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Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2004)

What tries to be a horror movie winds up being a horrible movie. What could have been a great thirty-minute TV episode is stretched into a long, boring feature length film with silly bumps in the night. This movie is not a thriller, is not frightening, and is not credible. It's childish. The script is laughable. The only redeeming factor of the movie is the great acting by Bryce Dallas Howard, although I was confused on whether her character was blind or not until later in the picture. When will Shyamalan stop writing the screenplay and let a professional handle it? Shyamalan had a great movie in Sixth Sense, but he's a one-hit wonder. He's had three strikes since then, and you know what that means. . .