oh, my God!

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2004)

I've seen some of the other reviews here and while I can appreciate people's different perceptions of a film, I just don't understand how anyone can find anything even remotely scary (or redeeming) about this movie. The only thing I felt was irritation. First, none of the characters are likeable at all(I've read people raving about Brodie's village idiot and I suppose that makes him a good actor, but still an idiot and hardly likeable), then there's the dialogoue, which if it were in the era the movie wants you to think it is would at least be explicable, the plot itself with blind people traversing god knows how far through the woods and not getting lost, the Brotherhood of the Wolf ripoff, I can't even begin to list the things about this movie that made me dislike it. I wanted to leave and get my money back! AND, I spent like 3 days watching advertisements and trailers for MORE bad movies! Oh, and let's not forget the hysterical(and by hysterical, I don't mean funny, I mean borne of hysteria)romance element, that will leave you either speechless or groaning. What a waste! Oh, the trees at the beginning were pretty cool, but everything else was like kryptonite. When Hurt is showing his daughter the shed and telling her "try not to scream" I said to myself "I'm trying as hard as I can!" This gets a "la bomba" out of 10.