Calling it a "pathetic waste of good film" would be kind...

Rating: Null/10 (31 October 2002)

*SPOILERS* Oh holy Lord, my job is going to be to save some of you the wretchedness of this movie... IT MAKES NO SENSE! I was hoping it all would come together in the end... nope, never did. It left me with quite a collection of unanswered and unanswerable questions such as... Who made the tape? Where did the tape come from? Why did Mr.Morgan wait 20-something years to kill himself? Why did he find in necessary to plug every appliance in the house into one socket in the bathroom? Wouldn't have sitting in a tub with a toaster done the same thing? Why did the horse go crazy on the boat? What did that scene have to do with the rest of the movie? Why, if her daughter was "all she ever wanted," did Anna Morgan throw a bag over her head and toss her into a well? What was the deal with the nosebleeds? Why was this considered a horror movie? By the time the creepy little girl (whom they pulled straight from "The Exorcist") crawled out of the TV, I had to laugh. The girl sitting next to me called everything before it happened. It was the most predictable, boring piece of {expletive deleted here} I have ever had the misfortune of viewing. And the thing that still nags me about it is the well. The Morgans lived on the island all their lives, and Anna Morgan killed her daughter there. Therefore, one would assume the well was on that island. It shows the main character driving back from the island to that log cabin in the woods ON THE MAINLAND and then they find the well under one of those cabins... did the well migrate? Apparently so. Or were the editors just too dumb to catch such a mistake? This movie ripped off three other horror movies (that I counted). The little girl from "The Exorcist", the little creepy genius boy from "The Omen" and the fingernails in the well (from the girl trying to climb out), they didn't even bother change anything about that. It was ripped STRAIGHT from "Silence of the Lambs". Hmm, interesting... all the movies they stole from were REAL horror movies. The only thing that was relied on to hold this movie together was the jump-out-at-you parts. Even those didn't make me jump... I dunno, maybe I'm just not easily scared. Oh, and another thing? Why did the little boy lay into his mother about "helping" the little girl? He was going on and on about how she's going to keep killing people now. Wasn't she gonna keep killing anyway? What difference would it make if she was "free"? And what was the deal with the fly? Can we say "desperate attempt to try and make this movie have some sort of creepy element so maybe the viewers will overlook the lack of plot"?