More hype than anything

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2002)

This movie isn't even all that scary. I suppose it would be scary for a 14 year old girl perhaps, but for anyone who's seen a lot of movies in their time, there's nothing new here. It was just a bunch of cheap shot scare gags, and horror movie cliches. It seems they were trying to go for the "I don't know what's going on, but it sure is scary!" type of fright, but it didn't work for me. I knew what was going on: The director was trying to scare me. I couldn't lose myself in the movie because the scares were being forced upon me instead of drawing me in.
The scariest movies are the kind of movies that show you a dark place and let you wander in of your own accord. This movie just kept sticking stuff in my face and saying "Boo! Scary, huh?"
I'm not a 14 year-old girl. That kind of stuff doesn't work on me. Sorry.
I probably would have enjoyed this movie more if not for the hype it got. "The scariest movie ever! I couldn't believe it!" I went in expecting too much I guess. If I would have heard nothing about it I could have at least judged it on it's own merits. But hey, whether or not it lives up to the hype is irrelevant. I paid to go and see it. That's all that matters to them in the end.