Thought-provoking, entertaining, unexpected twists

Rating: 7/10 (9 February 2005)

Chromium, if this is the WORST movie you've ever seen, you must not have seen many movies in your time. I'm jealous! I found this movie interesting with a cool twist that I didn't see coming. At its core is a traditional love story, along with exploring the psychology of fear in a community where the world around them seems beyond explanation. When you think of all we know in modern society, all that we have explained and can control, you wonder how fear influenced the lives of those who existed in a more "innocent" time. It begs the question, is it better to know, or to hold onto innocence?
{SPOILER}
"It sounds a lot like a 20th century guy writing what he guesses 18th century people might have talked like"
Um, YEAH, that is the point. These are people who grew up in the 20th century and are pretending it's 1897. If you don't see the end then you think the dialogue is weird and the monsters are cheesy-looking. When you find out what's really going on, it all makes sense.