I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, and I was really disappointed...

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2002)

Several people recommended this film to me, and I must say I was really anticipating it. Perhaps that anticipation helped fuel my dislike for this film. I am SO bored with the recent slew of films which seem to have this same basic premise... The only one which I thoroughly enjoyed was the subtitled French Film, "A Pure Formality". At least back in 1996 it made me interested.
One friend told me that this film was very scary. In fact they had trouble sleeping afterward. I find that almost laughable now... Once you discover the stale theme (and sadly I was about 15 minutes into the movie and I almost turned it off), then the "scary" scenes (all three or four of them) become almost senseless.
I also got rather bored with the plot apart from the overplayed "twist". How many times can the woman mistreat her children and complain about being trapped in the house in the first half of the movie? I felt like the makers of this movie made it more for the stumps in the audience instead of people with minds. At least "The Sixth Sense" didn't keep repeating itself...