What were they thinking!!! 10 reasons why this is a flop!

Rating: 1/10 (26 November 2007)

I don't know where to begin with this train wreck. People were booing at the end. There were all of seven people in the theatre on Friday night at 8:00, by the end of the movie four had left. Four people (including me) booed. Is that pathetic or what! I didn't even see the others exit. So my experience was creepier than the movie itself.
1) The casting of Drayton: All wrong. This man has no persona, a pretty boy at best.
2) The CGI What the heckers?!. I get better quality in Halo 3. Those tentacles. hahah!
3) Comical, but unintentional. It didn't have a sense of humor about itself. Too serious.
4) It was a stage play, not a movie.
5) Plot points were telegraphed minutes before they developed -- no surprises.
6) I just wasn't chilled or frightened just mildly bored.
7) Why do people try to make topical statements in horror films, just scare me.
8) I could have been doing my laundry.
9) The characters were soooo one dimensional.
10) I loved the novella. I've waited years for this. Color me disappointed.
Wrapping up my two cents I'd like to something about the end. Oh, yes I hated it, but I think Frankie and the Suits made a timing error. I believe if this had been released during Halloween weekend, I might not have minded too much about the new ending. As it happens though, we as an audience invest two hours into these cardboard characters only to see them offed (stupidly) -- on Thanksgiving frigging Weekend with Christmas just around the corner. Bad Timing, dudes.
What were they thinking!!!???
addendum: 12-20-12. Saw it again. Hated it even more.