4/10 (22 January 2006)

I'm amazed that this film is getting so many high reviews, particularly as it rips off so many horror films that have gone before. For example...the the ominous heartbeart sound...ripped off from John Carpenter's "The Thing". The scene in the hospital where she's running down the corridor...Hellraiser anyone? Then the "monsters" themselves are a complete rip off of the mentally unbalanced guy in the British horror "Creep". If you've seen this film you'll see what I mean. Well if you find a guy prancing around with a bit of make-up and really bad choppy editing so you can hardly see what's happening scary, good for you.
The actresses were great to be fair, I just feel that nothing inventive was done much here.
My advice, if you want a real scary horror, go and see one of the Asian horrors like "Cello", "The Shutter", "Ju-on" or for real suspense "The Thing". This is a "jumpy" film in the style of "I know what you did last summer" and all those type of films. It is not scary or a horror, I would describe it more as a slightly suspenseful thriller. Conclusion, good acting but bad unoriginal realisation and shameless stealing of ideas from other films and so 4/10 from me.