The Scariest I've ever seen.

Rating: Null/10 (24 January 2003)

I knew that this movie would be scary the moment I walked in. Maybe it was the TV spots saying this was the scariest movie since the Exorcist. Or the fact that everyone and their mothers was saying that this was scary. But after I saw this movie, I had trouble sleeping that night, and it takes a LOT to scare me. This movie scared me, and caused my girlfriend to sleep in her parents' room that night.
This movie doesn't waste any time in scaring the living crap out of the audience. In the beginning, the film builds up to a climax when the phone rings, because we think someone hostile is on the phone and something will happen, but its just the girl's mom. All that tension built up to nothing. Then, all of a sudden, some of the freakiest things ever captured on film happen.
The way this movie works is that this process is repeated so that the rest of the movie, the viewer is a nervous wreck. The film also surprises. The scene with the body in the closet that I still can't get out of my head. It was totally unexpected, and I nearly had a heart attack because of it.

Our imaginations get the better of us, and that is how this movie works. We imagine all these horrible things that are about to happen, and then they don't. But when we let our guard down, the horrible things we were thinking about happen. And it all culminates in the final scene. And that final scene is something so scary, that I didn't know things like that were possible.

I haven't seen The Exorcist, except on TV, but if it is scarier, then there must be some REALLY tripped out crap in that. This movie is definetly a must see.
9/10
(Don't let the PG-13 rating fool you. This movie is NOT for young kids.)