David Lynch ruined this movie.

Rating: 5/10 (4 November 2002)

Naomi Watts still think he's in Mulholland Drive, infusing the otherwise possibly frightening movie with laughable Lynchian melodrama and total lack of subtle human emotion toward her own son, own sister, own friend. Who cast this movie? Even her little son was an irritating and unpleasant-looking character. Contrast with the Shining's Danny. In the hands of a competent female lead who faded behind the material and allowed the story to unfold for us, rather than causing us to watch her overact, particularly with a son marginally concern-worthy, this could have been a top-notch horror movie. As it is, one never really gets beyond Naomi's facial reactions. Pity to have wasted the script so.