I always knew my tv would get me.

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2003)

This is a very scary film about people who die seven days after watching a mysterious videotape. It's been compared to "The Sixth Sense" and that's a fair statement. Both films involve death and extrasensory perception, and both involve someone reaching out from the grave to the living.
The story is about a reporter, Naomi Watts, who discovers that her niece died at the exact same moment as her boyfriend and another couple. Upon some investigation, she discovers that all four watched this videotape together. She tracks the tape down and watches it herself, and then the phone rings and a little girl's voice tells her she has seven days to live.
I don't want to give away any more of the plot or the ending, but suffice it to say that it's a scary ride. The mood of the film is enhanced by the spooky images throughout, of scenes where time is warped. You're given little clues during the woman's search for what's behind the video, but the ending is surprising nonetheless.
It's a good horror film. And wouldn't you know it, about five minutes after I turned off my television set and was standing alone in an empty house thinking about what I'd just seen, the tv turned itself back on ...... (true)
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