Lovely horror film, but ...

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2006)

Hats off for an unusual, genuinely scary piece of gore. But there are some serious inconsistencies. OK, the 2-endings shenanigans means all sorts of interpretations are up for grabs, but there are more practical problems as well. If these mutant-things are supposed to be real, and not a figment of Sarah's imagination, then what do they eat? The suggestion is that they come out of their cave at night and hunt deer and things. But how? They are blind. Blind creatures like that would make terrible hunters. You can get away with sonar if you are a bat and eat insects, but an elk would just spot them a mile off then have a good laugh as the mutants ran around bumping into trees. We saw that they weren't terribly good at hunting even in their own element ... lightly-armed (and terrified) people were perfectly capable of killing them with minimal bother. As monsters they were, frankly, a bit rubbish. But a good film nonetheless.