Amazingly Tense Thriller

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2004)

It's hard for me to comprehend the amount of negative comments I've read on here about this movie. From almost start to end I was on the edge of my seat, nerves stretched as taught as wire and at one point I literally jumped out of my seat - something no other movie has ever managed to do (and I wasn't alone in this). OK, some cynics might think that the whole premise of the village (the place not the movie), once it is revealed in the course of the film, is rather twee and rather far fetched, but it isn't really when you consider peoples like the Amish. It's only a small jump from them to this. So far I never met anyone amongst my friends and colleagues who didn't think this film any less than excellent - maybe it just goes down well in the UK... 9/10