Gave me Nightmares!

Rating: 8/10 (27 October 2003)

(Maybe a small spoiler.) Wow, what else can I say? I have watched many horror movies over my 40 years of life from Hitchcock's great masterpiece `The Birds' To the some of the more recent Teen slasher movies prevalent recently. And in all that time I have never had a movie wake me the following night with Nightmares. This movie did exactly that! Whether it was the overall creepiness of the movie or the fact that it touched some dark fear buried deep in my subconscious I don't know, but the fact is after watching this movie last night I awakened four times to horrible nightmares three of which were directly connected to the movie. As I sit here today bleary-eyed writing this I think back to the house I grew up in which had an old abandoned cistern under it that our kitchen had been built over. I used to have a phobia as a child of falling through the kitchen floor into the depths of this black watery hole never to been seen again. Maybe some of the scenes in this movie touched that long buried fear. On a creepy scale of 1-10 this movie is a 15!!!! Kudos to director Gore Verbinski for scaring the crap out of me! 8 out of 10 Stars.(2 star deduction for the ambiguous ending.)