Oh my God.

Rating: 10/10 (21 August 1999)

I saw this movie last night and have never been so emotionally and physically affected by one movie in my entire life. It wasn't even the terror it installed in me or even the pity I had for the little boy, that made me actually sick to my stomach. It was the raw emotion in the acting and the images on the screen. I just wish that I had waited and rented this movie so I wouldn't have to sit in a theatre full of people who didn't like the uncomfortable and upsetting feelings and giggled uncertainly at the little boy with the hole in the back of his head. Oh yes, America, go ahead. Laugh at the dead little boy skipping off to find his father's gun. Oh isn't he SO amusing. F**k you all. anyways . . . moving on. :)
I was stunned by the beautiful and sickening (in the good way) displays of raw emotion in the movie. I had expected it to be just like "a scary movie." And sure there were times that it scared the hell out of me, but most often it made me cry. The first ghost, the woman in the kitchen was by far the most effective. When she whirled around screaming "No, dinner isn't ready yet, and you can't hurt me anymore!" I burst into uncontrollable sobs while the guy next to me laughed confusedly. The acting was so amazing, not only with stunning performances by the boy and child psychiatrist but the dead people too. I was haunted all night by the face of the little girl crouched under her bed and by the screams of the man trapped in the room. I left the theatre with a pounding headache, a gut wrenching stomach ache and images of the dead and suffering burned into my head. I went home and wished for once that I was one of those desenstized Americans who could see someone mentally decompose and giggle. I wanted to forget the feelings that I'd had. I wanted to be able to sleep. This movie is one of the best movies I have seen. With ingenius camera angles and images and the best acting I have seen in a film since SLC Punk! it is a haunting movie that will hopefully move you in ways you've never been moved before.